19. Beast
Chapter Nineteen
BEAST
“Daddy, who you talk to?”
I released the tight hold that I had on my cellphone and looked at my daughter.
I tried to calm my damn nerves, but lately, I had been on the edge.
When I came to the forefront, Praise would fight me so hard to get back in control.
I heard his voice in my head, hell I heard a lot of them.
None of them were as dominating as Praise’s voice, like my voice was dominant to him.
Unlike him, though, it was easy to ignore his ass.
He just couldn’t ignore me. I got on that nigga’s nerve so instead of responding to me silently, he’d snap and answer me in front of people.
Making us both look crazy as fuck. Now, here I sat at this private park, looking crazy in front of my baby girl.
“Mind your business, Tea.”
Rubbing the top of her head and kissing her on her chubby cheeks, she ran along as I finished plotting out my next moves.
People were still walking around with breath in their bodies after having the balls to cross me.
I had Kayori on my mind and killing folks at the same time.
I knew Kayori was pregnant, I could feel it.
I also knew she was scared to have a baby by me, probably because of my mental or whatever she thought I had.
Either way it goes, she was stuck with me, and I wasn’t letting her ass go.
Wasn’t shit wrong with me, that I couldn’t handle.
I kept trying to convey that shit to Praise soft ass.
It was me in control of it all, Praise just became a part of me.
That’s the way I saw shit, because if I were in control the whole city would constantly be painted red.
I knew I couldn’t live life being a complete maniac.
I knew I wasn’t normal and that was fine with me.
I enjoyed being in control and demanding my respect.
I probably chose violence ninety percent of the time, my patience was thin.
I let Praise control shit because he was the more logical and he had more sense with keeping our anger under control.
“Daddy! I want ice cream!” Mattea yelled as she ran back into my arms. I lifted her high in the air and smiled right back at her.
I was so happy to have her lil ass back with me, nobody could protect her like I could.
I made up my mind to give her the best of the best, and make sure I stayed in control of my anger.
I just hated that I end up having a baby by a vindictive and stupid bitch like Laquanna, which is why I was impatiently waiting on one of my men to arrive to the park to give me the information I had been waiting on.
“What you think about having a new mommy, Tea?”
She shrugged her shoulders; I didn’t expect her to understand none of it.
Her little mind was too young to even process what that meant.
I needed to make a move on Laquanna now, so when Mattea got older, I could explain how her mom made bad decisions and she somehow died.
It was twisted, but it had to be done. I was still angry seeing the light bruises that remained on my baby girl’s skin.
“Be back, daddy.”
Her cold lips kissed my forehead as she ran off to play some more.
I made a mental note to get Tea one scoop of ice cream before we went to Kayori’s house.
I had to bring her back to my house because I needed to handle some shit of my own without having Mattea with me.
I already knew Kayori’s dramatic ass had left my house and I would gladly bring her ass right back to mine.
Just as my patience started to fall short, I watched Mr. Williams, a now retired FBI Intelligence Analyst, walk past the playground with his briefcase as he made his way to me.
I had Mr. Williams on my payroll for a couple of years now.
Whenever someone was a threat or I simply needed them looked into, Williams always did a thorough investigation.
“I don’t pay your ass six figures to be late, my nigga,” I grilled him as he nervously laughed off my comment, he took a seat and opened his briefcase.
Handing me a yellow thick envelope, I could see the wrinkles on his face.
His eyebrows had a lot of gray hairs and so did his short wild curly hair.
He always looked stressed the fuck out, I didn’t understand it.
Williams’ ass was retired. He should have been living his life, which was none of my business so I wouldn’t pry.
He was a cool cat. I met him back in the day when I first started running the streets to take over.
He had warned me how the FEDs were already looking into me.
He connected me with the right people, and they turned a blind eye when it came to me.
It was the only way I was able to keep my freedom.
“I found everything on Gunna, Teflon, and Laquanna. I even have their associates’ addresses and the places they frequent every so often.
I recommend, if you plan on killing them…
do it spaced out and not at the same time, Mr. Brownston.
You don’t want to cause any type of suspicions,” he said everything I wanted to hear, but one person he left out.
That left me thinking he had more information to deliver, so I remained quiet to see if he would keep talking.
When he didn’t, my jaw clenched, I didn’t like playing the guessing nor waiting game.
“Williams, I gave you four names…Yea?” Raising my brow at him, sweat gathered at the top of his forehead. I scanned the park play area and smiled a little at the sight of Mattea allowing another little girl to push her on the swing.
“I apologize, Brownston. It’s hard to trace Nia… Her records indicate that she is deceased. Do you know if she is now going by any other name?”
“I don’t pay you to ask me the questions! I tell you what it is and then you’re supposed to look into it. You got forty-eight hours, Williams. Please don’t disappoint me.”
Standing to my feet, I trekked across the sand to stop the swing my baby was on.
I carried her to the car and promised her ice cream.
I couldn’t wait to get her settled so I could open up this envelope and make my way to every single person that had crossed me.
Praise wanted Nia alive to have a little bit of closure on what it was they once had.
To be honest, I didn’t need shit from her dog faced ass.
She was never innocent to me. Just a pretty face with a tight ass body to nut in is the way I had always saw Nia.
I never felt connected to her, which is why I fucked on plenty of bitches while I was with her.
Praise was on that soft ass simp shit, feeling like he didn’t deserve another bitch while I constantly thought the opposite.
That was an ‘I told you so’ to his dumb ass, his precious Nia wasn’t as innocent as he always thought her out to be.
Once I got Mattea her ice cream, she sung that annoying ass Cocomelon in the car until she fell asleep on the ride to Kayori’s house.
I went ahead and went straight there because I knew her stubborn ass was in her feelings about the shit I said over the phone.
I was starting to fall for Kayori, the way she could decipher me and Praise apart from each other was dope as fuck to me.
Most chicks would have left our asses alone.
I meant when I said she was my medicine, nothing was normal about me.
I accepted that shit a long time ago. It was Praise that was still in a hard battle with what it was about us.
God didn’t make no mistakes, so I took this shit for what it was.
I kept shit real at all times and didn’t believe in telling lies to protect a person’s feelings.
Finding a parking spot, I looked around and saw my men in place.
I had twenty-four seven protection at all times.
They weren’t noticeable, but my men were always there.
Carrying my baby girl up a flight of steps was light work for me.
When I made it to Kayori’s door, I knocked then stood back to wait for her to come to the door.
Every time I came face to face with her, she made a nigga’s heart act weird.
My heartbeat would beat differently. If Mattea wasn’t in my arms, I would pull her ass in for a hug and kiss her until I felt our breathing as one.
Rolling her eyes, she stepped to the side to let me in.
One thing that I liked about Kayori, she knew when to be confrontational and when not to be.
She seen me with my daughter and didn’t confront me or try to start an argument.
She stepped her pretty thick ass to the side and let me in to get Mattea settled.
Kayori was sexy as fuck to me. She might’ve appeared rough and too big for the average nigga, but to me, she was everything.
When she would sleep, I would trace each scar on the right side of her face and kiss them.
I adored her ass, and she didn’t even know that.
She was stuck with me forever, so I hope she got ready for the ride.
She walked away with nothing but a thick towel covering her body.
Each step she took, one cheek at a time would slip out the bottom of the towel she thought was secured on her.
Licking my lips at the backside view she gave as she disappeared down the hall.
I laid Mattea down, turned on her Cocomelon and made my way to Kayori room.
She sat quietly at the edge of her bed putting on Shea butter, she turned around slightly to face me with anger in her eyes that turned me on more. Dropping her towel my mouth watered.
“Why are you here, Beast?” Her soft tone made it hard for me to even take her serious.
“I’m always gone be wherever you are, Juicy.”