Page 233 of Lau Ahi
She knew staying would make her a target but if she left then everyone’s focus would be on me. They’d have more eyes on me to prevent anything from happening to the bloodline. Noone wanted James or even Theo to take over and things worked exactly as she’d thought. It was why she was so upset whenever we spoke. She’d sacrificed a life with me to give me life. The first time I’d seen her in twenty years she told me that it was something she’d done for love.
And, like she’d predicted my life, I’d left my heart behind to ensure that our future could be secured.
It must be in the bloodline.
“So you’re going to listen to some bitch that hasn’t been a part of the organization in years instead of us? We’ve been faithful paid our dues—what the fuck?”
Aunt Yolonda walked close to him and grabbed him by his throat. I smiled thinking at how sweet everyone thought she was but she was just the quietest of all the killer moms.
“I’m so tired of you speaking.” She glanced at me and Faith waiting on us to disagree. “Do you mind?”
My mother grinned and gave her the floor. “By all means.”
Aunt Yolonda smiled at Uncle X and he strolled over with a pair of pliers. She gripped the side of James’ neck as he tried to break free but Uncle X hit him in his nose and blood started to spurt out. As he screamed out Uncle X took his tongue between the pliers pulling it out as far as possible.
Auntie Yolonda pulled out a small butane torch, why she had one was beyond me. I found it comical that she was ready for any and everything. She lit the torch and sloppily, probably on purpose, burned off Uncle James’ tongue.
“I love seeing my parents work together, man. This shit is beautiful.”
Yacouba was dabbing at his eyes wiping imaginary tears, and I could only shake my head at him.
“Thank you for that, Ori. I couldn’t hear him talk about my friend like that any longer. I promise I won’t interrupt again.”Auntie Yolonda stood on her tiptoes to give me a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
“You’re more than welcome, Auntie.”
“Thank you. I’ve been sick and tired of hearing his mouth for the last fifty years.”
Faith and Yolonda kissed each other's cheeks a greeting more appropriate for a meal than a murder.
James was screaming in his chair as though someone here was going to save him but none of us bothered. I was itching to put a bullet in his head just because. However, that wouldn’t be the fanfare my friends and family deserved for the havoc he’d been sowing in our lives for decades.
“Let me go! You letting these niggas do this shit to your family! You’re a fucking disgrace. You and this foreign bitch won’t ever measure up to what I could’ve done.” Theo looked damn near rabid as he was pulling at his bonds, trying to get his hands free.
“You are not my family. You’re my enemy. And there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to an enemy who dared try to harm someone I love.”
“You don’t love that bitch. I should’ve taken her when I had the chance. It would’ve been cleaner for them to just let me marry her but they gave her a choice. Shit, they didn’t even give your mama one. James senior had it right. Learn to get your bitches in line.” Theo was too busy posturing to even worry about the torment his daddy was going through. He’d been shot up and his tongue burned out but his son’s only focus was talking shit.
“Ori?”
My entire body responded to the sound of her voice. Every hair stood up, nerves fired and my dick grew harder. “Yes, Mistress?”
She chuckled at the way I so easily spoke her name but she was the one in charge right now. Of me, her willing warrior doing the bidding I would be so richly rewarded for executing.
“I would like him to die. But far more painfully than his father.”
“Do you want to do the honors?” I would pay the penance of allowing her to handle this but only if it was what she desired.
Asha’s head tilted in contemplation as a stray hair fell over her forehead. “No, I’m waiting to see how my husband is going to handle it.”
“Do you love me,Ka’iulani?” A question I had never asked but truly wanted an answer to.
She turned and smiled at me with a brilliance that rivaled a full moon on a cloudless night. “With all my heart.”
“Damn I almost wish you would’ve said no. Then I would’ve put a bullet in him and been done with all of this so I can change your mind.”
“We’ve a lifetime for that. But now that I think about it, can I have my knife back?” I quirked my brow looking at her, wondering what she had in mind. “Please?”
I handed her the knife and she all but skipped to where Theo was still talking his shit, ranting about her. When she got close I knew there were at least two guns trained on him in case he tried to hurt her. But with a flick of her wrist, Asha’s knife was out and running down the side of his face before he could finish insulting her again. She was smart enough to avoid any major blood vessels despite how deeply she cut.
