Falling for a Hood King 2

by Shvonne Latrice

  Chapter 13: Julius

  It was about 3am, when I finally got home. I was tired as hell, and starting to think I needed some sort of vacation. I was thinking maybe Natalia and I should go and get married somewhere, now that she was eighteen years old. I knew with her is where I wanted to be, so I might as well marry her pretty ass.

  I felt grimy, so I wanted to take a nice hot shower before climbing into bed with baby girl. I walked up the stairs towards our bedroom, and thought about the fact that we'd be in our new house in two more months. I wanted to be married by the time we got in it though. I laughed at my thoughts, because before I met Natalia, and even a little after I met her, I never saw myself getting married or falling in love.

  As I neared the room, I heard light sniffles. I walked to Jackson's room first, to make sure he was okay. I let out a sigh of relief to know that Natalia wasn't crying over something that happened to him. I peeked into Winnie's room and saw she was watching TV.

  "Did you need something Mr. Tate?" she smiled and stepped halfway out of the bed.

  "Nah, no, just making sure everyone is okay."

  I headed back to the bedroom to see what was wrong with Natalia. I walked in and saw she had the covers pulled over her head. Her body was jerking lightly, as she sobbed hard as fuck. I walked closer, and kneeled down next to her bed.

  "Baby what's wrong?" I asked as I peeled the covers back.

  Her pretty face was wet with tears, and her pouty full lips were red. I wiped a couple tears away with my thumb and kissed her.

  "What's wrong Natalia?" I asked again.

  "Do you really l-love me?" she sniffled.

  "Yeah baby girl, you know I do," I said climbing into the bed with her.

  "Yo-you haven't been with any other girls?"

  "Nah, not since I promised you," I replied squinting. "Why babe?"

  "Just making sure," she finally smiled.

  I figured now was the perfect time to see if she wanted to get married, since for some reason she was questioning my love for her.

  "What you think about getting married in two months?"

  "For real?"

  "Yeah, for real. So what you think?" I asked kissing the back of her hand.

  "Okay," she chuckled and I kissed her lips.

  I continued to kiss her soft lips, until I was in between her soft legs; my favorite place.

  ***

  I was hungry as fuck, so I decided to stop at Subway to get something to eat. As I stood in line, I felt like someone was staring at me. Just as I suspected, I looked to my left to see Franceska watching me like a hawk. What the fuck? She was like a leech that I couldn't get rid of. I proceeded to stand in line and order my sandwich, while not paying attention to her. On my way out, she decided to finally speak up.

  "Ju!" she called after me.

  Just like before, I kept walking all the way until I reached my Audi. I hit my alarm and put my sandwich inside, in case she wanted to get crazy. If she made me drop my sandwich I may have to lay her ass out in broad daylight.

  "Juli"

  "What Franceska?" I asked folding my arms.

  "So that's it. You tell me you gone try to be faithful and that's it?" she cried throwing her arms out.

  "Oh my fucking gosh man," I said rubbing my hand over my face. "In your perfect world Franceska, what would you want from me?"

  "For you to love me like I love you."

  "Okay. But you do realize that I have someone and that isn't gonna change ma. But even if there was no Natalia, you and I wouldn't work."

  "Why? ‘Cause I'm only good enough to fuck!" she yelled.

  "Bring your damn voice down, and in my eyes, yes. That's all I see you for. You need to find a nigga that's gone want to be with you outside the bedroom, ‘cause it ain't me," I shrugged.

  "You gone regret those words Julius," she glared at me.

  "Don't come at me with threats ma, you don't want that with me," I replied and hopped in my car.

  I sped out the parking lot, and left her standing there with her arms folded. I prayed that this would be the last time I ever heard from her ass. Hopefully, she would move back to Indiana and move on with her life.

  Chapter 14: Franceska Cruz

  I really didn't know what the fuck Julius thought this was. I mean, I got this nigga's name tatted between my breasts! We been fucking around for almost a year now, and he never gave a fuck about Natalia any of those times. When I met his ass he was fucking with Natalia, Bianca, and a whole other slew of bitches, so I don't understand why I'm not making the cut.

  I had two plans in mind though, and they would definitely work out for me one way or the other. I'd been watching Julius and Natalia for a week now, and I felt it'd be a good time to let his little wifey know what kind of dirty ass nigga she had on her hands.

  I smiled when I saw Natalia pull up in front of her condo. She got out the car, and an older lady grabbed her son out the back, as she popped the trunk. She started taking groceries in and out of her condo, and when I saw she was closing the trunk, I got out and ran over to her.

  "Natalia!" I called out, hoping to stop her from walking away.

  "Lisa," she said nonchalantly, and rolled her eyes. Bitch! I forgot I had given her a fake name when I applied to work for her.

  "I wanted to talk to you," I smiled.

  "About what?" she quizzed folding her arms.

  "About Julius. I have some stuff you may want to know. Can we go inside and talk?" I smiled.

  "No, tell me right here," she replied catching me off guard.

  "O-okay… well, Julius and I have been sleeping together, pretty much as long as you guys have been together." I raised a brow.

  "Oh, yeah. You're old news though," she replied calmly.

  "Is that what you think? Well did you know about"

  "The hotel threesome," she laughed.

  "No, last night we fucked until 3am," I had to lie.

  "That's funny, because I'm pretty sure he and I were fucking until about 5am." She smiled and turned around to leave.

  I stood there for a couple seconds, and then finally walked away. It was time for plan B; one that I knew for sure would pull them apart.

  I sped to Club Rissani, where I knew Julius would be around this time of the day. I spotted his car in the employee parking lot in the back, and got out of my car. I dug through my purse, and dropped a nice amount of drugs on the floor in his backseat. His window was cracked, so it was easy to slide these little baggies through. I had everything from weed, cocaine, to pills and meth. Once I was done, I sprinted back to my car, and made the call.

  "Charleston PD," a man answered.

  "Hi, yes. I would like to report a young man by the name of Julius Tate. He's been distributing drugs around town, and I wanted to let someone know," I smiled.

  "Do you have a good location for Mr. Tate?" the man answered.

  "Yes, his black Audi RS 7, is parked in the back of Rissani night club right now," I replied and gave them his plate number.

  "Thanks for the tip, we will be right over," the officer said and we disconnected.

  About fifteen minutes later, I saw two police cars pull up. One officer hopped out of each, and they headed towards the back parking lot. I watched as they shined a flashlight into Julius’ car to look around. One of the officers spotted what I planted, and shook his head. They turned around and headed over to the entrance of the club. It was around 2pm, so the doors were locked. They beat on the door and waited. Finally, some young man answered the door that I didn't recognize. They spoke a couple words to him, and then he went back inside. A couple minutes later, Julius came to the door. The officers tugged him out and threw handcuffs on him. I laughed to myself, and wanted to jump up and down as they escorted him to the police car.

  Once they were gone, I sped back to his condo to watch the drama unfold. Not but twenty minutes later, I saw little smart mouth ass Natalia running outside to get in her BMW truck, and sped off. I smiled and decided to trea
t myself to a nice lunch for a job well done.

  Chapter 15: Natalia

  It seemed as if my worst nightmare was coming true. Julius had gotten locked up for possession of illegal drugs. He called me to let me know that I needed to go pick up his brother and stop by his lawyer’s house. I immediately ran outside and headed to get Rashad.

  "Okay, so where do I go?" I asked Rashad frantically.

  "Relax ma, Ju gone be aight," he said rubbing my back and I nodded.

  He gave me directions on how to get to Julius' lawyer, Benjamin's house, as he talked on the phone with him. I was going as fast as I could, ‘cause for some reason I thought the faster I drove, the quicker Julius would be out.

  We pulled up to a nice two-story house, and Benjamin was already walking out. He waved his hands for us to come in quickly.

  "Benjamin Brown," he said sticking his hand out to me, once I walked in.

  "Natalia," I smiled and sat down next to Rashad.

  "Okay, so I made some calls after talking to you Rashad, and it looks like they found a lot of shit in Julius' back seat. I've never known Julius to be that reckless," he started the conversation.

  "He ain't, we already know someone set him up, but we don't know who," Rashad shook his head.

  "Right, now I know Julius didn't put those there, so we need to find out who did. I ordered to have the fingerprints on the bags of drugs scanned. That will tell us who at least touched the drugs last, which we know is not Julius. Once they clear his fingerprints, he will be released."

  "Yes, thank God!" I smiled.

  "Now the only thing is, they said this scan will take forty-five days. During that time, Julius will have to stay in jail." He shook his head.

  "What! Why?" I yelled and Rashad rubbed my back again.

  "They're unfortunately taking their time with this one sweetie. But that's the lowest I got them to go, they told me ninety days at first. Now it's forty-five or less, and I promise that I will stay on their asses!" Benjamin assured me.

  I couldn't do anything but break down and cry, for what seemed like hours.

  Benjamin told me I could visit Julius in one week, and that broke my heart. I missed him so much already. I cried the whole drive home, even when dropping Rashad off. Once I got home, I grabbed my chunky baby Jackson, and put him in the bed with me. I played with him for a little bit, and it helped stop the constant tears. I didn't know how long I could be without Julius. It was starting to feel like old times again.

  3 Days Later

  I was lying on the plush couch that was connected to an ottoman, with my feet stretched out. I was with Jackson and Winnie, watching a show called Devious Maids on Hulu. I'd never seen this show before, but it was really interesting.

  My phone was being blown up between Menzo, Lucy, Paula, and Rashad checking on me. I was replying to everyone except Lucy and Menzo, because they were on my shit list. My phone rang again, and it was unknown.

  "Hello?"

  "You have a collect call from Charleston County Detention Center, do you accept the charges?"

  "Yes!" I yelled and ran upstairs to the bedroom. "Julius?"

  "Hey baby," he replied.

  "Are you okay?" I asked.

  "I've had better days, but how are you and Jackson?" he replied.

  "We're fine, but we miss you."

  "I miss you too, and your soft ass skin. I can't wait to feel you again," he said.

  "Me either, daddy. I will be there to see you in four days," I smiled, as if he could see me.

  "You been counting down?" he asked.

  "Yes. Are they being mean to you in there?"

  "Nah, everybody is cool. I built relationships with the right people, so I'm living comfy right now. I just miss you and my son already. Fuck," he exhaled.

  "I love you Julius Christian Tate." I smiled.

  "I love you too Natalia Lillian Tate," he replied, making me blush. "Well goodnight baby girl. It was nice hearing your voice."

  "Yours too," I said as tears ran down my face.

  "Keep it tight for daddy."

  "Of course," I replied and then we hung up.

  I cried for a couple minutes more, and then returned to the living room to finish watching TV. I admit I did feel a little better after speaking to him.

  Chapter 16: Julius

  1 Week Later

  I couldn't wait to get out of this place. By the grace of God, I built relationships with the right people, so I had my own little cell. This nasty ass food and being confined in this musty ass box, was not doing it for me, however. I missed my freedom already, and being laid up with my beautiful woman.

  Today my brother was coming to see me, just to update me on a couple things. I couldn't wait to see him and discuss what was going on with the operation. I also got good news from Benjamin. He said that the forty-five days, was now only thirty, and that it may drop even more.

  "Tate! You got a visitor," the guard yelled, as he pulled back the cell gate.

  I was escorted out into the visiting room, and I spotted my brother immediately. I was thankful that my brother didn't look stressed. He always showed his emotions on his face, and if he looked worried that meant something was wrong.

  "What's up player?" I smiled and he stood up to dap me up. The guards glared at us, but we were sitting down by the time they thought to say anything.

  "So how are you?" Rashad asked.

  "I'm not in my usual element," I replied and he laughed. "So how is umm, business?" I asked.

  "The club is doing great as usual. Everything is working smoothly like always," he winked and I nodded.

  "That's good to hear man. I was worried for a second. I didn't want to lose everything I worked for," I smiled and nodded.

  "But uh Julius, I wanted to talk to you about Menzo man."

  "What about him?"

  "When I was putting Benjamin's number in Natalia's phone, Menzo started texting her. And from what I could see, he tryna fuck with Natalia," he said.

  My heartbeat sped up, and my mouth started to get dry at just thought of he and Natalia fucking around; especially while I was behind bars, and not able to do anything.

  "What did you see?" I asked, not sure if I wanted to know.

  "He was saying he wanted to see her, another one came in saying he had a dream about her, begging her to let him eat her pussy, and then how he could treat her better than you. All the shit he shouldn't be texting her," he shook his head.

  I swallowed the lump in my throat and my stomach started to hurt. This nigga had me beyond fucked up, and I was starting to think he was the one who set me up.

  "What does she say?"

  "Stop texting me, or leave me alone. Shit like that," he replied.

  "I think that nigga set me up," I glared at the wall.

  "Well, once the fingerprints come back, we will know who it was."

  "And I can't wait," I replied shaking my head.

  I chopped it up with my brother for a little longer, and then went back to my cell. I couldn't stop thinking about what he told me about Menzo. I was happy to hear that Natalia was denying his advances, but how long could that last? When she visited tomorrow, I would talk to her about it.

  The Next Day

  "Tate!" the guard yelled to let me know I had a visitor.

  I walked out as fast as I could, ‘cause I couldn't wait to see my baby girl. I walked into the visiting area and saw her sitting down. She looked just as sexy as ever. She had on a black tube dress, black stilettos, and her long brown hair was hanging down.

  "Hey ma," I said creeping up on her.

  "Julius," she hopped up, grabbed my face, and kissed me about four times.

  "Hey!" the guard yelled.

  We pulled away from each other and sat down at the table. She stared at me for a little bit, as tears raced down her smooth caramel cheeks. I would've wiped them, but I didn't feel my hands were clean enough.

  "So how is everything?" I asked.

  "It's been better," she repli
ed.

  "Why? What's wrong?" I asked. Tell me about this fuck nigga Menzo, I thought.

  "The only thing wrong is that you're not at home," she half smiled.

  "So nothing else is happening?" I asked.

  "No, everything is pretty much the same. I was thinking of going to school," she smiled.

  I couldn't respond right away, because I didn't understand why she wouldn't mention anything about another nigga begging to eat her pussy. Really Natalia? Maybe she wanted this nigga.

  "Oh yeah, like Paula?" I finally responded and she nodded. "So you’ve been telling me everything that's going on when I call?"

  "Yeah, life is pretty boring without you. Jackson, Winnie, and I just relax all day, or clean and cook," she chuckled.

  "Alright, well I'm gonna go back to my cell." I said standing up.

  "Why Julius? We still have time left," she said looking up at me.

  "Don't come visit me no more, until you can be honest with me," I spat.

  "Be honest with you? What are you talking about Julius? I am being honest!" she started to cry.

  "And why you dressed like that? The fuck you going later?" I growled.

  "I wore this for you Julius," she replied in a low tone.

  "I'm ready to go back," I said to the guard and he nodded.

  "Julius!" Natalia yelled out to me. "Julius!" she yelled again, using all the strength in her petite frame.

  That should teach her lying ass a lesson. Why the fuck wouldn't she want me to know that a nigga I'm supposed to be cool with, is texting her sexual shit? What if Rashad hadn't found out, I would be in the dark. That's probably what she wanted, so she could have some side dick while I'm locked up. But she got shit twisted if she thinks she gone be hopping off Menzo's dick, and then coming to see me.

  Chapter 17: Natalia

  3 Days Later

  I was still in shock because of the way Julius treated me. I thought everything was going good, but I guess I was wrong. I kept replaying our conversation over in my head, trying to figure out what went wrong. Maybe he didn't want me going to school.