i sure hope y'all know every character name in this book cause everybody in this chapter 💁🏽‍♀️. excuse errors and mistakes tho.

- 𝚂𝙰𝙸𝙶𝙴 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙰𝙻𝙴𝚂.
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𝙰𝚝𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊, 𝙶𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚊

"So what the hell we supposed to do with her when she wakes up?!" I heard a familiar voice.

"You asking me like I'm really supposed to know!"

My eyes opened and I sat up from where I was and that's when the two people stopped talking. My vision was blurry but when it focused I was confused.

"Hi Saige." Qura walked over to me with Bailey standing next to her.

"Ja'Qura, what the fuck?" I stood up from the bed and looked at my surroundings and I was in a basement or something similar to one.

"Surprise." She smiled. "Bailey gimme it."

Bailey did as told and pulled something out of her back pocket. Once she handed it to her I realized it was a knife.

I backed up some until my back came in contact with the wall so I couldn't go anywhere.

"Do you know that because of you, my daughter gotta grow up without her father?" She looked at me.

"You was with them this whole time?"

"The whole time? No. Recently? Yes."

"For what?" I looked at her in disbelief. She was supposed to be my best friend.

"Calvin put me on, it's money. You know how much you worth Saige?" She tilted her head to the side.

"Everybody around you don't really fuck with you the way you think but you been so blind. Amari? Fake. Hakeem? Fake. That's what you get for tryna use him as a rebound. Tati and Macy gonna hate you for being involved with the way Tyrone and Poochie died, and Regina gonna side with them. Aaron so oblivious to everything so you don't even have to worry about him."

"Your sister dead as hell, yo daddy don't want shit to do with you, your momma and marco barely pay attention to you now. All you got left is Serg, and I don't see him nowhere around these parts." She looked around the room.

"Okay you been talking for too long let me go." Bailey said as she walked over to us.

"I know you remember me." She said.

"Yeah, and I also remember beating yo ass." I looked at her and all she did was laugh.

"Let's see if you have that same energy when they kill yo ass. You and Serg deserve what's about to happen to y'all today. Early rest in peace." She looked me up and down.

"Hakeem told us you pregnant, yes?" Qura asked.

When she realized I wasn't gonna respond she took the knife and plunged it into my stomach, causing me to drop to the floor and yell in pain.

"Now, ima call Serg and you gon tell him that you're in trouble and need his help." Qura explained.

"I'm not setting him up." I said as I put my hand over my stomach.

"You don't got no choice. You either tell him or we can just kill you now and get it over with. That first stab wasn't nothing serious, but the next one won't be so nice." She told me. She sat my phone down in front of me, went to my call log, and tapped on his number and it started ringing.

He didn't answer on the first ring so she tried again and eventually he did.

"What? And it better be important." Serg said on the other end.

I was about to talk but Bailey picked up the phone instead.

"Girl what are you doing?" Qura watched her.

"Hey Sergio." She said into the phone.

"Why the fuck you got her phone? Where Saige?"

"On the floor. Bleeding a lil. Waiting for you to come save her." She looked down at me.

"Bro. Put her on."

"I can't do that. But I can text you the address so you can come get her, or try to."

"Serg don't come!" I said loud enough for him to hear.

Bailey hung up the phone and started typing something on it.

"You better hope he loves you as much as he says he does. Cause if I was him? I wouldn't come." Qura said.

Her and Bailey left the room and Amari came in.

"Saige." He walked over to me. "She stabbed you?"

"Nah." I said sarcastically and winced a little.

"It don't look bad but you losing blood." He took off his jacket and lifted me up some.

"Don't touch me Amari." I told him.

"I'm tryna help you."

"You didn't help me earlier so don't try to now." I shook my head. He ignored me and tied his jacket around my stomach.

- 𝚂𝙴𝚁𝙶𝙸𝙾 𝙻𝚈𝙾𝙽 | 𝚂𝙴𝚁𝙶

"Where is you going?!" Tati asked as I walked into the living room with my gun in my hand.

"I gotta do sum. I'll be back." I told her. "Gina stay with her."

"Okay." She said.

Without saying shit else I walked out the house and got into my car. I cleared everything out of my head and focused on Saige. That's all I needed to do.

My phone dinged and I looked at it and seen the address that bitch Bailey sent me.

It took me a minute but I knew where it was, my old house. I started the car and pulled out the driveway and started speeding down the road.

BACK TO SAIGE.

"What's the point of all of this? I don't get it." I looked at Amari.

"A whole lot." He said. "This all because Serg pops want revenge."

"On who?"

"Serg momma, the whole story fucked up." He shook his head.

"Tell me." I said. It went silent for a minute then he started talking again.

"His dad never wanted kids but his momma did, he only got her pregnant with Tyrone and Poochie so she could be quiet about wanting em. Over time he started getting abusive, hitting her, raping her. She wanted to leave but when she was about to she got pregnant with Serg and Tati so she stayed."

"But after a while she just got fed up. She couldn't off him so she got some niggas from the other side to. They thought they got him but they didn't. He let everybody think he died and spent months plotting on how to get back at her for it but she got her karma and ended up sick."

"That wasn't enough for him tho, he needed more than that. Serg was always the closest to their mom and was the one she favored so he picked him out. He waited for him to grow up, he been planning this shit out for years. You just moved out here at the wrong time. He started seeing how much you meant to his son so he making him suffer with you." He explained to me.

I looked at him in shock. I can't believe somebody would go through all of this because of something they deserved.

"What you mean making him suffer with me?" I asked once I came back to reality.

"He been watching you ever since you got here. Your sister? He did that. Well he made Hakeem do it. He knew Hakeem liked you so that's how he involved."

"What about you, Qura, and Bailey?"

"I swear ian want no parts. But they needed somebody on the inside so they chose me I guess." He shrugged. "Qura got involved cause of Calvin. Him dying triggered her so now she acting more crazy than she usually do. And Bailey? Ion really know. She just involved cause of how you and Serg treated her."

I sat there, overwhelmed by what he was telling me. This was all crazy.

The door opened and Sergio walked in.

(not her nigga, the daddy 🙈)

"He here. Bring her here." He told Amari.

Amari helped me up from the floor and took me over to him. A boy snatched me up and held my hands behind my back and led me out the room.

We walked upstairs and they took me into the living room and I felt relived when I saw Serg standing in the middle of the room.

"Don't even think about it lil mama." The boy told me and tightened his grip on my arm.

BACK TO SERG POV.

"Let ha go." I pulled out my gun and aimed it at the dude who had Saige.

"Don't do that." Somebody said.

A familiar face walked into the room. I just stared at him cause I figured out who it was.

"You ain't gonna greet the nigga who helped put you on this earth?" He asked me.

"Bro let her the fuck go." I looked over at Saige. She was really depending on me to help her and I could tell just by the way she was looking at me.

"Nah." He started walking over to me. I was finna shoot his ass but that would just put Saige in more danger so I had to go about this the smart way. "Gimme the gun first."

She was shaking her head no but if I wanted to help her I had to.

I looked back at him before I handed him the gun.

"See you just fucked up right there son." He turned around and pulled the trigger. Her body dropped down to the floor and I watched as she started to bleed out.

"Ian fuck up. You did by thinking I was finna come here by myself." I said. Deshawn, Deuce, Jared, and Julian bursted through the front door and shots went off.

I quickly went over to Saige and got her out of the house. I seen she was losing way more blood than before so I had to act fast.

I put her into the car and started driving towards the hospital. I looked in the backseat every other minute to make sure she was still breathing.

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