I was breathing like a raging bull and only seeing red.
“You have to leave,” another officer said.
“Just let me talk to him. I’m a doctor here. Let me calm him down because he is not leaving,” Mrs. Draya told him.
“Get the fuck out of here. Go back to the house and wait for me,” I told Sosa and Benji. They hurriedly moved toward the exit as I looked down at Mrs. Draya. “I need to see her.”
“You have to calm down first, Truce. They aren’t going to let you back there if you’re acting this way. I know you’re angry, but please… don’t fly off the handle here and get yourself locked up.”
I stepped away and headed outside to get some air. My phone buzzed in my pocket, and I pulled it out to see a message from Dame. I opened it to see what this bitch had to say.
Dame:
Me:
Pussy ass nigga. Ya ass is done for when I catch you.
Dame:
I’ll be waiting. I hope she was worth all of this.
He sent me his location, and I saw him heading back to Muskegon. I was going to hurt this nigga worse than I did his daddy back then. He was going to be eating through a fucking tube once I got done with him. He’d better start praying that I would be able to stop myself so I didn’t send him to meet his daddy in hell.
I counted down from one hundred in my head before Jas came out of the revolving doors. “She wants to see you.”
I hurried back inside and followed Jas down the hall to where Jela was. When I made it inside the room, I bit my bottom lip so hard that I drew blood. The whole left side of her face was purple, black, and swollen. She had a bandage on her forehead, her top lip was swollen, and I could see a red ring around her neck. I moved to the side of her bed when she reached for me and took her hand.
“I’m sorry,” she said, voice raspy.
“You have nothing to be sorry for, bae. I should have taken care of this shit a long time ago.”
“I’m okay, Truce. It’s just a little damage, but I’m still alive.”
“Only because of your sister and your friends. Sosa and Benji were supposed to be with you at all times. They should have been standing by the fucking bathroom door protecting you.”
“It’s not their fault, Truce. I told them not to.”
“And they shouldn’t have listened, J. My whole reason for hiring them was to keep you safe.”
“It’s okay, baby.I’mokay.”
“And I’m going to make sure you stay that way.”
“Come back to me, please,” she said. I kissed her forehead, then headed back out the door, passing by Jas on the way out.
“I hope y’all fucked them up.”
“Them hoes are busted and disgusted. I wasn’t letting them get away without doing damage.”
“Where are they?”
“As far as I know, they have been arrested. Jela’s going to press charges once she’s out of here.”
I nodded. “If I don’t come back, make sure you let her know I love her, and if fate brings me back to her, I’m putting a ring on her finger.”
She gave me a subtle smile and hugged me. “Take care of yourself, Truce.”
Without another word, I walked down the hall, bypassing her family in the waiting room, and out the door.
