Chapter 26
Cairo
“Mannnnn, I told you to tell her.” Felix repeated himself after Kateri saw Victoria. I had no idea they were related at first because of how estranged they were.
Their father cheated on Victoria’s mother with Kateri’s who had no idea he was married until after getting pregnant with Mike.
Victoria’s mom threatened to leave him and take her two daughters if he had anything to do with Kateri or Mike.
Therefore, he never claimed them, signed their birth certificates, attended any parties, graduations or acknowledged them as his kids.
When I killed Victoria’s family, I made sure to kill each and every single member.
Unbeknownst to me and my team, no one knew about Kateri or Mike because there was never any contact with the father; ever.
I only found out when Raul stopped at her house to see Sariah, where we first saw each other.
I had Tom go down a rabbit hole to find out who Kateri really was.
Imagine my surprise hearing her and Victoria were sisters. I wanted to take her life before we went to the Cayman Islands, but Raul begged me to wait until we got back so his girl wouldn’t be mourning her while he was away.
It was hard not to kill her at first because she got on every one of my nerves. Kateri irked the fuck outta me and suffered a broken hand and almost drowned due to her reckless mouth and nosy behavior. It didn’t matter though because everyone knew she had to go.
Then she helped Rosalina hide the bruises that nigga left on her even though she knew I’d possibly kill her. She stayed away from me for the most part after her hand situation which wasn’t hard to do since I stayed at my mansion.
The envelope Rosalina dropped off at the house the day after my birthday while we were still on vacation, was the exact information Tom gave me which was why I put it through the shredder.
I didn’t want anyone to know and tip Kateri off by accident, especially my family.
They talked too much and since no one knew who she was anyway, I didn’t need them talking and not knowing she was around listening.
Long story short, when I showed up at Kateri’s house once I returned from the Islands, my goal was to take her, Mike and her mom’s life. They were collateral regarding my ex and had to go just for being related to her.
After following Kateri upstairs and she kissed me, the goal changed and I don’t know how or why.
I had to find out the type of person Kateri was and fucked around and fell in love.
Killing her was no longer and option and she had to be protected at all costs.
Now here we were having a staring contest because she learned Victoria was here.
It brought me back to how she ended up here and not dead like her family.
“What do you want me to do with her?” Rosalina asked. She stayed behind to make sure the fire chief was told how to handle the situation at the church.
“Take her to the spot.” I heard my sister giving out the command on where to take Victoria and let her know that we would speak soon.
After getting rid of Glenn, I went home to shower with intentions of going to bed.
However Victoria was heavy on my mind so I got dressed and drove myself to the spot.
Once I got inside, she turned around looking pitiful.
Still dressed in the wedding gown drenched in blood, her eyes were bloodshot red, and I’m not gonna lie, it hurt me in a way to see her that way.
But then I’d remember why she was there in the first place and pushed that hurt to the side.
“Why Cairo? You could’ve just killed me.” Pulling up one of the chairs, I sat in front of her. She posed no threat to me and being fearful of her would never happen.
“Killing you was too easy Victoria and you knew that.” I lit a cigar in front of her. It wasn’t my favorite and I did it because she hated the smell.
“You also knew the repercussions of fucking me over.” Blowing smoke directly in her face, she fanned it away.
“Their deaths was always in your hands and you chose to say fuck them. If there’s anyone to blame, let it be yourself.” She sat against the wall with her knees to her chest.
“I came here to say my last words because after today you’ll never see me again.” I needed to get certain things off my chest with her. I was dead serious about never coming here for her again.
“I deserved for you to step out, shit, you could’ve left me and I would’ve understood.” She didn’t say anything.
“Where you fucked up was sleeping with someone on my payroll. So not only did you get your family killed, you got his family murdered as well. That’s pretty selfish of the both of you, don’t you think.”
“Whatever Cairo. No matter who it was that I slept with, they still would have met their maker.”
“Be that as it may, your family would still be here and that baby you’re about to lose, won’t ever be born.” She grabbed her stomach.
“I loved you, Victoria the best I could or should I say, the way I knew how.” Sucking her teeth and rolling her eyes, she waved me off.
“I did. It wasn’t right for me to sleep around but I never slept with anyone unprotected. I couldn’t allow a woman to say she was carrying my child before my woman or soon to be wife. But you.” I shook my head in utter disgust.
“You let that nigga run up in you raw from the start.” I’m not sure if it were the case but in my head it was.
“Cairo.” Not wanting to hear any excuses, I continued.
“It’s all in the past now. I’m just here to let you know that your body will rot in here.” I stood to leave.
“Cairo please don’t do this.”
“You will be fed, there’s a shower in the corner, a toilet, once a week you will be moved into a separate room for the space to be cleaned out.” She ran over to grab my waist as I headed to the door.
“Oh, the food you ate an hour ago had medicine in it to make sure that baby doesn’t live. And if you didn’t eat it, I made sure to have it placed in the water bottle that you seemed to have drank all of.” I pointed to it on the floor.
“Cairo I’ll do anything. Please don’t leave me here.” I turned and lifted her head. She needed to see how serious I was.
“As bad as I wanted to kill you, I didn’t because of how much I did love you.” Using my thumb to wipe the tears streaming down her face.
“After a few months, the person cleaning this area will stop coming so regular. Every week will turn to every other week. Then, monthly and every other month. Then every few months and well, you get the drift. So if I were you, I would start thinking of ways to make this your home sweet home.” I had to laugh.
I wanted to make one more statement so she knew this was forever and not until I calmed down.
“But make no mistake Victoria.” I smiled.
“You will never see the light of day again.” Pushing her away, I walked out, locked the door and that was the last time our eyes met until this very moment.
“Cairo why is Victoria down here and when was the last time she ate or washed?” I shrugged. Food was dispensed to her four times a week and eventually it would be less and less.
“To be honest, I thought she’d be dead by now. I guess once the food stops she’ll go.” Nonchalantly speaking, Felix shook his head.
“Victoria can you hear me? Victoria.” Kateri patted her face to wake up. When she lifted her head and saw my girl standing there, it was like the exorcist came out.
“WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BITCH DOING HERE? GET HER AWAY FROM ME!” I pulled Kateri away.
Victoria jumped out the chair and tried to fight her.
It was actually pretty funny because she could barely move and reminded me of Pookie in New Jack City.
I couldn’t wait to tell Raul. He’ll probably be mad he wasn’t here to act out one of those scenes.
“Bitch?”
“Yes Bitch. I have always hated you, your brother and that ho ass mother of yours.” Before I could stop it, Kateri ran from behind me and was whooping Victoria’s ass. I turn to get Felix to help and that nigga was recording.
“Kateri if you lose my kid we’re gonna have a problem.” I pulled her off Victoria. She was ready to kill her.
After she took a shower I made her take three pregnancy tests and all of them returned as a positive. We hadn’t told anyone yet because she wanted to have a dinner and make it more of a surprise. I didn’t care as long as she was happy.
“Kid? You’re having a baby with that bitch.
Wait! Did you know she was my sister? That’s grimy as hell Cairo.
You left me down here for years over Glenn and you do the same thing.
” Victoria had some nerve tryna make me feel like the villain.
And besides, had I known Kateri was her sister, she would’ve been dead too.
“Bitch the difference was that I knew who Cairo was and that you were his ex. None of his family showed up to that fake ass wedding because they hated you.” My girl shouted.
“Say what now?” Kateri shocked the shit outta me. All this time I was trying to figure out ways to tell her and she knew.
“I didn’t know at first until we were at your mom’s party.
My brother mentioned the wedding and your cousins kept bringing up how they hated your ex Victoria.
Sariah asked what was her last name and that’s how I found out.
” She quickly explained how my cousins were going in about Victoria and how happy they were she was no longer around.
“Why didn’t you say anything?” Now I wanted to know why.
“Do you remember that was our first night together. I wasn’t messing up our evening discussing some ho ass bitch you used to fuck with.” Kateri was really on one right now and that shit was turning me on. Felix was in the corner cracking up.
“You can have my seconds bitch.” Victoria yelled.
“Seconds, never. I will always be his first because in about one minute, I’m going to take your life and you won’t even be a memory of his.” Kateri asked for my gun.
“Oh shit. Hand it to her, Cairo.” Felix was egging her on.