Chapter 41 Trini Coleman
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
TRINI COLEMAN
Iended the call with Havoc and looked over at Sony. He smiled at me.
“Good girl.”
I felt guilt hit me, but I shook it off, knowing I was doing the right thing. I sighed and willed myself to calm down.
“That nigga isn’t getting away tonight,” one of his homeboys said, confusing me.
Kairi is a female, so what nigga is he talking about?
“What did he say?” I asked Sony, frowning. The dude turned to look at me and then Sony.
“Uh, nothing,” Sony chuckled.
“We’re ready,” another approached and said.
I noticed his crew had a lot of weapons.
What did they need all that for?
Sony looked at his crew and nodded at them. I watched as five of them climbed into a black van and headed for Havoc’s house to kill Kairi.
“Sony, are you sure?” I asked because my stomach just wouldn’t stop churning. He asked me to lure Havoc away from the house so that they could get rid of Kairi, and I wanted to make sure that would be the end of it.
“Listen, I told you already. All we want is revenge. Since we all know it was Kairi, her death will set shit right,” he said with a smile. I narrowed my eyes at him.
“And you sure y’all ain’t after Havoc?”
They said they weren’t, but I wanted to be sure.
Sony chuckled. “Nah, he can have that shit. You know me, Trini. I’m not cut out to rule no kingdom. I just wanted the truth about what happened to my nigga.”
Sony explained that he only challenged Havoc because he thought it was him, which I said he was crazy to even think that. Nobody loved Hell as much as Havoc did, so I knew there was no way he would do something like that to his own brother.
The number of times I saw Havoc take a bullet for Hell, I knew he would rather die in his place than kill him.
So, it had to be Kairi. Now that they knew it was her, Sony told me they just wanted their lick back, and that would be the end of it.
I knew Kairi had to have fucked up Havoc’s head for him to even think about staying married to the person who killed his own brother.
Therefore, in a way, I was doing this to save Havoc too.
“All we want is Kairi, and this shit is over,” Sony explained. I nodded. That was all I wanted too. It wasn’t fair for Havoc to deal with this war when it wasn’t his doing. It was Kairi’s.
“But what about the fact she said it was for you?” I asked him, telling him what Shakur told me.
Sony laughed.
“You believe that shit?! I don’t even know that fucking bitch. Why would I try to rape her?”
I shook my head. That girl just continued to lie for no reason.
“But where did you send Havoc?” he asked. I looked at him like he was stupid to think I would tell him where Havoc was going. All Sony heard me say was that he needed to get to where Shakur was. Havoc knew exactly where to go, but I damn sure wasn’t stupid enough to give that location to Sony.
He laughed and threw his hands up in mock surrender.
“Anyway, let me get outta here and meet my pops. Once she’s dead, we’ll call a truce, I swear.” He put his right hand on his heart. I relaxed, knowing he wouldn’t lie to me.
Sony walked away and jumped in his car. I watched it speed away before I climbed into mine.
This was the only way to put things right.
Hell shouldn’t have died, so it was only right that the person responsible was taken care of.
Plus, maybe this was what Havoc wanted and just couldn’t bring himself to do it.
I’d heard that they hadn’t spoken since he found out and hadn’t even been staying at the house.
If he forgave her, why would he stay away?
Right then, I knew I was doing the right thing for both Hell and Havoc.
I started my car and headed in the direction of my house. In twenty minutes, I needed to call Havoc back and let him know that my friend was lying. By then, Kairi will be taken.
All I had to do was tell Havoc that she was gone by the time I went to his house, so I went out to look for her before going home.
I looked up and saw the exit for my house, but I didn’t get off for some reason.
“I need to see it,” I said to myself. I had to see it to make sure. As I got closer to Havoc’s house, I turned my car lights off. I passed the black van those niggas went in. They’d parked a little way from the house.
I drove my car to the back of the house, a route Havoc had shown me when he first bought the house. I then exited my car and entered the house through the back door.
“Where the fuck is Havoc?!” one of the men yelled.
I froze because why was he asking for Havoc?
“I’m not telling you shit!” I heard Kairi hiss.
“Bitch, I will kill you!” he yelled back at her. Even knowing she was about to die, Kairi wasn’t saying anything.
“Call that nigga and tell him to come home if he doesn’t want you dead,” another voice said. My brows knitted because that wasn’t part of the plan.
“Where’s the rest of them?” the second nigga asked.
“About to pull up.”
Rest of them? What rest of them?
Just then, I looked through a window and noticed another van coming our way, and right then, I knew that Sony played me. It was never a plan to kill Kairi—they were after Havoc.
What did I do??
“Call that nigga now!”
“I won’t! Kill me now because I would rather die than let y’all get him,” Kairi yelled back.
The van stopped, and six more niggas hopped out.
My breathing spiked as I wondered what to do. Releasing a heavy breath, I grabbed my gun from my purse and rushed into the room where Kairi was.
Pop! Pop!
I shot two niggas in the head that were standing over Kairi. When their bodies dropped, the other three turned their guns on me just as Kairi took off running to the closet.
“Shit,” I cried and ducked when bullets hit the wall behind my head.
I just managed to fall out of the room, missing their shots by inches. I crawled into the bathroom and kicked the door closed.
I heard the front door be kicked in, and I knew those other niggas had gotten into the house. They fired through the door, trying to hit me. I had to climb into the bathtub to shield myself. Then I heard their heavy footsteps coming upstairs.
I lifted my hand over the bath and fired again, then I heard a body hit the ground.
“Where’s the other bitch?!” someone yelled about Kairi.
“In the closet,” one responded.
“Nobody is there,” I heard someone else say.
Where the fuck did she go?
As I ran out of the room, I knew I had seen her go into the closet, so how could she be gone?
Someone tapped on the balcony window, scaring the fuck outta me. I relaxed when I saw it was Kairi. She was waving for me to come to her. I fired at the door again, drawing their attention, and got to Kairi on the balcony.
“Here,” she said, handing me two more guns. I noticed she had one in her hand too.
“Do you know how to shoot that?” I asked because if not, we were as good as dead. Kairi gave me a pointed look before she said, “Do you not know my husband? He’s been teaching me from the moment I set foot in this house. Now follow me.”
Instead of going into the bedroom, Kairi climbed up to the roof. I realized that was how she escaped from the bedroom. She led me to a door and used her thumbprint to open it.
We crept into the attic. All I could do was stare at her because I wasn’t expecting this at all. I half thought she’d get a chance to escape and leave me alone to die, but she came back for me.
“Come on,” she said, leading me over to the large picture frame. She put her hand on it, and it opened like a door. Of course, Havoc would build a house like a maze. He didn’t have to tell me; I know Sincere taught him that.
We walked down a pathway until we reached another door. Kairi put her finger up to her mouth, telling me to keep quiet, and then pressed her ear up against the wall. After a few seconds, she pushed it open and stepped out into Havoc’s den.
Kairi walked over to Havoc’s desk and typed something into his computer that brought up the cameras.
“Okay, there are three of them in the kitchen, the rest are upstairs searching for us,” she said, looking at me.
“I’ll go upstairs. If you go through this door, it will lead you to the kitchen. I know you got this, I don’t even have to ask,” she said, smiling at me. “You’ll know your signal when you hear it,” she said before grabbing a metal ball out of Havoc’s desk. I nodded.
Kairi then went back through the door we came through, and it closed behind her.
For the first time since I discovered this girl, I had to give her respect. In the face of danger, she didn’t even flinch.
I took a deep breath and headed through the door she told me. As I slowly crept toward the kitchen, I could hear the dudes talking.
Bang!
I almost jumped out of my skin when a loud explosion went off upstairs, followed by two gunshots. I knew that was the signal Kairi was telling me about.
“They’re upstairs!” I heard one of the three men in the kitchen yell out. They ran out into the hallway, and I lit their asses up. Once I saw them drop, I rushed upstairs to find Kairi. She came out of a guest room, and her shoulders dropped in relief when she saw it was me.
“They’re all dead?” I asked. She nodded.
I went to the rooms to see for myself. In one of the guest rooms, Kairi had killed two with the nail bomb I saw her take from Havoc’s desk. The other one she hit in the head in the master bedroom.
We double checked that everybody was dead, and then Kairi hit the panic button, alerting Havoc.
I looked at her like she was crazy.
“You mean to tell me, you could have done that from the beginning?”
Here we were playing GI Jane when all she had to do was hit a single button, and Havoc would have come back.
“I didn’t want them to get him just in case something went wrong,” she explained, and I had to give it to her because I never thought of that.
Clearly, Havoc was the target. Now it made sense why Sony wanted to know the exact location Havoc and Shakur were going to be.
If Kairi and I failed at getting them, they would have gotten to Havoc when he arrived.
I nodded my head and closed my eyes as I leaned my head against the wall.
I sniveled back my tears, knowing the outcome could have been so different, and I’d caused it.
I pried my eyes open to see Kairi sitting on the ground, just looking at the carpet. Her hands were shaking, showing me how scared she really was. Havoc might have trained her to shoot, but I knew now was the first time she actually had to use it on people.
I swallowed the lump in my throat, seeing the chaos I brought into her quiet life. Her new home was now filled with the smell of gunpowder and blood. Bodies of enemies I sent to her.
Moments later, I heard Havoc’s roar echo in the house.
“Kairi! Where are you?!”
“Yo, what the fuck happened?” Shakur voiced next.
“KAIRI!”
“I’m here,” she called out, slowly standing to her feet.
Havoc practically flew up the stairs. He didn’t even see me. His eyes were on Kairi only. He pulled her into his arms, and tears pooled in my eyes seeing the relief wash over his face, showing me just how much he really loved this girl, and I’d almost taken that away from him.
He pulled back to look at her and checked her for any injuries.
Surprisingly, and thankfully, she was good. We both were.
“What the fuck happened? And don’t lie to me,” Havoc said.
Kairi froze, and so did I, and then she looked at me!