A Dangerous Game of Love (26 page)

“My fault for coming at you like that, I just need for everything to go accordingly.”

“So I basically need to become Niya’s shadow. That’s what you’re saying? You don’t think she or he will think things?”

Gio was about to answer but Gavin beat him to it.

“Fuck what he thinks, he better think as much as he can while he still can. Niy won’t think anything though. Just tell her you want to be close to her or something. Shit Nic is about to start staying with y’all so make her come over here as much as possible that’s all. You know, knowing Niy you probably won’t have to ask because she’s going want to be around Nicole all the time because of what happened.”

“True…but what you mean Nic is staying with us?”

This time Gavin decided to remain mute and let G fill his sister in, “The whole time at the hospital I noticed how Kendrick kept staring at her all crazy. At first I didn’t think anything of it, thought maybe he was just freaked out shorty got raped or something but now I know why. I don’t want to take any chances so she’s going to stay with us but I don’t want Niya to know yet, I don’t need her to slip up and tell him. If the way I’m thinking is correct, I need for him to think Nic is still staying at her house.”

Gia pieced together everything her brother wasn’t saying; she read in between the lines.

“You still got that gun I gave you?” Gio asked.

“Yeah it’s upstairs in my room.”

“Good, keep it on you at all times even when I’m around. It’s better to be safe than sorry.”

Sighing this was all becoming too much, but she knew it was necessary. She nodded her head yes.

“We need to go fill Nic in but I know Niy isn’t leaving her side anytime soon, we got to find a way around her.” Gavin stated.

“Leave that to me, I’ll get her away from Nic for a few. I’m going to head over there now; I’ll text y’all when it’s clear for y’all to go.”

“Iight cool. Be careful and bring that with you too. Let me know when you get there.” Gio said.

“I will big bro, you don’t have to worry.” Gi
a assured him with a smile….

To the guys it felt like they waited forever until they got that text from Gio telling them that she and Niya had left. Somehow she convinced Aniya to go with her to the mall to pick up new bedding for Nicole. Aniya only agreed after Gia told her Gio was on his way to keep Nicole company.

Convincing N
icole wasn’t as hard as they thought it was going to be. She told them that she didn’t feel safe staying alone so she was planning on going to Florida to be closer to her father. Knowing how Gia and Aniya would react to Nicole leaving Gio thought that they couldn’t have come to her at a better time. They had her go upstairs to pack a couple of bags so they could already have it in the car by the time the girls got back. Nicole was all for keeping Aniya in the dark about Kendrick, at least until they had more proof. Even though she saw and heard it herself, Nicole was still partially in denial maybe it was the fact that he wasn’t a stranger he was someone she knew. After she packed a couple of bags she gave them to the guys to put in the trunk minus the overnight bag.

Nicole left the guys chilling in the living room and headed back upstairs into her bedroom for some much need space. She just needed a minute to herself, to not think about what happened, to not have to see the pity on people faces, to be where things were normal. She just needed a minute to breathe. She sat in the window seal looking outside while having a talk with God asking him to give her the strength to get through each passing day and to somehow bring the truth to light.

Gio stood in the doorway staring at her, he had come upstairs to check on her but could tell now wasn’t the time. He was about to walk away but she called out to him, telling him to come in.

“You know you didn’t have to stand there, you could’ve come in.”

“I didn’t want to interrupt; you looked like you were having a moment,” he said once he went and sat next to her.

“You didn’t, where’s Gavin?”

“He left, you know him and Niya aren’t the best of friends. He didn’t want to make it even more uncomfortable so he left. You sure you ok though?”

“Yeah I’m ok; I just want to forget about it or try not to think about it. I can’t say thank you enough, but thank you Giovanni.”

“No thanks necessary but best believe and take my word when I tell you I’m going to take of this. I promise you that,” Gio said.

So close…but still not close enough…

So far keeping Aniya in the dark was going well, whenever she asked Nicole where she was she would always say on her way to Gia’s house, even though she was already there. The first night they all stayed at Gio’s house and the next day Aniya went back to her house but she was always calling and checking on Nicole. She did it so much Nicole had to tell her to stop calling, that she was stronger than she gave her credit for. Aniya took the suggestion and backed off….a little. The relationship between her and Kendrick became strained, it was like she was no longer a priority. She experienced these same side effects with Gavin, she wasn’t about to go through this with Kendrick. Kendrick told her that work got hectic and tried to assure her he wasn’t deceiving her.

What she nor Kendrick knew was that the guys had started keep tabs on him, for the past few weeks they would follow him whenever he left the house in the night, but that never got the result they needed. A couple of times Gavin was ready to follow him onto a dark road and pull up next to the car and just shoot his lights out, but that wouldn’t be the smart way to handle it. The fact that Kendrick had Aniya at his side when she was really supposed to be next to him is what triggered the hate for him.

One night the guys had followed Kendrick and Aniya back from having dinner, all the way back to Kendrick’s place. They were going to leave but something told Gio to stay put. In the end it paid off because a couple hours later, a little after one am, they seen Kendrick dressed in all black attire leaving his house. They waited a minute or two before following behind his car. Driving on the highway he signaled his blinker indicating he was getting off at the next exit, which was the exit that lead to Nicole’s house. Driving some more they followed him until they he turned onto Nicole’s block. Just like I thought, Gio said to himself as he pulled over at the empty spot on the corner.

Looking over in Gavin’s direction he told him, “He’s up to something I can feel it.”

“Word…but I’m ready for him,” Gavin replied as he pulled his gun from his waist and cocked it.

They waited for Kendrick to get out of the car but that never happened. Even after almost five minutes he remained in the park car.
Something wasn’t right, could this had been a set up?
“G…yo what the hell is he doing?” Gavin impatiently asked.

“I don’t know but I know he couldn’t have caught on to us because I kept my distance so I really don’t know why he’s still sitting in the car. Maybe he’s having second thoughts or something.”

A few parked cars ahead, Kendrick sat with his head thrown back as he jerked himself into ecstasy. Her image never left his mind from the last time he seen her. The images of her naked body covered in wax made his dick harden even more. Normally after he had one victim he was done with them and it was on to the next one, but this girl was different. He wanted just one more sample of her, he needed it…after he would put her lights eyes.

He had been ready to get outta the car but Aniya had called him stopping him in process. She had questioned his whereabouts and why he wasn’t home, lying to her he told her he had a taste for something sweet and was on his way back now.

Letting out a deep sigh, he begin to jerk faster as his climax begin building. Letting out a deep cry he let loose on his open thighs and lightly on the seat and instead of cleaning it up he began rubbing it in on his thighs as if it was lotion. The little that spilled on to the seats he wiped it up with his hands and rubbed it in against his face. With a crazed like smile he started the car then pulled off. All the while thinking,
we will meet again darling…I’m sure of it.

“Yo what the hell? Why is he leaving instead of going inside of the house? What’s really good with this nigga?”

“I don’t know G, just calm down I’m going to follow him, maybe he has someone else in mind,” Gio responded as he slowly followed behind Kendrick.

Gavin sat in his seat fuming as he bit the inside of his cheek. If you asked him, Gio was going about this all wrong, they had the perfect opportunity to pull up right beside the car and blow his brains out. He tried to get Gio to see where he was coming from but Gio told him that would be too sloppy. Not only would they leave the body in the car to be found, they didn’t know who saw them on the block. Even if it was late there could always be that one witness who seen everything. That was a chance he wasn’t willing to take, he continued to tell him that patience was a virtue. The right opportunity would present itself they just had to let it.

Kendrick pulled into a 24hour gas station while the guys waited at the corner for him. All they could do was shake their heads, it was as if they were on a wild goose chase. Figuring out his way of thinking seem to be more difficult then what they assumed. Noticing him walking back to his car they perked up and got ready to continue following him. In the end, they ended up back on Kendrick’s block watching him walk back inside his house. Saying they was pissed off would be cutting it lightly.

“This was a waste of my time I swear, this following this nigga is for the birds. I say we just cap him and be there for Niy as she’s grieving. Honestly what did we find out from tonight? Nothing…not a got damn thing,” Gavin irritably voiced.

Ignoring the part about killing him Gio told him, “I don’t even know, it doesn’t make sense at all. I thought for sure since he went to Nicole’s block he would do something. That might be my fault though, I see with him I got to stop thinking regularly and start thinking out the box. This nigga is crazy and that’s for sure. I’m going to have one of the lil homies on patrol, he’s going to sit and watch him. I’ll be sure to let him know that if he sees something to call us, but we out.”

Houston….we have a problem!

Their opportunity finally came about two weeks later. They had the lil homie Corey assigned to keeping tabs on Kendrick. On a late night he gave Gavin a call when he saw Kendrick on the move. At first Gavin was skeptical because of what took place the last time, so he basically brushed it off, until Corey told him that he was on the block he warned him about and was walking into the yard of the house he was shown.

Gavin begin to rip Corey a new ass for calling him so late, even though he himself told Cory not to call him unless he was actually doing something incriminating, but why in the hell did he wait for him to go in the house?

“Keep your eyes on him. Do not let him out of your sight either. If you have to shoot him to stop him from leaving then so be it. We’ll be there in like ten minutes,” Gavin yelled into the phone. He didn’t bother to wait for a response he just hung up.

Gio heard Gavin’s end of the conversation, he knew what was going on without having to be told. He started packing away the money they were counting before they got the phone call. Once the money was securely in the safe, they grabbed their guns, ran to the car and hit the road. Speeding down the highway as if they were on a high speed chance, thankfully no cops were in sight.

When the guys got to Nicole’s house they quickly pulled into a space. Getting out Gavin looked around trying to see if he could see where Kendrick parked but he only saw Corey’s car parked a few houses away. Entering the house with their guns drawn, they proceeded to search the entire downstairs. Finding nothing they were making their way upstairs, at the bottom of the stair case laid Corey, banged and bruised, while softy groaning out. Gio went to help him stand up, that’s when they noticed he had a busted lip and one of his eyes were swollen.

“What the fuck happened to you?”

“Nah fuck that, where he at?”

“He got away…” Corey mumbled.

Gasping in disbelief. Gavin took a step closer and asked through gritted teeth, “What you say lil homie? I know you didn’t just say what I think you did. You
going to have to speak up. Now repeat that for me…where you say he at?”

“G calm down.”

“Nah don’t tell me to calm down…I’m going to need you to tell me what you just said,” he said, turning his attention back to Corey.

“I said…I said he got away…”

BAM…

What happened next was unexpected. Gavin fist connected so hard to Corey’s face, it knocked him off of his feet. Corey laid back on the floor as Gavin towered over him, throwing blows, each connecting to a different body part. Gio quickly intervene pulling Gavin up off of him, holding him back. Corey was no match for Gavin period, but with Gavin angry at the world he really wasn’t any competition.

“G, you got to chill before you kill him. You letting your frustration out on the wrong dude. I mean lets at least hear him out,” Gio yelled to him once again playing the peace maker.

“Nah it’s on the right person. That’s nothing compared to what I’m going to do to the other. All this one had to do was to keep his eyes on him and not let him get away. His incompetent ass couldn’t even do that. I swear you can’t have a boy do a man’s job yo. They all useless,” Gavin yelled out, not once did he take his eyes off of Corey.

Gio continued putting distance in between Gavin and Corey.

“
Cor…tell me what happened beginning to end and don’t leave anything out either.”

Taking a deep breath first, “Iight so when I first seen him drive on the block I didn’t think anything of it because he was just sitting there or whatever car running and all. Then he turned it off and got out and
started walking no damn near running to the house, that’s when I called y’all and Gavin said to follow him. So I did, but by the time I got outta the car he was already in the house, so I put a pep in my step. I ain’t never been in that house so I didn’t know where the hell I was going. I ran into a garbage can by accident and it fell.”

“Are you fucking kidding me?” Gavin loudly asked.
He got to be the dumbest nigga I know.

“What happened next?” Gio asked.

“I didn’t even think he heard it because he didn’t come downstairs or anything.”

“Why the hell would he? He was setting ya ass up and you fell for it dummy.”

“G…
CHILL
…let him finish.”

“I finally made it to the stairs and as I was coming around them to go upstairs he hit me straight in my face and started attacking me. I fought back but he still had the upper hand. I tried to get my gun out and when I did it jammed. I was struggling with him and my gun at the same time, he punched me again. All I felt was him kicking me then I felt nothing. I don’t know I guess I blacked out because when I opened my eyes he was gone and y’all were here.”

“You are a dumb nigga and that’s my word. Get the fuck outta my sight before I finish beating ya ass yo.”

“Gavin I swear it wasn’t my fault. I tried,” Corey pleaded.

“Did you not hear what I just said?” he asked as he tried to side step Gio.

“If I was you, I would leave,” Gio warned.

Dropping his head in defeat he held his ribs as he limped outta the house.

When all else fails…

After Corey’s departure, Gavin and Gio stayed backed trying to figure out what their next move was going to be. Kendrick had to know that someone was watching him now, exactly what they tried to avoid in the first place. Gavin walked around ranting and raving then all of a sudden stopped. It suddenly clicked to him, they didn’t have Kendrick but they had enough proof to prove to Aniya what kind of man Kendrick was. All wasn’t failed, running upstairs he headed for Nicole’s bedroom. Moving in a quick manner he went into her closet and moved the shoes boxers from the back of the closet.

A couple days after Nicole moved into Gio’s, Gio had took her house keys and had a set made for himself. Since they knew Aniya wouldn’t just go by hear say, they had one of their people go and install hidden cameras all throughout Nicole’s house.

He pulled the floor board back and took the disk from out of the monitor. Smiling to himself, finally they were making some sort of progress.

Walking back into the living room, Gio observed Gavin’s sudden mood change and was confused.

“What’s good with you? Why you so calm all of a sudden?”

“Because Niy is leaving that bastard…and she will be mine again…sooner than she thinks too.”

“What? What the hell are you talking about?”

“I got all the proof we need to expose that nigga,” Gavin said. He begin walking to the door like he didn’t have a care in the world.

Following behind him Gio asked, “Proof? Where the hell you get proof from?”

“Remember how we installed those cameras.” Realization sunk in once he said that, “Oh yeah how could I forget that?”

“I don’t know but I’m ready to get my girl back.”

“Wait…let’s think about this, you can’t just drop this on her like that and expect her to not only be ok with it but to go back to you.”

“I can and I do and it will happen like that. She won’t be alone though I’ll be right there helping her through it all,” Gavin replied.

Knowing his mind was made up Gio said nothing else. He just hoped everything went the way Gavin thought it was going to….

When he left out the house he knew something wasn’t right, he drove his car a couple of blocks over but walked back to Nicole’s house. Hiding in a bush he watched everything. He seen when Gavin and Gio ran into the house, he even saw when the first guy that was in there with him come limping out. He needed to get the hell outta dodge and quickly. He figured they knew he was behind the rape but then again maybe they didn’t know, he never met that guy so he couldn’t name him and they had no reason to suspect him, but just in case he would leave town for a few.

Checking to make sure the coast was clear he quickly jumped out of the bushes and ran back to his car.

Pulling up in his driveway to fast he drove over the curb, but he didn’t care. Racing in the house he quickly threw together a bag of clothes to take with him before heading back out. While in route of heading south, he called Aniya and explained to her how he just received word that his grandmother was ill and he was on his way to be with his family. She told him that he and his family was in her prayers and for him to keep her updated. He promised he would, before hanging up he told her he loved her. It wasn’t his first time saying it, he said it quite a few times to her but she never could bring herself to say it back, her heart wasn’t in. she liked him but she was still in love with someone else. Getting an ok from her he hung up and focused on the road….

The next day Gavin was at Gio’s door bright and early. He was so anxious that the whole night he tossed and turned. He barely got two hours of sleep but he was fully energized. As soon as his alarm went off he turned it off and got up. He worked out trying to tire himself some, but no such luck, cooked him breakfast, shower then got dressed before heading out. He figured he gave everyone enough time to wake up but if not then they were going to get up. He had nothing standing in the way of getting his girl back anymore, everything was handled or almost handled. Jayla was a thing of the past, he had completely cut her off…but for forever this time.

After the big blow up at Gia’s party, he didn’t speak to her for a few days. Each time she called he would send her to voicemail and he would make sure to park his car in the garage so she wouldn’t know if he was home or not. One night when he was twisted outta his mind, he called her up telling her to come take care of his hard-on, which she happily agreed. Being heavily intoxicated, it caused him not to think straight, which caused him to enter her without any protection. He somehow managed to pull out and nut on the bed instead of inside of her. After he was done with her he sent her back on her merry way and started avoiding her once again.

A couple weeks later he woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. The moment the pee started coming out a sharp pain surged throughout his entire penis, the pain was so intense it brought tears to his eyes. Looking down he noticed a discharge oozing outta it. While gripping the wall he pushed the rest of the pee out, while biting his lip. He bit into it so hard he started to draw blood, but he didn’t care. Once he was finished he was breathing all hard as he threw on anything, never caring how he looked and rushed to the ER.

Couple of hours later he walked outta the hospital with a prescription of antibiotics to treat the chlamydia he transmitted. After getting the prescription filled he had one thing on his mind; to find Jayla and kick her ass. Normally he would never put his hands on a female but she deserved the ass whooping she had coming her way. He knew she was the one that gave it to him because she was the only one he had slept with since the breakup with Aniya. Finding Jayla ended up with Gavin being handcuffed and brought to jail for domestic violence. Thanks to his right hand man Gio, the charges were later dropped when Jayla didn’t show up to either of the two court dates. He later found out that her and her family packed up and moved outta state.