Chapter 29
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
SHAKUR MOORE
TWO WEEKS LATER
Iwas never a person who talked to God a lot. Mainly because I felt like I was just way too bad to even attempt to call out His name, but today? Today, I couldn’t do anything else except thank Him for the blessing He gave to us, even though I wasn’t deserving of it.
All my life, since I could remember, I’d been rough around the edges and doing what I wanted. Don’t get me wrong, I honored my parents and listened to them while at home. I knew better than to talk to them like I was crazy; however, I wasn’t that innocent on the streets.
I always told myself that as long as it didn’t get back to them, I was okay, and so, I became a whole ass terror.
My motto was ‘what they didn’t know, wouldn’t hurt,’ and for a long time, they didn’t know what I got up to, but I knew God was seeing it all.
That was why I could never bring myself to pray and ask for anything because I knew I didn’t deserve it. However, for whatever reason, he decided to bless me, and I had to thank Him.
Since I could remember, I didn’t want anything to do with Havoc. Simply because he was Orlando’s son and mixed up in the same shit I wanted nothing to do with, but he came through for us in a big way.
I would admit, I walked into this thing a little nervous, wondering if he truly knew what he was doing.
He was putting himself in the line of fire more instead of keeping away like I was trying to do.
Even after Sincere approached me about joining his team for the person he wanted to take over, I had no idea that it was Havoc until I saw him that night I went for Sony.
A part of my deal with Sincere was for him to find the “little niggas” that ran up in my crib, and he blew my mind when he told me that it was Sony and his weak ass pops.
I didn’t want to believe it at first. Not because I actually trusted Sony or no shit like that, but because I didn’t think he was dumb enough to try my family like that. Not only did the snake nigga try to rape my baby sister, but he let his fucking pops beat on mine when he tried to protect Kairi.
That shit blew my fucking mind! I had to spend days at Oblique’s store just so I wouldn’t take my anger out on my sister for not telling me. But at the same time, I already knew that pussy ass nigga probably threatened her to keep her quiet. I knew she only did that to protect me and my pops.
But after Sincere told me the real, there was no way I could let Sony get away with it. I would admit, I was both shocked and proud to see Havoc beating his ass that day. At that point, I finally understood that he was checking for Kairi, and it wasn’t just a mess around thing.
There was no nigga going toe-to-toe with another nigga over a broad they weren’t feeling like that.
He showed me right then that I could take a chance on him, and looking around at this new house he purchased for us, I was glad that I did. That was what I was thanking God for.
Sincere had allowed Havoc to tap into some of that money, and the first thing bro did was buy us a new house far away from Sony’s reach. Havoc did some shit that I wasn’t able to do for my own family, so that nigga had my support a thousand percent.
I was making a little something already, but it wasn’t enough for me to be purchasing houses and shit. Sincere hooked Havoc up with a realtor friend, and instead of getting himself a new crib, he set us up, showing me that his heart belonged to my sister.
It was just too bad she wasn’t budging on him. No matter what I said or tried, she was steering clear of Havoc. I had to respect the fact that he had no intention of forcing her, but something was telling me that he might have to.
I stood back and watched as the movers brought all our new furniture inside. My chest was swelling with emotions I didn’t even know I could have. I flipped my eyes up at the ceiling and nodded at God.
Havoc wasn’t playing with us and made sure that he brought everything new too.
Kairi briskly walked past me, watching the men deliver our furniture, and she had this uneasy look on her face.
“What’s going on with you?” I asked. She spun around to look at me and sighed.
“Nothing.”
She’d been acting weird ever since Havoc came to our old house, and I’d been leaving her alone, but not today.
“Don’t tell me it’s nothing when I can see that’s not true,” I said. When she looked away from my eyes, I knew that I was right.
“It’s just—” she started and stopped. Taking that moment to look around again.
“It’s just what?” I probed. Again, another heavy exhale told me that my little sister had a lot on her mind.
After taking a moment to look around us again, she finally looked my way and said, “Doesn’t it feel like something will go wrong?”
That made me frown.
“Something could go wrong like what?” I asked. Her shoulders hunched even though the look in her eyes told me that she knew exactly what she was talking about.
“Is Sony threatening you or something?” I asked, feeling my blood start to boil. God knew I wasn’t trying to fuck shit up for Havoc before he could even start, but if that nigga had ignored my warnings and fucked with Kairi, I was going to war.
It was only because we weren’t in any position yet to take them out without any fallback, and that was the only reason why Sony and Viper were still breathing. But if he’d gone back to Kairi, I was willing to take a chance just to end their lives.
She shook her head to disagree, which instantly calmed me down.
“So, what’s the problem then, Kairi? You’ve not gone to see Havoc, and I know your little ass likes him!”
When this damn girl blushed in my face, I knew that I was right.
She had to like that nigga to get involved with him.
I knew my sister; she wasn’t the type to get mixed up with a dude like that unless she really liked him.
I could see it on the damn Ring doorbell that she was feeling him, and that was why I threatened him to stay away because I could already see that she wouldn’t have left him alone.
“I swear I will never understand you females,” I said, and she chuckled. “When I told your ass to stay from around him, you ain’t wanna listen, but now we're giving you the okay, you're hiding from him!” I fussed, shaking my head.
It just didn’t make any sense. I had to punch that nigga in the face just to keep them apart because she didn’t want to listen to me, but now me and Pops are fucking with him, she wanna play hide and seek.
Every time I was around Havoc, I knew he was looking for my sister, even if he wouldn’t admit it.
“You do know that meeting is in two days, right?” I said. Kairi looked at me and nodded while nibbling on her bottom lip.
“For real, what’s the issue? We couldn’t make you leave his ass alone before.”
It just didn’t make a lick of sense to me.
I told that nigga she was gonna play games with him.
When Havoc came up with that grand idea to come to our old crib to talk to her, I told him that was gonna do nothing except make her run, but he didn’t want to believe me.
“Kairi?” I called her name because she had yet to say anything to me.
“I just don’t think it’s a good idea, Shakur. I’m just trying to do the right thing. Plus, what about Ocean?”
“Ocean? What she got to do with this? Havoc isn’t on her like that—that was all Orlando’s doing,” I explained what I now knew. In the beginning, I did think he was with Ocean like that, which was why I wanted Kairi to stay away.
“Nothing,” Kairi muttered. I narrowed my eyes at her, wondering if she was staying away because of Ocean, but it couldn’t be.
I looked at my little sister and had no choice but to relent. Havoc didn’t want to force her, and neither did I. Whatever was supposed to happen between them would happen, and getting involved wasn’t going to change it.
“Well, it looks like you’ve made up your mind,” I said. Again, she stared at me. Her mind’s eye was working—the look displayed on her face before she slowly nodded.
“Cool. Just make sure it’s the right decision because you won’t get another chance.”
Her deadline was fast approaching, and as much as I knew Havoc cared for Kairi, he made a decision not to pursue her if she didn’t show up at the meeting, and I knew he would stick to it.
I felt bad for them, but there wasn’t much that I could do. I just hoped she knew I was going to continue working with him.
Shit was starting to look up, and I knew it was only the beginning—the best was yet to come.
One of the things that I was loving the most was the fact that mothafuckers couldn’t tell me shit. And when I said mothafuckers, I was talking about Sony.
That fool had been silent as fuck since that day I went to the charity event with Havoc and Sincere. The look on his stupid ass face was priceless. The nigga was mad tight, and I wish I would give a fuck.
I stepped into rooms now, and all they could do was watch me. Watch me soar and make this fucking money.
Havoc was a real one for pulling me into his world, and I couldn’t wait to show them what else I could do.
People only speculated about the type of nigga I was, and now, I could finally show them, and I wanted to see who had the balls to stop me.
I finished directing where I wanted our furniture to go, and after making sure my pops and sister were good, I left out to go and meet Havoc.
This announcement meeting was in a few days, and I knew he was nervous as fuck.
People had been whispering, especially after seeing them together on more than one occasion, but nobody actually knew what was going on.
However, in a few days, it was going to be official.
Some shit that nobody could deny, and I knew my guy was about to lose his shit.
I knew things were gonna be different for him from that point forward, and so I needed to get ready to help him handle the shit. I already knew a few people were gonna have a lot to say about it, and I couldn’t wait to shut their mouths for them.
I pulled up at our new warehouse, which was the second thing Havoc purchased with the money he made from the black market.
Everything else was still under Sincere’s control until the night of the meeting, so he was making a little something compared to what type of money we’d be making after this announcement.
Still, I was grateful that we finally had our own spot for us to meet up.
We were slowly and surely putting our own crew together. Oblique had been in the game long enough, so it made sense for him to be the first person we brought on. He had his peoples that he fucked with heavy and trusted. So far, we were a crew of fifteen, so our own warehouse was definitely needed.
I found comfort in knowing that Havoc was more put together than I gave him credit for. To be honest, I didn’t know shit about him and just ran off a lot of assumptions. I was just glad he proved me wrong.
As soon as I stepped into the warehouse, I saw Trini sitting there scrolling on her phone.
She must have sensed my presence because her head shot up in my direction. I smiled widely, knowing it was only going to piss her off, and just like I knew she would, she flipped me off.
Havoc and Oblique laughed. For whatever reason, this damn girl just didn’t like my ass. She was acting like she wasn’t the one who tried to fight me. All I could do was shake my head.
“Trini, I know you love me, baby girl. Stop fighting it,” I shouted. Her mouth dropped, and I chuckled.
“Nigga, you wish!” she shouted back before going back to her phone. I smiled.
I greeted Havoc and Oblique with a fist bump and dropped into the free seat.
“She’s really not fucking with you, is she?” Oblique questioned. Havoc just shook his head again with a snort.
I looked over in Trini’s direction.
She’d been giving me her whole ass to kiss after she tried to fight me, and I told her to behave.
It then clicked. She didn’t like being told that shit.
I ran a hand across my bottom lip and smiled before I said, “Trini!”
She took a few seconds to finally look my way from her phone, and she stared at me all dry and shit.
I smiled and said, “Behave.”
Again, those middle fingers went up, and I laughed. I loved my new life!