9. Praise
Chapter Nine
PRAISE
“You want seconds Daddy?”
My sexy redbone asked as she sauntered away from me, her ass was damn near swallowing her booty shorts.
I bit my bottom lip and slapped her on the ass hard watching that shit clap back at me.
She was one of the girls besides the other two I kept in heavy rotation.
She was actually my favorite girl. Nicole was down for anything; she was a freak but smart as fuck and worked her ass off.
I gifted her with lots of shit because she never asked for shit nor did she hound a nigga down.
She knew I wasn’t her nigga and nothing more than chilling, having fun and fucking would come up out of our little situation.
I was back in Cali for the next two days, Teflon didn’t know that I was watching his ass a little more closely.
My gut had been telling me that some shit was not right in my organization so it caused me to be on alert.
Nothing had come my way yet though, but a nigga always went with my first mind.
Just because I was at the top, didn’t mean that I couldn’t come down to the bottom of any situation and get shit handled.
Niggas thought since I was in Vegas, things were peachy and they could slack off.
That was a big mistake. Anytime money came up short or I get an instinct that something was right I immediately got down to the source of it all.
My phone kept blowing up, of course, it was Laquanna’s crazy ass.
I only had been out here for a full day in a half and she was basically going bananas.
I needed the break from Vegas anyway, once I saw that Mattea was in good hands with Kayori.
I dove headfirst into all my personal business as well as street shit.
Nicole straddled my lap; I grabbed a hand full of ass.
Nicole was sexy as fuck; she always smelled peachy as hell and kept her makeup down to a minimum.
I was never against the make-up shit; I just appreciated a woman that didn’t have to depend on that shit every single day.
I needed to see a woman’s real face her real beauty, that was good enough for me.
Nicole was five foot four, light skin, perky c cup breast with a nice sized ass.
Her face was flawless with high ass cheekbones and full lips that I loved feeling around my dick.
“I’m gone want some more of that steak and mash potatoes when I’m done digging all in them guts shorty.”
She blushed and grinded her hot twat on my lap, feeling my soldier brick up.
I tapped her on the ass to stand up so I could get inside of her fast. Pulling the magnum condoms out of my wallet there was a tap at her front door.
Sliding the condoms back in my pocket, I pulled my gun out and stroked it.
I had my guards in place so I really wasn’t too worried.
Stay dangerous is what I lived by so you could never be too sure.
It would have to be a cold day in hell before I allowed any nigga, in particular, to catch me slipping though.
“Hold on daddy, that must be Chantel. Let me tell her that I’ll get up with her later.”
She walked to the door. I still held my gun.
I didn’t give a fuck who it was. I always stayed ready and I never trusted a bitch no matter how good or pretty they were.
She tried to crack the door open instead of looking through the peephole first. That was her biggest mistake.
The door slammed against her face causing her to hit the floor with a thud.
She squirmed and cried; all I could see was blood spurting from her pretty face.
I thought it was a robbery until I heard the fucking voice behind it.
“Yeah, bitch I told you I was gonna get your high yella ass! You thought you had one up on me when you walked off with my man!”
Laquanna stood over Nicole with baggy sweats an all-black oversized Nike hoodie with a full-face mask.
This crazy bitch even had on steel-toe black boots with black gloves to match.
Her foot came down on Nicole instantly knocking her out cold.
That shit made me cringe as I approached her swiftly!
“You better teach this bitch a lesson since you refuse to kill her ass!” before I could stop myself, I turned my gun around, holding it by the barrel.
I backhanded her hard with it, causing her to collapse down next to Nicole and scream out in agony.
“You never hit me Beast what the fuck! Is that how you treating me now!”
She cried out and a small part of me felt a little bad.
She didn’t realize how much of a trigger she actually was to me.
If I acted out on that voice every time, she and a couple of other people would have been dead.
Shaking the little bit of sympathy, I had for her off, my bodyguards finally came through the door with puzzled faces.
“You motherfuckers are three minutes late! Close the fucking door! Stand by outside!”
Once they did as I said, I tucked my gun behind me and snatched Laquanna ass up. Her lips were busted and bleeding, Nicole started to squirm which indicated she was finally about to wake up.
“Bitch it’s three o’clock! Kayori’s about to be off of work in the next hour! It takes five hours to get to Vegas from LA! You just gon’ leave my fucking baby without a care in the world to follow me and watch what the fuck I’m doing with my dick! I want to kill you so fucking bad Laquanna!”
She cried then the begging started as Nicole laid there and whimpered softly holding her nose. I felt fucked up for shorty because she didn’t deserve that clown shit Laquanna pulled. After the stunt in Vegas, Nicole offered to fall back but I reassured her Laquanna wouldn’t be a problem.
“I love you so fucking much Beast! Why you keep putting me and Mattea through this! You laid up with this bitch like I don’t fucking exist!”
Pinching my nose, I ran my hands over my waves. This shit was getting old. I didn’t see myself settling down with no bitch, that didn’t mean I didn’t have bitches I could lay up with and chill with like Nicole. Laquanna wanted to scare every bitch I had.
“Laquanna you know I don’t got it all when it comes to up here.”
I tapped my forehead with my index finger for emphasis.
“So why you want to keep playing around and testing me? You want to be dead? You want another bitch to play the mommy role because I will do it! Someone inside of me wants me to kill you! It tells me that every fucking day!”
I snapped almost losing control again, the voice was back and it was all because of her once again. She sniffled and gave me those sad eyes as I struggled with my thoughts. I felt weak like I couldn’t breathe and I realized that I couldn’t hold the panic attack that was about to come over me.
“Get out Laquanna meet me at my mom's house.”
She wiped her tears and hurriedly ran out the door bleeding and all.
It was the best I could offer her. I didn’t want her to see me like this.
Holding my chest, I went to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water.
I planned on helping Nicole and apologizing once again then leaving her alone for her own safety.
First, I needed to get this panic attack under control.
Fear crossed me as my chest got tighter, the voice kept talking in my head screaming loud at me with so much anger.
I tried taking deep breaths and pouring water over me.
Nothing seemed to work, my phone ranged.
I answered it without looking at the caller I.D.
“Hello, Mr. Praise… I’m sorry to bother you but we need to talk.”
Just like that Kayori’s voice calmed me all the way down. Something about her soft delicate voice sent comfort my way. She didn’t even have to tell me that I was going to be ok, it was just in her voice alone. Taking deep breaths, the line went silent.
“I’m listening Kayori.”
Was all I could offer up as I took a couple more sips from the water and poured the rest of it on my shirt. My heartbeat slowed down to its normal pace and just like that, I was calm. It made me wonder was Kayori my source of medicine?
“My apologies again for bothering you. However, I needed to speak with you concerning my work hours. A lot of days I stay way past my time, you have me on a salary which is very good and helpful but lately, I’ve been here until eight pm. The latest is sometimes ten close to eleven.”
She cleared her throat. I gripped my phone tight the anger I had for Laquanna came rushing back.
“We will have a meeting together in a couple of days at my office. I’ll text you the information later on. I’ll call her uncle Stone to pick her up. My apologies and thank you. I’ll add a bonus check for your troubles.”
Laquanna was on bullshit. I wasn’t no take it to the courts to get custody type of nigga but she was about to push me to it.
“No problem, Praise. Mattea is a sweetheart I totally don’t mind it some days. I just have other things to handle sometimes.”
I wanted to ask her what was those other things.
I knew it was none of my business so I wouldn’t cross the line with her for now.
After that night of me touching and tasting her.
I forced myself to fall back, Kayori was dangerous yet unpredictable.
I wanted to gravitate towards her so bad but another part of me gave me a warning.
I had my reservations and I couldn’t lie the way she reversed the tables on me a week ago had me pissed.
The ball was always in my court and I dribbled and controlled that motherfucker.
“I understand, I’ll be in touch.”