Page 34 of Regancy & Savior
I walked over and pulled her into my space before kissing her forehead. “I gotta run out, but I should be back later. Try to wait up for me.” When I looked down at her, she flashed me an expression that I couldn’t read.
“I’d hope you’re not about to go meet up with some bit?—”
“I’ma let Taurus know you called him some bitch too.”
Instead of responding like I thought she would, she nodded. “I’m just saying, Savior.”
“Fuck all of that. Are you gonna wait up?” I questioned, tilting her chin up so she was looking me in my eyes.
“I guess I could try to, huh?” She pursed her lips, sporting a playful expression.
I chuckled. “Fuck trying. You need to succeed. I don’t plan on being out long.” I technically wasn’t lying, because I didn’t really know what the deal was. I kissed her one last time before I went about my business.
It didn’t take me long to get to Che’s, because I had Beck do fifty on the streets and eighty on the expressway. When I got there, I was expecting to see the same building that was always there, but I saw the complete opposite. I was welcomed by burned debris that used to be Che’s chicken joint. Somebody had burned that bitch to the ground. Beck pulled into the parking lot where I spotted Taurus’s truck. He was standing leaned against it with a foul expression plaguing his face.
“You got beef with somebody, Savior?”
“Do you?” I questioned as I hopped out of the truck and looked around.
“Shit, if you don’t, then I don’t.” He shrugged his shoulders. “I’m so glad I had that shit moved yesterday. We would’ve been up shit’s creek.”
“You sure Che ain’t burn his own shit down?” I questioned. I never put shit past anybody, so I had to question that too.
“Good fucking question.” He pulled his phone out calling either Luke, Reggie, or Amil. They were somewhat our most-trusted workers since they’d been with us since we started the shit. Reggie had just stepped into Zay’s spot while Luke had been manning his territories westbound. They did a little extra when asked, but Amil grabbed people who needed to be grabbed and filled in if necessary. If I needed a motherfucker stuffed in a trunk, he was my first call.
Moments after Taurus hung up the phone, he glanced in my direction with a smirk. “Ya brother-in-law is gonna bring Che to that spot on Laramie. That mechanic shop.” He couldn’t even say that shit with a straight face. That motherfucker was bipolar and goofy as fuck. One minute, he was serious, and the next, he had all the jokes.
I shook my head. “What is wrong with you?”
“Not a damn thing. I just wonder how that goes over. You know you’re his boss, and you lay ne?—”
“One thing doesn’t matter to the other. What I have with Regancy ain’t got shit to do with her brother.”
He nodded with a big ass smile on his face. “And what do you have with the same female that you claimed you were about to ghost?”
“Man, fuck you. I need to be getting my ass back that way because her crazy ass thought I was bouncing on her for a bitch.”I shook my head. I thought back to the look she gave me when I said I was about to go.
“I knew she had that look!” Taurus damn near yelled. He had that expression like he’d just solved a problem or had an idea.
“What look?” I asked.
“ThatI’ll bust all yo’ windows and tell you I did that shitlook. That nigga Kareem said his bitch knocked his side mirrors off his truck and put them in her trunk. Shorty drove around with those bitches for about a year.”
“Kareem that cops from us?” I asked.
He nodded. “All I’m saying is be careful what you do to the crazy ones. They’ll have yo’ ass out here jumping every time a bitch speaks. That’s that real love, but it’ll drive you fucking nuts.”
I nodded, taking his words in. He was right, but I didn’t really need the advice. Wasn’t no female about to drive me there, and I wasn’t about to do it either.
We waited around for Amil to call and tell us to meet him at the shop, but when he did call, he said Che was nowhere to be found. The nigga had gotten ghost. He requested that we give him a few days and he’d find his ass, and we agreed. I was tryna get home anyway. When Beck dropped me off out front, I pulled out my phone and dialed Regancy to see if she was up.
“Yeah?” she answered in a sleep-induced tone.
“I thought you was staying up for me, mama.”
“I was, but I fell asleep when my mama picked up Kale and Bernard. Where are you?”
“On my way up to my place. Come up,” I responded.
