A Street Doctor's Virgin: Standalone

14. Quadir

14

Quadir

“ Y eah, this place is perfect,” Qua nodded after he finished touring the new home he planned to buy.

He knew that once he got his hands on Carmine, he didn’t plan to let him see the light of day again. If the mafia found out that he was behind the murder, then they were going to come at him with everything they had. While Qua didn’t want a war with the mafia, Grim was with all the shits. That was the very reason he was going to buy another house on the other side of the community that he already lived in. A lot of the mafia knew where he lived because they’d been inside of his medical suite. He wasn’t about to put himself or Saige at risk. If everything went off without a hitch and he wasn’t caught, then he’d simply let Saige have the new house.

“Great, you want to put an offer in?” The realtor, Kensley, looked at him.

“I want to purchase this home, straight cash, and I want to close on it ASAP.”

Her eyes widened then relaxed and she cleared her throat. “And to be perfectly clear, you do know the asking price is one point five, correct?”

“Get it to one point four, Kensley. I know you can do it. One point four, all cash, and I’m prepared to close as early as Friday.”

“Uht, okay,” she nodded with an approving look. “I’ll be in contact with you within a few hours.”

“Good,” he nodded as well and walked out the front door.

As he prepared to do the two-mile jog back to his house, his phone started vibrating in his pocket. He took it out and saw that it was April calling him. Since Saige had been staying at his place, he had been ignoring April for the most part. It was crazy to him that since Saige had been in his space every day, April didn’t even cross his mind. Sex hadn’t even been on his mind. All he wanted to do was spend time with Saige and continue to get to know her.

She was a breath of fresh air from all the other women he was used to dealing with. She was smart, sweet, and innocent. Over the last three weeks, he found himself attracted to her more and more each day. He went from not wanting to take her virginity to considering it.

“Yeah?” He answered after popping his Airpods in.

“Damn, it’s about time I get you on the line. You must be really busy these days.”

“I am, you need something?”

“Yes, daddy, I miss that dick and that mouth. I’m craving it,” she purred into the phone. “I want you to come fuck me in every hole. I can even call over Treasure so we can have some real fun.”

Usually, hearing April say that would make his dick rock hard. Treasure was their regular go to third, and she was even freakier and nastier than April was. For some reason though, this time hearing April talk dirty to him made him annoyed. Maybe it was because he was starting to grow infatuated with Saige’s innocence. Or he was really just over April. He wasn’t clear on which one was true.

“Nah, I ain’t gon’ be able to do that.”

She sucked her teeth hard. “And why the fuck not, Qua?”

“I’m good on you, April. I got a lot of shit going on, and I can’t be dealing with you too,” he told her before hanging up.

Knowing that she was going to call back until he answered, he went ahead and blocked her. He wasn’t about to even give her the opportunity to blow his phone up. Shuffling his playlist on Apple music, he slid his phone back in his pocket, started his workout on his Apple watch, and started his jog back home.

By the time he reached his front door, he was short of breath. The crisp, cool October air had taken his lungs hostage. While he paced back and forth trying to lower his heart rate, the front door opened, and Saige stepped out. It took everything in him to fight the erection he felt starting. She looked like an angel in her cream two-piece Nike jogger set she wore. Even with her being fully dressed, Saige still turned Qua on in the worst way.

“Good run?” She smiled at him, offering him a water bottle.

He took his Airpods out and gladly accepted the water. Popping the top, he chugged some then smiled back at her. “Yeah, it was straight. Thank you.”

“Mmhmm, can you take me back to my house? I need more clothes. Unless you’re going to let me return home?”

He chuckled because he knew that was her way of asking to go home. “I told you, ma, once I know Carmine isn’t a threat to you anymore then you are free to go back to your crib. That nigga ain’t wrapped too tight, and the last thing I want is for him to try and finish what he started. But yeah, I’ll take you. Let me grab my keys.”

“Got ‘em,” she held them up.

Qua laughed and took the keys from her hand. They slid inside his Range Rover and left.

“My mom called me today,” Saige told him as they traveled to their destination.

He glanced at her before putting his eyes back on the road. Saige had told him all about her tumultuous relationship with her mom. He didn’t like her mom either, just off the strength of her disrespecting Saige the way she had over the years.

“How’d that go?” He asked anyway.

She shrugged. “How it always goes. It ended with her calling me a light-skinned, uppity bitch.”

“Why you let her talk to you like that, Saige? Mom or not, you shouldn’t be letting nobody disrespect you,” he told her, trying to suppress his anger.

“I know,” she said quietly.

“Hey,” he looked at her as he came to a stop at a redlight. She looked up and locked eyes with him. “I’m not trying to be mean, but you have to stand up for yourself too. Don’t let her talk to you like that. You’ve been dealing with enough, on top of your job and seeing what those kids go through, so you don’t need her adding to that, aight?”

She nodded and sighed. “I know. She’s still my mom though, so it’s hard to just say fuck her. I mean, I can go months without speaking to her but somehow she always sucks me back in.”

“So don’t let her next time. Set your boundary with her and let that be it.”

“You’re right,” she smiled slightly. “Have you ever considered being a therapist?”

“Fuck out of here,” he laughed and pulled off.

Twenty minutes later, they were pulling into her driveway. Saige assured him that he didn’t need to go in with her, so he sat in the car and waited. His eyes surveyed the area and didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, so he figured she was fine. Ten minutes into waiting, his bladder started doing backflips from the bottle of water he chugged earlier. Shutting his car off, he grabbed his nine from the center console just in case and hopped out. As he rushed up to the door, he heard two gunshots fired from inside the house.

When he pushed the door open, he heard Saige whimpering and Carmine cussing her clean out. He sent Levi a 911 text with his location before creeping up the stairs. Standing outside of her bedroom, he drew his weapon and peeked around the door. He saw Carmine kneeling near Saige’s bleeding body.

“Look what you made me do, Saige,” Carmine said with tears running down his face. “Why wouldn’t you just listen? You were starting to act like Vicky, I had to put you back in line.”

“Carmine,” Qua called his name to get his attention.

The moment Carmine’s head jerked up in Qua’s direction, Q sent a single slug ripping through the middle of his forehead. Carmine’s body collapsed as blood poured out of his head, and Q rushed to Saige’s side.

“I’m here, ma, I’m here,” he told her, lifting her sweatshirt.

She’d been shot in the stomach and chest and was losing blood fast. Pulling his own jacket off, he applied pressure to the stomach wound.

“Qua,” she whispered his name as her eyes began to roll.

“Fuck!” He shouted.

Looking around, he knew there was nothing inside her home that would help him, help her. The nearest hospital was ten minutes away, so he scooped her up bridal style and carried her down the stairs. Just as he put her in the backseat, Levi pulled up with one of his workers, Ice.

“What the fuck happened?” Levi jumped out.

“Carmine shot her, I gotta get her to the hospital. He’s inside,” Q informed him. “Make him disappear, Levi.”

“I gotchu.”

They dapped each other up then Qua got inside his car and sped to the hospital. He kept glancing in the back to make sure that Saige was at least still alive. By the time they got to the hospital, she had slipped out of consciousness. He rushed into the ER and let them know what was going on. They immediately came to his car and transported her inside with promises to keep him updated. Feeling defeated, he took a seat and called Moon to let her know what had happened.

While he sat there, he prayed harder than he ever had that Saige was going to be okay. He didn’t want her taken away from him before he even had the chance to figure out what they had going on. If she died, there would be nothing and no one that would stop him from taking down the entire Sartori empire.