A Street Doctor's Virgin: Standalone

20. Quadir

20

Quadir

“ B ro, you’re not going to believe this shit!” Levi walked into Q’s office at the hospital, closing the door behind him.

Q looked up from his computer, surprised by the pop-up visit. Levi never visited him at work. “What’s going on?”

“Nico is dead,” Levi informed him, plopping down in a chair.

“What?” Q’s eyes swelled. “Domenico Sartori is dead?”

“Dead as a muthafuckin’ doorknob,” Levi confirmed as he nodded his head.

Qua started grinning. “So, the plan worked?”

“Like a charm my boy,” Levi leaned forward and dapped him up.

When Levi and Quadir started talking about the fact that Luca believed that Nico was responsible for Carmine’s disappearance, they came up with a game plan. It only took them a few hours to work out the details. Levi knew a tech guy, Bobby, who could hack anything and make it look legit. Bobby was able to hack Nico’s phone, and using Carmine’s cell phone number, he ‘‘exchanged’’ a series of texts between the two brothers. Bobby made it look like Nico had followed Carmine to Virginia and they got into an argument via text. The last text that Bobby sent to Carmine’s phone read: You’re dead when I see you . Bobby then sent a screenshot of the text exchange from a fake number to Luca’s phone.

Quadir and Levi had been patiently waiting to see what was going to happen. To hear that their plan actually worked was music to his ears. He didn’t give a fuck about anyone with the last name Sartori, so there was no love loss on his end knowing that Nico was dead. It was all part of the game, in Q’s mind. As long as he and his shorty could live in peace moving forward, that’s the only thing that mattered to him.

“Damn, I was starting to get stressed for a minute.”

Levi chuckled. “Shit, me too. Bobby knew what he was doing though, so we all good. You think Luca gon’ reach out to you?”

“He really wouldn’t have a need to,” Q shrugged. “There’s nothing I can do for his dead son.”

“You got a point there,” Levi looked around and inspected his office. “You know you a big muthafuckin’ deal when you got a big ass office.”

“Man, get the fuck on,” Q laughed at Lee.

“I was kicking it with Ma Dukes the other day, and she was going on and on about Saige. Shit getting serious with y’all, huh?”

Levi regularly spent time with Angie just as much as Q did. Levi’s mother died when he was ten years old, so his grandfather took him in because his father was nowhere to be found. Once Levi and Q became friends, Angie became like a mother to Levi. He held her in a high regard because she didn’t have to look out for him the way that she did.

Q leaned back and smiled big just thinking about Saige. “Yeah man. I love the fuck out of her.”

“Awh yeah, she the one for you, my nigga. She got you out here smiling hard as fuck you tender dick muthafucka,” Levi roared with laughter. Even though he was making fun of him, Levi was genuinely happy for Qua.

“Fuck you, nigga,” Q laughed along with him.

“Dr. B?” Jackie knocked then opened the door. “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know you had a visitor.”

“It’s fine, Jack Jack, wassup?” He directed his attention to her.

“Dr. Flannigan is requesting a bedside consult with you. She’s in room eight with a ten-year-old patient,” Jackie informed him, briefly looking at Levi who was staring her down.

Qua nodded and stood up. “Tell her I’ll be right there.”

“Okay.”

“My nigga, who the fuck is that?” Levi questioned as soon as Jackie walked away.

“Hell nah, Levi! Jackie is my nurse, and she works with me. The last thing I need is yo crazy ass fuckin’ her mental up because that’s going to fuck her up here at work. I can’t have that. She’s too good at what she does,” he shook his head hard. “Fuck no.”

Levi sucked his teeth and stood up as well. “Grim, c’mon, it’s ya boy! If you think she’s on her A game now, just wait until she get a lil’ D from Levi in her life.”

“Fuck outta here, Lee,” Qua laughed and dapped him up.

They said their goodbyes then Q went to give Dr. Flannigan a hand. Once he was done with that, he checked the time and noted that it was time for him to leave. Changing back into his street clothes, he left the hospital quickly and headed over to Winston’s house.

Ever since Winston found out that Q was Kadeem’s son, he’d grown even more fond of Q. They’d been building their own bond along with Moon and Ramel. Hailey came across as stand-offish to Q, but he still made the effort to at least speak to her. He really didn’t give a fuck because any opp of Saige’s was an opp of his, but for the sake of Ramel, Q tried to play nice.

“What’s going on, doc?” Winston greeted, opening the door for him.

Q chuckled because no matter how many times he told Winston to call him Quadir, he still called him doc sometimes. “Not much. How are you?”

“I’m doing just fine,” he leaned towards the stairs. “Moon! Quadir is here!”

“Quadir!” Ramel came running from the living room with a smile.

Qua dapped him up. “Wassup, lil’ man? You feeling good?”

“Yup. And guess what?” He bubbled with excitement.

“What?”

“Kesha is my girlfriend now,” he gleamed proudly.

“Awh snap,” Q laughed and dapped him up. “That’s what I’m talking about big dawg.”

“Don’t have kids,” Winston teased, playfully rolling his eyes. “This one right here is the reason I have gray hair,” he nodded at Moon as she came down the stairs.

Moon also jokingly rolled her eyes. “Oh, whatever daddy. Ramel and your wife are the reason for that. Ready, Quadir?”

“Yep,” he nodded and opened the front door. “I’ll see y’all later.”

He opened the passenger door for Moon, the same way he would for Saige. Since he’d been getting to know Moon, he wanted to treat her the way he wanted a young nigga to treat her. She had become like a little sister to him for real, so he wanted to make sure he treated her as such.

“When are you and Saige going to have a baby? I asked her last night, and she hung up on me,” Moon looked at him the second he pulled away from the curb.

Q almost choked on his spit then laughed. “Moon, you gotta chill. I want to marry her first. We’ll have babies when we’re ready.”

“That’s funny. I hope you’re ready now,” she stated, sitting back in her seat.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” It was his turn to look at her.

“Do you know why my mother named me Moon Stone, Quadir?” She met his gaze.

He shrugged slowly and focused on the road. “Because she had a thing for astrology and the universe?”

“No, it’s because she knew I’d be able to see into the future and sense things. I’m very in tune with the Earth, and it never steers me wrong. Saige is pregnant.”

“Okay,” he chuckled then looked at her again and noticed how serious she looked. “Did she tell you that?”

“My dreams and my gut told me, Quadir. I know you’ve taken her virginity because her whole demeanor is different. Saige and I are very close, so I just wouldn’t start dreaming about her being pregnant out of nowhere. It’s because she is ,” she reinforced without cracking a smile.

“Well, I think your sister would know if she’s pregnant, and she hasn’t mentioned anything to me.”

“No, she wouldn’t know. Qua, seriously, she was a 24-year-old virgin when you met her. Getting pregnant was never on her mind, so what makes you think she would know if she was or wasn’t?”

He remained silent because he was thinking hard about if he had noticed any changes in Saige. The longer he thought about it, he kept coming up with blanks. He knew he had been dumping off in her every time they fucked though. There was a possibility she could be pregnant, but she was showing no symptoms. With him being a doctor, he knew what to look for and Saige had been showing none of the typical signs of pregnancy.

“I’ll talk to her about it when I get home,” he told Moon just to satisfy her.

Moon nodded and they continued talking until they reached the Bayside Rec Center. Moon had organized an event for Qua to come and speak to kids from her high school about becoming a doctor. She thought it’d be good for her classmates to hear it from a young, black man’s perspective. She was shooting to become valedictorian of her class, and Q was down to help her in any way possible.

After spending over an hour talking to the students and answering questions, Q was ready to leave and get home to his woman.

“Ready?” Q asked Moon.

She pointed at a group of girls that were still hanging around. “We’re about to go and get pizza.”

“Your dad know that?” Q raised an overprotective eyebrow.

She laughed and rolled her eyes. “Yesss, Quadir. Call him and ask him, he’ll tell you.”

“Aight,” he chuckled. “You got money for pizza?”

She nodded her head. “Never leave home without it.”

He unlocked his phone and sent her one hundred dollars through Cash App anyway. “Just in case. And call me if you need me, Moon, for real.”

“I’ll be fine. I’ll hit the group chat once I’m home,” she quickly hugged him. “Thanks for supporting me today. It really means a lot.”

“Anytime,” he winked and turned to leave.

“Qua?” She called out.

He slightly turned and looked at her. “Yes?”

“I’m glad you and Saige found one another.”

“Me too, baby girl,” he smiled.

Exiting the building, he rushed to his car and got inside. It was the beginning of December and cold as fuck already. While waiting for his car to warm up, he realized that he hadn’t heard from Saige. Just as he went to tell his car to call her, a call came through from her.

“I was just about to call you,” he told her.

“Quadir,” her voice came through shakily.

He tensed up. “Baby, what’s the matter?”

“I shot them,” she said just above a whisper.

“Shot who?” He yelled without meaning to. The news of her shooting anyone really caught him off guard.

“L-Luca and another man. They approached me aggressively, and I got scared. Luca said he couldn’t be sure that Nico was the real reason Carmine was dead, so he had to tie up all possible loose ends. He was going to kill me and you next,” she cried.

“Fuck. Where you at, beautiful?”

“At the house.”

He was confused because he knew for a fact that Luca didn’t know about his second home. He always purchased shit in Levi’s name for that very reason. If anyone ever ran his name, they’d never be able to locate him.

“The new house?”

“No, the other one. I realized that I left some documents that I needed for work, so I came here, and they just came out of nowhere.”

Luca had access to that neighborhood because of Qua which was how he was able to get through the gate. Q knew he should’ve revoked Luca’s access a long time ago, but he didn’t want to raise any red flags.

“Damn. Okay. Just stay there, I’m on my way. I love you.”

“I love you too,” she responded then hung up.

Qua did eighty all the way home. All he wanted to do was get to Saige and make sure she was alright. As he approached his old home, he noticed the black Escalade parked on the street across from his house. He figured that was the car that Luca and whoever was with him had arrived in. Pulling into his wrap around driveway, he saw Luca and Gennaro laid out on the lawn. At that moment, he was thankful that that specific house was at the end of the street and there were no neighbors around to hear the shots.

“Baby,” Saige melted into his arms after he checked their pulse to make sure they were dead.

He could tell she was extremely shaken up as he hugged her tightly. “It’s okay, bae. I’m gon’ take care of this. You did what you had to do to protect yourself and me, and I’m proud of you.”

“I can’t go to jail, Quadir,” she pulled away and looked at him.

“Have I ever been to jail? No. Have I ever killed a man? Yes, plenty. This…” he pointed at the two bodies. “Never happened, aight?” He took the gun she was still holding from her hands. “Go home. Take a long bubble bath. Drink a few glasses of wine. Put on something sexy so when I get home, I can take it off of you,” he told her calmly.

“Where are you going?”

“I can’t just leave them laying out here,” he gestured to Luca and Gennaro.

“I want to go with you,” she told him with a straight face.

He shook his head. “No, Saige. I can’t have you wrapped up in anything else.”

“Quadir,” she pulled her loose curls up into a bun and looked him dead in the eyes. “I don’t care what you are talking about. I’m going with you and that’s the end of the story.”

After a brief stare off, Qua could see just how determined she really was. Deciding that it wasn’t worth the argument, he shrugged and gave in. He patted Luca and Gennaro down until he found the car keys that he was looking for.

“I’m going to drive their truck into the driveway, then we have to put their bodies inside. I’m going to leave first, and I want you to leave ten minutes after me, understand?”

She nodded. “Yes, baby.”

Nodding his head as well, he jogged down the driveway and hopped into the truck. Starting it up, he backed it into his driveway then popped the trunk. With the help of Saige, they got both bodies into the back of the truck. He texted Saige the address of where to meet him at, kissed her, and then left. Qua wasn’t feeling the fact that she was involved at all, but there was no turning back now.

Being sure to obey all traffic laws, he arrived at what he and Levi had called the burn pit forty minutes later after making a quick stop at a gas station. It was a deserted patch of land that they used to make niggas disappear for good. Since it was in the middle of nothing, no one ever called the cops to report the smoke. It was secluded, which was perfect for their needs. While waiting for Saige to show up, Q called Levi and filled him in on what happened.

“You done turned that girl from a nerd to a thug in a few damn months!” Levi joked like he always did.

“Ha ha nigga, you always got fuckin’ jokes. Did you not hear what I said? Yo plug is gone!”

“I ain’t trippin’. It ain’t shit for me to get another one, I know a few people that was trying to do business anyway.”

Q let out a sigh of relief. “Bet, bet. That was the only thing I was worried about.”

“Fuck them Italian muthafuckas. I can get money with anybody. Luca had us on a leash, remember? We been wanted to get away from his racist ass.”

“Yeah, you right,” he watched as Saige drove up and parked a few feet away from him. “Let me hit you back, she just pulled up.”

“Aye, tell Bonnie I said, ‘welcome to the family’,” he snickered.

Rolling his eyes, Q ended the call and hopped out. Q told her what they were going to do, and he noticed that she didn’t seem bothered in the slightest by it. Using the cans of gasoline he’d grabbed from the gas station, he started to pour the flammable liquid all over the car with Saige’s help.

“You sure you good?” He asked her after they finished dowsing the truck with gasoline.

“Quadir, once you told me who you really were when I was in the hospital, I had the opportunity to run, but I didn’t. I didn’t run then, and I’m not running now. This needs to be done so that we’ll be straight from here on out,” she stated calmly.

His dick twitched at her gangsta, bossy demeanor. Leaning over, he kissed her deeply. “I love you so much, Saige. I can’t wait to make you my fuckin’ wife.”

“I love you too, daddy,” she winked at him.

Leaving a trail of gasoline from Luca’s car to Saige’s car, Q threw the gas cans hard and they landed near the truck. Saige grabbed the lighter from his hand, kneeled, and flicked it until a flame jumped out. She stood back up and kept her eyes on the trail of fire as it spread quickly. He watched as she jumped slightly once the car caught fire and started exploding.

“Let’s go home, baby,” he grabbed her attention after a few more minutes.

With a smile on her face, she nodded and jumped back into the driver’s seat. Quadir knew he was going to have to keep an eye on her. Taking a life wasn’t easy, and yet she was acting like it was no big deal. Either she’d done it before, or she was just batshit crazy. Either way, she was his lady, and he was going to do everything in his power to make sure she was straight. Their bond was forever cemented now that they’d committed the ultimate act together.