A Street Doctor's Virgin: Standalone

15. Saige

15

Saige

S aige blinked slowly as she opened her eyes. Looking around the dark room, she was confused about where she was. She saw the monitor to the right of her that was quietly beeping and figured out that she was in the hospital. When she turned her head, she saw Quadir to the left, sitting in a chair with his head leaned back. She figured he was asleep due to the slow rise and fall of his chest.

She lifted her hands and wiggled her toes to make sure everything was still functioning. She was relieved that she figured out where she was, but she didn’t know how she ended up there. Her chest and stomach were sore as hell.

“Quadir,” she called his name as loud as she could. “Qua!”

He stirred in his sleep before his head finally perked up. “Saige,” he stood up and rushed to her bedside. “Damn I’m glad you’re awake. How do you feel?”

“Like a thousand elephants trampled on my chest. What happened?”

“Carmine shot you. You don’t remember?”

She looked around the room then shook her head. “No. The last thing I remember is riding in the car with you.”

Her feelings were hurt that Carmine had gone to the extreme and shot her. She was still feeling some type of way about him beating her ass. The fact that he’d shot her told her that he was a bigger threat to her than she thought.

“Yeah, baby girl, we were riding in the car to go to your house to get more clothes, and you went in alone. Carmine was there apparently and shot you.”

“I-I-I don’t remember,” she shook her head again. “Where’s my family?”

“It’s two in the morning, Saige. They went home a few hours ago, but they’ll be back in the morning,” he assured her, lightly rubbing her cheek. “I’m just so happy that you’re finally awake. I was scared as fuck that I’d never get to look into your pretty eyes again.”

She blushed slightly. “Stop, Quadir.”

“I’m serious, beautiful. Listen, this whole situation just…made me realize that I’m fighting what I’m feeling about you,” he confessed to her.

“And what is it that you feel?”

“I don’t know, but it’s something. Something that I don’t want to keep fighting. I want to see where things can go with us, Saige, straight up. I’d be a fuckin’ idiot not to see what could happen.”

“You trust yourself to take my virginity now?” She questioned, peering up at him.

“I trust that I won’t do anything to purposely hurt you,” he said truthfully.

After staring at him for a moment, she nodded slowly. “Okay, Quadir. I’ll give you a chance. Don’t blow it.”

“I wouldn’t do that,” he leaned down and kissed her lips.

Saige felt a jolt of electricity surge through her body and head straight to her pussy. She’d never felt that with Carmine, and she loved the hell out of him.

“I’ve been wanting to do that for a minute,” he smirked and adjusted himself in his sweatpants.

She started blushing like crazy when she noticed that he’d gotten aroused. “So um, w-what happened to Carmine? Is he in jail?”

“God willing, his soul is in hell.”

“Huh?” Her eyes swelled. “You killed him?”

“Saige, what the hell did you think I was going to do? He’d already shot you twice, I had to protect you,” he told her.

She swallowed hard. “H-he had kids, Quadir. What a-about them?”

“ He should’ve thought about them before he decided to shoot you twice, beautiful. His kids ain’t got shit to do with me protecting you. I don’t give a fuck who it is, Ima always do what I have to, to make sure you’re straight. If that includes laying down twenty niggas then…” he shrugged. “That’s what I’ll have to do.”

Hearing him talk that gangsta shit oddly turned her on. The way he spoke about protecting her with so much passion had her ready to hand him her virginity with a red bow on it.

“Is this Grim talking?” She asked.

He raised a curious eyebrow. “Who the hell told you that?”

“Levi,” she picked with the blanket on the bed. “Look, if we’re going to be dealing with each other, I want to know everything about you, Quadir. The good and the bad. I’ll never judge you.”

“You promise?” He checked after a few moments of silence.

She stuck her pinky out towards him. “Promise.”

Locking pinkies with her, he pulled her finger up to his lips and kissed it. “Alright. I’ll give you the shortened version. Once you’re fully healed and out of the hospital, I’ll give you the longer version while we’re on an island somewhere.”

“Okay,” she giggled and nodded.

He drew in a deep breath and stared into her eyes for a brief moment. “Aight, so I was in the streets when I was young. My dad worked a lot and was always out the house, so I just ran the streets with Levi all the time. I worked for Carmine’s father, and he hasn’t let me go since. First, I was selling his dope and moving guns here and there. It helped get me through medical school. Now, I patch up members of the mafia whenever Luca tells me to. Carmine was one of those members that I’ve worked on before. That’s how we know each other. Carmine didn’t own a fuckin’ tech company… he was mafia through and through. He worked for his father moving dope and cleaning up messes, if you know what I mean.”

“Wow,” she said softly after taking in all of the information. “I don’t even know what to say. I had no clue. It all makes sense now why he just had so much money to give away,” she was quiet for a while then looked up at him. “What does that mean for you if you killed Carmine?”

“Doesn’t mean shit. There’s only five people that knows it was me. Two of them are in this room, the other one is dead, and the other two are also involved so they wouldn’t incriminate themselves.”

“Mm. So you’re just living a double life, huh?”

“Indeed I am. I’m trying to figure a way out of it now, but it’s not easy.”

“Well,” she gently grabbed his hand. “I’m sure we can figure it out.”

His eyes lit up. “Yeah?”

“Yeah,” she nodded with a smile.

His ringing phone interrupted the moment they were having. Grabbing his phone out of his pocket, he answered. Based on the conversation, Saige could tell it was someone from the hospital.

“Something’s going on with one of my patients, so I have to go. I’ll be back as soon as I can,” he told her, putting his phone back in his pocket.

“Will I be safe here?”

“Yeah,” he leaned down and kissed her again. “Like I said, no one knows. I can have Levi come up here though, if that’ll make you feel better.”

“Um, no. If you say I’m safe, then I believe you.”

He nodded and kissed her one more time. “Alright. I’ll be back, beautiful. I’ll let the doctor know you’re awake.”

“Okay,” she nodded and smiled at him as he walked out.

Even though she was laying there in pain, her heart was fluttering around her chest like a caged bird. Quadir had her feeling alive and that was weird for her. When she envisioned her life as a young girl, she didn’t exactly picture herself being with someone who was in the streets or had ever been involved with that life. She didn’t picture herself dealing with a killer, and yet she was ready to risk it all for the man who had her feeling like a teenaged dream.

“Miss Persaud, I’m Dr. Borelli, it’s good to see you awake,” a small, Asian woman stepped into the room with a smile. “It was touch and go there for a while.”

“A while? How long have I been here?”

“Two weeks,” she replied, checking out Saige’s vitals.

“Two weeks? Oh my God! Am I going to be alright?”

“Well, you’re awake and that’s already saying a lot. We performed surgery and were able to remove the bullet that was lodged. The bullet to your chest was clean, through and through. The one to your stomach was a little trickier, but we safely removed it without damaging any major organs. The areas where you were shot have been stitched and covered. Your body has just been resting and recovering for the last two weeks. How are you feeling right now?”

“Like a thousand midgets did the A-town stomp on my chest.”

Dr. Borelli laughed and nodded. “Okay, that just means the pain meds have worn off. I’m going to push some more, and they’re going to make you drowsy. You’ll more than likely fall back asleep and that’s okay. I just want you out of pain.”

“Okay,” Saige nodded because all she wanted was to be out of pain too.

They chatted for a few more minutes and sure enough, Saige was feeling sleepy as hell. Dr. Borelli encouraged her to go to sleep and assured her she’d check in on her in the morning. Saige followed the doctors’ orders and slipped into a deep slumber. She was having the most vivid dreams about life with Quadir while she slept.

When she awoke for the second time, there was sunlight pouring into the room. Her chest didn’t hurt as bad, but she was still feeling a lot of discomfort.

“Saige! You’re awake!”

She looked over and smiled at Ramel. “Hey, lil’ buddy! Where’s everyone?”

“Dad and Moon went to get coffee. I told them I’d stay here just in case you woke up. And you did! I knew you’d wake up for me!” He beamed.

She reached out and lightly touched his cheek. “You knew that I’d do it for you because I’ll do anything for you, and I’m glad you know that.”

“Mmhm,” he nodded with a bright smile. “I can’t wait until you get out of here. I made you a get-well card, but I left it at home. I will bring it later.”

“Oh, it’s okay, honey. Just waking up and seeing your handsome face is all the get-well that I need.”

“Saige!” Moon gasped when she walked in the room with Winston right behind her.

“Baby girl!” Winston swiftly moved to her bedside and kissed her forehead. “It’s so good to see you up.”

“I’m happy to see y’all too,” she accepted a kiss on the cheek from Moon.

“Quadir said you don’t remember what happened, but is there anything at all that you can remember?” Winston asked her.

She shook her head but didn’t miss the weird expression on Moon’s face. “N-no. It’s all foggy.”

“Daddy, can I talk to Saige alone for a minute?” Moon requested.

“Is everything okay?” Win asked, looking between his two daughters.

Moon looked at him and nodded. “Everything is fine. I just… really need to fill her in on something but…womanly things.”

“Uh, okay,” he tapped Ramel’s shoulder and nodded towards the door. “Let’s give your sisters some privacy. We’ll be right outside.”

Once Ramel and Winston were gone and the door was closed, Moon turned her attention on Saige. “I know what happened, Saige.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Stop playing stupid with me! I forced Quadir to tell me everything and he did. Why didn’t you tell me you had a boyfriend, Saige? You are my best friend, we don’t keep secrets!” She said with a hurt expression on her face.

Saige stared at her and tried to gauge how much she really knew. “Moon, I’m sorry. Things between he and I were complicated and the less people that knew about it, the better.”

“But see what happened? He got jealous and shot you! He could’ve killed you, Saige. Thank God Quadir was there to get you to the hospital, or you could’ve died!”

“I know,” she sighed. “I really don’t remember what happened though. What did Qua tell you, exactly?”

Moon shrugged, folding her arms across her chest. “He told me that you and him were starting to get closer but you had an out-of-town boyfriend who came into town unannounced. Your boyfriend caught you and Quadir leaving your house, shot you, and ran off. Quadir said he told the police everything he knew, and they’re working really hard to find the dickhead. If he contacts you, Saige, you need to let the police know. Do not protect him.”

“Trust me, I have no intention on doing so,” she truthfully admitted.

Saige was relieved that Qua didn’t go into deep detail about what had transpired. She didn’t want to explain to her sister that she had fallen into a sugar daddy situation. Saige always wanted to give Moon something to look up to. Revealing that she was exchanging oral sex for a certain type of lifestyle wasn’t a good look. She planned to take that secret with her to her grave.