Page 88 of Search My Soul
“Huncho, can you bring the bag over here?” I requested, then focused my attention back on Juicy. Damn, even after all of this, nobody could hold a candle to her beauty. She was truly in a league of her own.
“Here you go, bossman.” He handed me the bag before stepping back to the other side of the room. It was clear he wanted to be present while giving me space.
I opened the bag and revealed the decapitated head of her accomplice. Juicy turned her head and vomited all over the floor, but I didn’t give a damn about any of that.
“Where is my money?” The question was simple and to the point, but my patience was growing thinner by the second. I had grown tired of people not having the answers I needed or refusing to give them. Everyone else involved would be dead by the end of the night, so she was my only hope to get the answers I needed.
“Did you hear what the fuck I said?” I raised my tone after she ignored me. Shorty was already on thin ice, but this game she was playing wouldn’t end well for her.
“You’re gonna kill me anyway, so why should I tell you anything? Huh? Since you already know everything, then you should be able to answer the question on your own,” she spat.
I chuckled angrily as I attempted to calm myself down. I should have stuck to the plan, but my mind wouldn’t rest until I got to the bottom of things.
“You think this shit is a game? After all the time you’ve spent around me, I thought you were smarter than this. Maybe I did you a disservice because I tried to spare you from meeting this side of me.”
“It doesn’t matter which side you show me, it won’t change shit. If your plan is to kill me, then there is no reason for the twenty-one questions. At the end of the day, I messed up. Did I know it was your money at the time we did the job? No. However, none of it matters now. The damage has been done, and I can’t take the shit back,” she answered. I heard the crack in her voice, but she tried to put on a strong face as if she wasn’t afraid.
“You’ve got a lot of attitude when you were the one who fucked me over. You looked a nigga dead in his eyes and lied to me every night like it was nothing. Tell me something, was this all a game to you? Huh?”
“The fact that you even have the nerve to ask me some dumb ass shit like that tells me everything I need to know. How can you sit here and question my love for you? What reason would I have to pretend to love you? I didn’t need you for anything.”
“Well, clearly not when you already stole two million dollars from me. You expect me to believe you knew nothing about me, but you knew who my cousin was. At the party, you pretended that it was the first time you met each other, but that was a lie wasn’t it?”
“I froze when I saw him. I had no idea he was the same man I helped rob. When I saw him, I panicked because I thought hewas going to expose me. I planned on telling you the truth, but I was afraid of how you would react. I never meant for any of this to happen.” Tears slid down her face, and for a moment I almost fell for it. Until I remembered that she laid next to me every night since the party and said nothing. Besides, I wasn’t sure if I believed her due to the fact that they were both at the same house together last week.
When I asked why her location was off last Wednesday, she claimed that her phone died, and she left her portable charger. It happened before so I thought nothing of it until now.
“When’s the last time you saw my cousin?” Her eyes widened in fear. Right then, I knew she had fucked me over.
“I-I,” Neeya stuttered, sending me into a rage. This bitch had really played me, and it upset me even more because I still loved her grimy ass.
“What the fuck are you stuttering for, bitch? You might as well answer the question because I already know the truth.” Her eyes closed as more tears fell from her eyes.
“I swear it’s not what you think. They set me up! I-I didn’t know the money was yours.”
“You expect me to believe you robbed someone, but you had no idea who you were robbing? Let’s not forget that you and my cousin were both in on the shit together.”
“No, no! I swear I had no idea! They played me. He was trying to get me to help him set you up, but I told him no!” I laughed again because baby girl was digging herself into an even bigger hole.
“Come on now. First, you said that you didn’t know who the money belonged to and now you’re telling me that he wanted you to set me up. Which one is it?”
“You’re not listening to me. I’m trying to explain.”
“Naw, your ass is trying to lie, and the shit isn’t working out. I don’t even care about any of that anymore. I’m gonna ask you one more time. Where the fuck is my money?”
“Majesty took the majority of it. I used some to pay bills, but the rest of the money is still at my old apartment.”
“Damn, shorty. I can’t believe you got a real one like this. You had a nigga ready to buy a ring so I could marry your scamming ass, and you were sitting back planning the biggest lick of them all huh?” I scoffed. I was so disappointed in myself for missing the signs. If I hadn’t found out the truth when I did, who knows what would have happened. I probably would have ended up dead.
“No. I wasn’t trying to steal from you, Soul. Yes, I should have told you what I had done sooner, but I was in a fucked up position. My family needed the money, or they were going to be killed. I was in a desperate place and that money seemed like the answer to my prayers. When we got together, I wasn’t expecting us to get this close nor was I expecting you to be the owner of the money. I asked Majesty who the money belonged to because I had a feeling it would come back to bite me in the ass, but I never imagined things would turn out this way.
“When I met up with her recently that’s when I discovered that your cousin was in on it. I’m telling the truth, Soul. He is trying to take you down, and he threatened to kill my people if I didn’t help him. You can choose to believe me or not, but I’m telling the truth. I love you and I never intended for any of this to happen.”
“I’ll give it to you, lil baby. Your acting skills are top tier. However, I don’t give a fuck about all of those tears. Y’all mothafuckas played a dangerous game when you fucked with my bread and plotted against me. Now you gotta answer for that. Do you have any last words or prayers before you die?” I stood upfrom my seat. All of the tears and shit had me conflicted, but I had to remind myself that she was a liar.
“You can go ahead and kill me because I won’t beg for my life. Yeah, I fucked up, and I’ll own that. However, you’re so caught up in trying to get revenge that you can’t even see the truth for what it is. What I did was wrong, but I never did it to hurt you. Nothing about our relationship or my love for you was fake, but you should already know that. Tell Normandee, Puma, and my siblings that I love them.” Juicy looked me up and down before rolling her eyes. I swear this shit only confused me more. Was I in the wrong? How could that even be a question when she was the one who lied to me?
“Murk keeps calling. I know you said you ain’t want to talk to anyone, but it might be important,” Huncho said. The only thing he would be calling for was to discuss Neeya and there wasn’t shit for us to talk about.
