Page 96 of Quasim III: King Inferno

She chuckled. “Never thought you would be negotiating with me, huh?”

“Doesn’t have to end like that. Face the music and tell them your side. I hear the US attorney is lenient and will give some grace if you get ahead of this before Mercer starts trying to cut a deal.”

“Mercer has the money for good fucking lawyers… I don’t have that. Money comes and goes, and it has been going. They won’t believe their precious surgeon general is responsible for this.”

He took another sigh. “I’ll help however I can. Lucia, face the music. Don’t allow this to drag your name down.”

I made the gun motion and put it to my head while swinging my foot. She stared at me as she looked down at the phone andgun in her lap. It was like she was trying to decide which path to take.

The path with Rick promising her that she could cut a deal, which he knew wasn’t the truth. Or the other path, that would grant her eternity with her husband.

The man that could never choose her.

Tears streamed down her face as she used her index finger to outline the phone in her lap. Leaning her head back on the cabinets, she continued to allow the tears to flow.

“Rick, it’s been great, you know?” She sniffled.

“Wh…what do you mean, Lucia?”

I watched as she wrapped her finger around the trigger of the gun, lifted it to her head, and looked at me. “It was easy being a pick me because no one ever picked m?—”

POW!

I was frozen in place, sitting in the chair, staring at her after she had blown her brains out. My heart was beating out of control, but I couldn’t bring myself to move from the chair.

Not even seconds later, I saw my brothers rush into the house with their guns drawn. Capone came over toward me and grabbed me from the chair.

Lucia’s head poured with blood as she leaned against the cabinet, and her eyes were open as they stared at me. Capone held my hand as he walked me out the house.

As much as I told her what to do, my body was in shock. Soon as I exited the house, everyone swarmed me and rushed me over to an ambulance. “Back the fuck up, I got her.” Capone barked, as they tried to grab me to get me there quicker. “Pri, give me the word and I’ll take you out of here.”

“I…I need Meer. Capone, I need him,” I stammered.

As the last word made it from my lips, Meer came limping over toward me with his hoodie pulled over his head and his head down and I rushed into his arms, not caring.

He kissed my head and looked me in the eyes. “Couldn’t fucking breathe while you were in there.”

“You came for me.”

“I’m always here, Sug. Never letting you get away from me and never too far from you.”

They were still trying to usher me to the ambulance, and I didn’t want to go. Meer held my hand as he fought through the crowd until we got to an SUV.

“Yo my man, get us off this block,” he told the driver, and he quickly rushed around to get into the truck, while Meer helped me and got in behind me.

“I need to hold the girls.”

He nodded his head, and I knew he was going to make sure we made it home so I could hold both Peach and Cherry. His lips never left my forehead as I rested my head on his chest. I could feel his heart beating out of his chest.

Knowing I was inside, and he couldn’t do anything was probably the scariest thing he had been through. I reached up and kissed his burns as he looked at me. “Never again, Sug.”

“Never again.”

Quasim

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