Leah's POV
Tuesday
7:20 am
I walk towards Zaidan leaning on his Range with Ivy in his hands.
Sometimes I even forget he has this car.
"A wah dat yuh have mi child inna?" I ask looking at what she's wearing.
"Clothes" he shrugs.
"If I were somebody walking to you from far away I would've mistaken her for a boy"
When did he even buy those shoes for her?
We're taking Ivy to the doctor. Her fever isn't as high as last night and I gave her some medicine but Zaidan insisted on taking her.
A BMW pulls up beside us and the window winds down.
"Don't move" the person says.
My eyes widen and a knot forms in my throat.
He gets into a fit of uncontrollable laughter and I look at Zaidan confused.
"Youth yuh know weh yuh just do?" Zaidan asks him.
"A likkle joke, how yuh suh dark bro?" he asks chuckling.
A feeling of relief washes over me.
"Yuh know mi did affi gi yuh a link pon yuh strong" he tells him.
"Gwan inna di car" he says handing Ivy to me along with the keys.
I open the vehicle and strap Ivy in her car seat before getting in the passenger's side.
I watch as the person steps out of the vehicle and the shades he had on are now off so I can see his face.
He has a big scar on his forehead and tattoos all over his neck.
My eyes find a familiar metal ring on his finger.
Zaidan has had the same one since I've known him.
He keeps it on even in the shower...
He takes out a stack of money from his pocket and hands it to Zaidan but it looks like he's refusing it.
He turns and walks to the car and I quickly look away.
"If a even double this" I hear the man say as they get closer to the vehicle.
"Yuh cya fucking pay mi, it coulda even be a billion dollar" Zaidan says.
"A diss thing?" he asks.
Zaidan gets into the car and closes the door.
His face stern.
"Suh a whore over money?" the man asks through the window.
"Wi need yuh back inna di place, a nice gyal dis but yuh really mek shi turn yuh inna dis...mi deven know wah fi say" he adds.
Wow.
I look over at Zaidan and he reaches for something in his waist.
He looks back at me and Ivy, I glimpse his gun but he puts his shirt back over it.
He chuckles and his eyes are darkened.
He starts the vehicle and drives off. I could swear he ran over his feet.
I normally would've cared, but now I don't...
Zaidan's POV
8:10 am
It's been 10 minutes since we've been at the doctor with Ivy.
When Ivy sees me she's the most unsettled so I had to step out and I needed some fresh air.
Why dah bredda yah choose fi fuck wid mi today?
A Aaliyah and Ivy save him enuh.
Him woulda regret every bloodclaat thing him say.
I open my phone to see it flood with notifications.
Reminding me it's my birthday...
Mi neva did put dis pon Do not disturb?
I put it on Do Not Disturb and slide it back into my pocket.
"Hey" Aaliyah steps out of the office.
"Weh dem say?" I ask.
"They said it's just a cold and I knew because she's breathing harder than usual"
We leave the doctors office and head down to the vehicle.
We get home in about 15 minutes.
I look over at Aaliyah, her eyes are barely open.
She has been sleeping the whole drive back.
"Yuh good?" I ask raising a brow.
"Yes...I'm okay" she says sitting up into the seat.
She wah guh party and cya manage it.
I look in the rearview to see an Audi pulling up behind me.
I look at the familiar license plate and I know that it's Blackman.
Aaliyah gets out of the vehicle and gets Ivy in the back.
"Soon come" I tell her.
She makes her way into the house with Ivy.
I walk over to the vehicle and when the door opens it's Blackman and Shoota.
Look how di man dem smoke up di car.
"Dawg how yuh look like a house yuh inna from morning?" Blackman says exhaling the smoke from his weed.
"A who dat?"
I look in the car to the sound of a voice in the backseat.
It's a old time friend Biggs.
He grew up with me in St. Thomas.
A nuff a dem enuh, a just who mek it out...
"A who dat a ask a who me, who yuh?" I ask jokingly.
"Bomboclaat dawg how yuh nuh high?" he asks clearly surprised.
Every man say di same thing.
"Yah fuckry man from long time enuh"
Everyone laughs and I laugh too.
"Yuh cya even gi dem man yah a spliff fi wul nuh more" Shoota says.
"Progess bro, mi wah stop to" Biggs adds.
"Stop chat shit, when since yuh wah stop?" Shoota asks.
"From wah day yah me a pree and me a say all di badness thing mi wah stop" Biggs say.
Shoota and Blackman get into a fit of laughter.
"Youth a joke yah mek?" Shoota asks.
"Anuh joke me a mek chargie, mi have mi woman now and a think me a think fi put on a ring pon har like such man. Mi just feel like wi need fi calm down dawg...anuh just now we a do dis enuh"
"Yah hear dah man yah" Blackman says to me.
I keep silent.
"Suh how yah gwan like yuh nuh have a problem wid it?" Shoota asks looking at me.
"Yuh cya just put down badness just suh, unless a dead yuh wah dead" I finally speak.
I've been thinking about it lately.
I know I can change for the sake of my family but it's not going to be easy.
"Mi all a hear say di place a get back hectic and man a start threaten man family down to pickney. Is a piece a food me a pree inna di night yah" Blackman says.
"Dawg a weh di fuck yah talk bout, just lowe out dat...from a man nuh violate none a wi dat good" I tell Blackman.
"Forward nuh mek wi guh dung a di restaurant, a suh yah guh inna house pon yuh strong?" Shoota asks.
"No man, mi good man...mi will link unuh later"
"Ah"
"Ah, we'll link again" Biggs says.
I bump fists with all of them and make my way into the house.
Aaliyah is seated on the couch and I'm guessing she put Ivy down to sleep.
"Yuh good wifey?" I ask leaning down to kiss her on her forehead.
"Who was the guy that came to you this morning?" she asks.
"One a mi old man friend dem"
"Why would he call me out of my name?" she asks.
My jaws clench.
"Yuh wah mi fi kill him?" my voice coming out calmer than I expected.
She gasps.
"No....no, Zaidan...please don't do that"
I chuckle.
"Likkle joke me a run" I tell her.
"Joke but if mi did say yes yuh woulda dweet" she says rolling her eyes.
"Why not?" I smirk.
"You need serious help" she says shaking her head.
If she thinks I need help now...
Imagine before she came into my life...
Leah's POV
8:42 am
"Are you okay?" I ask because of his sudden mood changed.
"Yeah mi good"
I close the door behind me and walk towards him by the bed.
He moves the balloon out of his way and closes the space between us.
"Love me?" I ask wrapping my arms around his neck.
"Nah fi ask dah question deh"
He tilts his head down and takes my lips into his.
My clit throbs and I squeeze my legs together at the feeling.
I put my hands up his shirt and trail my hands down his tattoos, I'm stopped by something hard and metal-ish.
I take the gun from his waist and open his bedside table, placing it in there.
We part from the kiss and he trails wet kisses down my neck.
A sigh escapes my lips and I throw my head back.
"Mi like dah move deh weh yuh just do" he whispers in my ear.
We're distracted by my phone ringing.
"Ignore it" his voice hoarse.
It stops and seconds after it rings again.
I glimpse over at it and it's his mom calling.
"It's your mom"
He hisses his teeth and sits on the edge of the bed.
I pick it up from on top of the bed stand and slide my finger across it.
"Morning dear, how are you?" she asks.
"Morning, I'm okay"
"I'm trying to call Zaidan and I'm not getting him"
"Oh...I'm not sure why but I can give the phone to him"
"Who is it?" he asks.
"Your mom"
I hand the phone to him and he takes it.
"Yeah mum"
He paces around the room with the phone up to his ear.
......
"Yuh cya wul medz youth?"
"Wonder if yuh know say mi will kill yuh and chop yuh up like yuh neva did even exist" I hear Zaidan say.
As I'm about to go downstairs, I'm stopped in my tracks.
"Yuh memba say a yuh father yah talk to?"
His father is here?
"Father weh lef wi pon wi mada and mek man kill mi bredda dem over di fuckry you did invlove inna?"
"Yah big bloodclaat man now and still a wul grudge fi dat?"
"Mi nuh business weh yuh wah say"
"Mi mek sure unuh did have a fucking roof over unuh head, is like yuh nuh memba dat.."
"Mind a dah gyal deh a turn yuh inna soft soap enuh"
"Nuh mention Aaliyah inna dis" his tone cold.
I make my way back into the room and close the door behind me.
So much is happening in one day...
My mind is all over the place.
Just because I don't want to go back to not updating for months so here...
By the way, are you guys seeing the pictures?