Chapter 12
Cairo
“Let me holla at you playboy.” I called out to Ed when Rosalina went to the bathroom. Here it was my birthday celebration and I had to deal with some bullshit.
“Ummm, Rosalina will be looking for me.” He refused to move from the bathroom door. Regardless of the times my sister brought him to my parents’ house, I never spoke to this nigga until today.
“She’ll be alright. I wanna make sure we’re clear on a few things.” Still frozen in fear, he stayed put. I nodded to Raul and watched him walk over to Ed.
“He didn’t give you an option. Move!” Raul pushed him toward the elevator. As we stepped on, Felix was waiting with the machete and duct tape in a bag that I requested. Ed tried to run off but the doors closed in his face.
Raul pressed the button for the basement in which we had a key for thanks to management. There’s nothing people wouldn’t do for the right price and over here, that wasn’t much.
“It seems that you have a hand problem.” Pulling the blunt from my ear and lighting it, the doors opened and a few of my men were awaiting Ed’s arrival.
“Huh? I didn’t hit anyone. Did Rosalina tell you that? No, she couldn’t have because I’d never hit her.” Tossing my head back laughing at him lying to save his life, I removed the machete from Felix’s hand and swung. There was no need to waste time on getting rid of Ed.
“Damnnn, how you get both hands at once?” Raul jumped when Ed’s hands hit the floor.
Handing the machete to Felix, I stared in Ed’s face.
Not only did I want to be the last person he saw, but he needed to know I was very aware of all his secrets.
It didn’t take long at all because in my eyes he wasn’t even hiding them.
“After you put your hands on Rosalina, I made sure the woman you brought over here to disrespect my sister drowned. Your two secret kids with her met their fate as well in a car crash with your father and well, your mother was damn near dead anyway; she died from suffocation. Did you know a pillow can suffocate a person fast depending on the strength of who was doing it?” Ed couldn’t say much due to losing so much blood from his hands being cut off, but he wasn’t dead yet and heard me loud and clear.
“Last but not least, how does it feel knowing your bloodline was erased. Your family wasn’t big anyway but Rosalina will never have to worry about someone from your family tree haunting her.” I backed away, nodded to one of the other guys and watched as Ed’s head was detached from his body.
“I tell my mother all the time I’m glad Aunt Anabel is my aunt and that I’m not your enemy.” Raul joked. He always assumed my mother would save him from my wrath if he did some fucked up shit and I’d have to kill him. Sad to say that no one could escape their fate when it came to me, family or not.
“Whatever.” I waved him off and told them we had to go change and get back to my party. Well I did for the most part due to Ed’s blood getting on me.
When I returned, my mother cursed me out saying I should’ve never left and a lot of people were looking for me. It didn’t matter to me since everyone was either family or close friends and saw me all the time.
Now I just finished listening to them sing, Happy Birthday,” and the lights went dim. The guy who worked for me were escorting my older family members out which only meant things were about to get nasty and I was here for it.
They had some strippers earlier to dance for everyone but as Raul would say, they were baby ones. The PG kind who didn’t remove any clothing and it wouldn’t be too provocative. But the ones they had coming out now had to be the rated R ones.
“Is the mic on?” Lifting my head from my phone, Rosalina stood at the DJ booth with the microphone in her hand. I knew damn well she wasn’t about to do anything inappropriate in front of me.
“I just wanted to tell my brother, “Happy Birthday and how much I love him before those skanks came out.” You could hear the laughs amongst the men.
“You’ve always protected me from a lot growing up and even though others see you as an unlikeable person, I wanted them all to know that you’re the opposite of that.
You have the heart of gold and love everyone to a fault with no expectations.
After daddy, you are my hero and I love you very much.
” I smiled and watched Raul step over by the DJ booth and snatch the mic from her.
“Rosalina, you don’t have to fill his head up with lies because he’s ok with you and Felix being a couple.” My sister’s mouth fell open. No one knew about them yet since it literally just happened. She was mad as hell and started cursing him out.
“Whatever.” He mushed her in the forehead.
“Felix come get your girl so we can see some coochies pop and ass shake.” Raul handed the DJ back the mic and pushed Rosalina off and towards Felix. Shaking my head, I put my phone up when the music started and fake smoke started to fill the room.
“Yesssss.” Raul rubbed his hands together plopping down in a seat next to me.
“Nigga, ain’t your girl back at the hotel?” He told me yes and that’s why he could enjoy the strippers. Accepting a cigar from him, I lit it and enjoyed the show. Cigars weren’t really my thing but I did indulge once in a while.
“You’re sexy as hell. I wanna go home with you.” One of the strippers spoke in my ear and I’m not gonna lie, she was bad as fuck. Body was perfect, face nice and hair swinging down her back, yet there was one problem.
“If you don’t get your bad breath out my face, I’m gonna choke the shit outta you.” Her body stopped moving.
“I told you to pop a mint before we came out.” The stripper dancing with her said making the other chick mad.
“Fuck you and him.” Now why did she have to say that. Wrapping her hair around my hand, I slammed her on the ground, pushed the other chick away and stomped the bitch out.
“I told her not to talk shit to you but hey, people listen to who they want to.” The stripper knew me well from visiting many times and actually fucking her whenever I’m here. She had plans on us having a threesome with that very woman because we spoke earlier about it.
“Damn, we can’t take you nowhere.” Felix laughed, gesturing for two of the guys to come get that chick.
“That’s her fault. I told her not to try Cairo and she didn’t listen.” Shorty responded so I didn’t have to.
“I’ll be back.” Rising up outta my seat, I stretched, grabbed my cigar and stepped out the patio door of the hotel.
Making my way down the stairs and onto the sand, I stood there taking in the full moon that lit up the entire beach. There were a few couples walking together and some lonely stragglers probably looking for a good time with a stranger.
“If I weren’t terrified of you, I’d mention how handsome you look.” Turning around to see who the person was, a snarl came across my face.
“You’re terrified of me yet still managed to say I’m sexy. You don’t even make sense.” Kateri rolled her eyes.
“First of all, I didn’t say sexy; I said handsome and you broke my hand so yea, I’m scared of you.” She stood there with an attitude.
“Why you standing there looking stupid then? You said what you needed to, move on.” Blowing smoke from my cigar in the air, I waited for her answer and something told me it would be a dumb one.
“That’s because I’m cursing you out in my head, trying to punch you in the face and beating you up telepathically.” I started laughing hard as hell.
“Just know, I’m really whooping your ass too.” She pursed her lips in the air. After getting myself together, I took another pull of my cigar.
“As long as it’s in your mind, who cares.” Sucking her teeth, she tried to storm off and fell face first in the sand. Instead of helping her up, I used my foot to kick more sand on top of her.
“What are you doing?” She rolled over.
“I figured you were tryna bury yourself under the sand so I was helping.” Shrugging my shoulders, she got on her knees before standing.
“You know, I have met some ignorant and downright disrespectful men in my life but you are by far, the most horrible one I’ve ever encountered.
” Wiping the sand off her clothes, her eyes met mine and for the first time I saw the lust she had for me.
The biting down on her lip, the twinkle in her eyes and the way she moved closer without realizing it.
“Bitch back up.”
“Ughhhh, I was trying to…” I cut her off.
“What? Fuck; suck my dick, what? Because being that close could be the only thing you want.”
“Why do I even try to be nice?” She backed away with her hands up.
“Look, it’s my last night here and I did not expect to see you or to fall.”
“But you did and I’m not tryna add new bitches to my dick list this week. I’ll let you know if I have room when I get back to the states.” The way her face contorted into anger made me laugh again. She was easily offended and I had no problem doing it.
“I would say have a good night, but then I don’t want you too. I want your night to be horrible. I want you to fall somewhere or drown in the water when you’re taking a swim; something, anything just to have a bad night.” She was stomping away in the sand.
“Now who’s being disrespectful?” I yelled behind her.
“Me and so what.” She started to walk backwards.
“Oh, do me a favor don’t look me up when you’re back in the states. I don’t want to be part of your, “Dick list” She put her hands up in quotes.
“And another thing.” I already knew what was about to happen before it did and started shaking my head. Warning Kateri would be too easy and besides, I needed another laugh.
“Stay awayyyyyyyyyyy.” Her voice trailed off when her foot fell into the small hole right by the water. I almost used the bathroom on myself when a wave hit Kateri from behind. Once the water receded, her body was slowly being dragged into the ocean.
At one point there were people walking by but now not a soul was around. I did what was best and headed inside since that’s what everyone else did.