Rozalyn 2: Vengeance of the Heart (Rozalyn Series)

by Shan

  "For what?" he asked looking me up and down.

  "Starr and I about to go work out. Tae said he'll be right back so watch him for me," I placed Tamarion in his arms then kissed him on his forehead.

  Taron looked at me like my face was covered in shit. I gave him a sleek smile then walked out of the kitchen.

  "I ain't no damn babysitter!" Taron yelled as I made my way to the front door.

  "Don't be like that. Tae said he'll be right back."

  "Well I'm about to bounce so he better or else this fat ass baby gonna be watching his self."

  "Whatever!" I said walking out the door just in time to see Starr speeding up to the curb. I jogged to the car and jumped in the passenger side.

  "Look we can't be gone long Keylan said he got something to do in an hour," Starr passed me the blunt then pulled away from the house.

  "This ain't the only car he has," I took a toke off the blunt then looked down at my watch.

  "He said he don't drive them other cars like that."

  "Well he might have to today ‘cause I don't know how long we gonna be gone. It depends on how long this discussion takes place."

  "Damn, ya'll ain't been married but two damn weeks I doubt he cheating on you already."

  "Well he better hope not Starr! I'm not about to have this shit. All these hoes calling and texting him to meet up and he agreeing to the shit like we didn't just get married two weeks ago," I took another hit off the blunt then passed it to Starr.

  "Maybe he about to tell ol girl that he married now."

  "He should've told her that 2 weeks ago. Her baby ain't here yet so she has no reason to be calling him. Ughhh, I knew I was gonna regret this shit," I whined.

  "Damn, bitch just yesterday you were saying you're happier than you've ever been. Were you lying?" Starr asked.

  "No, and even this morning I felt happier than ever. Shit Tae been treating me good but at the same time I'm not dealing with no other women and he needs to know that. He wouldn't want me out there messing around on him."

  "True. True."

  "Enough about me and Tae, so what's good with you and Key? I see you ain't went home yet and it don't look like you planning on it."

  Starr had a huge smile on her face just at the mention of Key's name. I had never seen her that damn happy about any dude but Key had her ass wide open.

  "I know it's only been a few weeks but I can see myself falling in love with him Roz. Oh my God the sex is mind blowing!"

  I laughed, "Does Toya know?"

  "Nope, Brian doesn’t even know. I almost got busted in Jamaica when I was sneaking out of Key’s room but I played that shit off real good. Brian would be pissed if he knew. Keylan says he wants to keep it secret for now and I know it’s because of Latoya. Soon as he tells her then I will tell Brian."

  "Do you feel bad about talking to her ex?"

  "I did at first but Toya and I only talked whenever she came over Brian's and I was there or when she was chilling with me and you. Me and her ain't cool like that and besides she the one cheated on her man and got pregnant. I'm happy and I'm not gonna let her mess that up for me."

  "And you shouldn't. If she gets mad then oh well. I don't know why he wants to keep it secret though."

  Starr shrugged her shoulders then passed me the end of the blunt.

  "Did you watch the news?" I asked looking over at Starr.

  "Girl I don't have time to watch TV messing with Key," Starr laughed.

  "Nasty bitch, I didn't need to know all that. Seriously though, they found Brittany....dead."

  "Oh My God! Are you fuckin’ serious? What happened?" Starr asked.

  "I don't know, Tae cut the TV off before I could finish hearing what they said. I just can't believe this. I wonder if Brandon is okay," I sighed.

  "Don’t worry about it! Brandon is a grown ass man and can handle his own! You lucked up and got away with the shit the first couple of times but don't be surprised if Tae snaps your neck the next time!"

  "It's not like that, B just always been there for me when I was going through it. And like now he ain’t got nobody; Tae ain't speaking to him and neither is Key. I just wanna check to make sure he's okay. He and Brittany were together for a long time."

  "So what! It's not your place to check on him Roz. Look, listen to me when I say stay away from him. B, ain't nothing but trouble. Cool as I thought he was, I saw in Jamaica how big of a hoe he really is. He's jealous of Tamar and he wants you. Stay away from him."

  "I hear ya," I said rolling my eyes.

  We pulled into the driveway of the condo parking behind a black Chrysler 300. I hit the last of the blunt then jumped out of the car, taking a deep breath hoping that I was going to find Tamar and this Diamond chick talking like two adults but my gut told me I was about to see something that would break my heart.

  I used my key to go inside the condo with Starr right on my tail. The front of the house was dark as the rest of the house. I was about to go to the master bedroom but stopped when I heard light moans coming from the guest bedroom. I looked at Starr placing my finger to my lips and motioned for her to follow me. The door was wide open, the room was dark but I could make out shadows. A female was bouncing up and down wildly on what I knew to be Tamar. She had her hands cupped around her breast, moaning and humming. I flipped the light switch on then leaned against the doorway crossing my arms over my chest. Both of them jumped at the brightness that now revealed their secrets.

  The devilish smile the bitch wore when she turned to look at me made me sick to my fuckin’ stomach. I placed one hand over my stomach and the other I covered my mouth with, ran out of the room to the bathroom, and jerked the toilet seat open.

  "No good ass nigga!" I could hear Starr yelling. "How you gonna do her like that?"

  "Fuck are ya'll doing here?" I heard Tamar ask. "Diamond you need to leave!"

  "Don't try to make the bitch leave now; you done been busted already!" Starr yelled.

  "Starr this ain't got shit to do with you!" Tamar screamed. "Yo, Diamond get your shit and leave!"

  "Wait...wait it looks like my sister may want me to stay," Diamond said mischievously when I made it back to the bedroom.

  "Your sister?" Both Tamar and Starr asked simultaneously.

  I stood in the doorway wiping my mouth with a napkin, doing everything in my power not to cry over this bullshit. My sister Danesha stood naked as a brand new spanking baby smiling like she'd just hit the lottery.

  "What? You guys don't see the family resemblance?" Diamond devishly laughed.

  "Yo, what the fuck is going on?" Tamar zipped up his jeans and looked from me to Diamond.

  "So, this who you have a baby on the way with? My fuckin’ sister?"

  Tamar ran his hands across his face and shook his head.

  "Yo, this bitch need her ass straight whooped!" Starr yelled. "Hell both of ya'll."

  "Yea bitch and who gonna whoop me? I know not your little ass," Danesha taunted.

  "Oh this bitch don't know me!" Starr pulled at her earrings and began taking off her jacket.

  "No Starr fuck her, fuck the both of them! Let's go!" I stormed out of the room pulling Starr along with me.

  "Wait a minute......Rozalyn hold the fuck up!" Tamar yelled after me.

  "Starr hurry up!" I screeched yanking on the handle to the door.

  "This hoe got me fired the hell up! Damn Rozalyn let me go rag on that hoe's head for real!" Starr fumbled with the keys dropping them to the ground; by that time Tamar had made it outside to me.

  "Tamar get the fuck outta my face!" I screamed putting my hand up to push him away.

  "Rozalyn you overreacting right now!" He said.

  "How the hell am I overreacting? You told me you were coming here to check on the place and I find you

  screwing a bitch, and not just any bitch, my bitch ass sister!"

  "I ain't know! I ain't never met your sister before; you act like I was supposed to know!"

  "My damn pictures i
s all around that house. I'm sure she told you!"

  "I swear to God that bitch ain't never said shit to me about being your sister! She played me! You know what as a matter a fact, I betcha the hoe knew you wasn't dead that whole time!" Tamar pulled a pistol from his back and stalked into the house. I shrugged my shoulders and jumped in the car with Starr who was still fuming mad. I gave her the okay to drive off and the moment we pulled off we heard three gunshots from behind us.

  POW! POW! POW!

  Starr gave me a knowing glance then turned the stereo up.

  Why would Danesha talk to Tamar and not tell him I was her sister? I don't get it. He had to have known, right? What the hell is going on?

  26 DANESHA

  AKA Diamond Princess

  Tae's ass was dead, do you hear me; that muthafucka’ is dead. Muthafucka pulled a pistol and shot off at me! Bitch ass nigga knows the rules! He knows he should’ve bodied my ass because a bitch wasn’t going to stop until I murked his bitch ass. Fuck some warning shots and some next time I see you you’re dead type shit. He better hope he sees me before I see his ass.

  I was pushing my jet black Chrysler 300 down the highway as fast as I possibly could trying my hardest not to piss on myself again. My body was still shaking, my ears still ringing; heart still racing from the three shots Tamar let off around me.

  "Hello!" I yelled into the receiver of my phone.

  "I see you called," the caller said.

  "Only like six damn times. We have a problem okay. My sister is back with Tae and it seems that they may have gotten married."

  "Married? How the hell did she get back in Miami. Where the fuck is your dude at?"

  "I don't know okay, I haven't talked to him in months. I knew something had to be wrong but I figured he would've called me if it was."

  "Where the hell have you been? I thought you and Tae were together, how the hell could he get married?"

  "I went to New York for a month and a half; my fuckin’ mama was killed! They killed my damn mama!" I screamed into the phone, quickly wiping tears away as they fell.

  "Look where are you? Come here so we can talk. I don't feel comfortable talking about this over the phone." he said.

  "I'm on my way," I sniffled, sucking back tears as I thought of my mama. All this was for her, the whole plan, crossing my sister, and everything was all for her. I just wanted to see her happy again and if it meant my sister's downfall then so be it. She didn't take us into consideration when she took her snitching ass to the cops and ratted out P.J.'s ass.

  We had every damn thing, a bad ass crib, cars, closets full of clothes, jewelry amongst other shit. When P.J. went to jail we lost it all, and it was all Rozalyn's fault.

  She was supposed to suffer when she moved to Atlanta with her dad; suffer emotionally and physically. Instead she gets down there and hooks up with some boss ass nigga and all of a sudden life is peaches and cream for her. Fuck that. Not once did she check on me and mama to see if we needed anything. Didn't send us money, help with a couple of bills; nothing. Yea I set up the whole thing with a little help from my friend we were able to successfully pull off the kidnapping and botched murder of Rozalyn.

  In the beginning that was all it was supposed to be, just a kidnapping, and made up murder. P.J. was getting his revenge by making Rozalyn suffer every damn day and the satisfaction of knowing she was going through hell was good enough for me.

  It wasn't until I found out about the 27 million dollar trust fund that Tamar was expecting real soon that I came up with the idea of getting to know Tamar, getting pregnant, and taking all that nigga money.

  Soon as I gave birth to our daughter Tamar would be killed and then is when Rozalyn would've been released. She would've came home to nothing and me and my mama would've had everything once again.

  Unfortunately things have gone sour and the whole damn plan has been ruined. I don't know how Keylan knew to go after my mama. I don't know where things went wrong. All I know is that I had to come up with something quick to get Rozalyn out of the picture again and claim what is rightfully mine and my daughter's.

  BAM! BAM! BAM!

  "Who is it?" the voice on the other side of the door asked.

  "It's Diamond," I said removing my sunglasses and pulling them atop my head.

  "What's up? Did anybody follow you?" he asked after stepping to the side to let me in.

  "No, nobody followed me. Tae was too busy trying to catch up to Rozalyn after he shot at me." I said.

  "Are you sure?" he asked.

  "I'm positive. No one was following me Tavon, now where is Pappi at?" I smiled.

  "He'll be out in a minute. I guess he wanted to get dressed up ‘cause he knew you were coming," Tavon said scratching his head and eyeing my round belly. "Damn, so pops was saying my lil’ bro done got married and shit. How the hell did that happen and how the fuck did they know where Rozalyn was?"

  "I don't know. All I know is that Keylan paid a visit to my mom and she ended up dead. Ya'll we're supposed to send your guys after him and Tae when I told you that they were getting close to finding something out!"

  "We did go after them dumb ass girl. Keylan is not an easy mark and Tamar has gotten smarter. We fired bullet after bullet into his car and not one pierced the body. We did what we could to stop him but I guess it wasn't good enough."

  "Damn right it wasn't good enough. I can't believe this shit. Everything was going so good! I figured because P.J. hadn’t called me that things were cool."

  POW! POW! POW! TAT! TA! TAT! TAT!

  "Shit!" I yelled diving to the floor being careful not to harm my baby.

  "I knew it! Somebody followed you!" Tavon yelled. "Stay down!"

  POW! POW! POW! TAT! TA! TAT! TAT!

  Glass shattered all over the house, bullets were flying everywhere and I was just too certain that one of us would be hit with a couple of bullets if not all of us. After about five minutes the bullets finally stopped pouring in, Tavon and I got up from the floor, checked ourselves over making sure neither of us had been hit. Tahj came running from the back with a towel wrapped around his waist with sweat pouring from every angle of his body.

  “Damn, are ya’ll okay?” Tahj asked checking me over.

  I shook my head yes doing my best to calm my daughter down as she rumbled around in the tight space of my womb. Tavon rushed outside and Tahj and I followed right behind him. My Chrysler 300 was shot the hell up, tires spent, windows to pieces, and the same with the White Tahoe that Tahj and Tavon drove.

  "They trying to make sure we don't go nowhere." Tavon said. "They'll be back and that's for damn sure!"

  "You were followed?" Tahj asked yanking me closer to him.

  "You're hurting my arm!" I screamed.

  "I can't believe you came over here knowing somebody was following you!"

  "I didn't know I was being followed okay! Damn it! Ya’ll was supposed to take care of this shit! I leave to take care of my mother’s funeral and come back and shit is all out of whack! Damn it!”

  “You should’ve told somebody you was leaving. When I didn’t hear from you after we shot up Tae’s ride I figured everything was going according to plan. Only person to blame here is you!”

  27 KEYLAN

  Mistake #1

  "Man you gone learn to fuckin’ listen! Now they're gonna fuckin’ know we're on to them!" I yelled at Money who was reloading the AK ignoring every damn thing I was saying.

  "Tae said to kill the bitch and everybody affiliated with her, now it's possible that the hoe is still alive ’cause you thought you recognized some damn body!" Money yelled.

  "His fuckin’ brother! That's who the fuck I recognized."

  "Well it’s obvious to a fuckin’ blind man that he was affiliated with the bitch so that muthafucka’ should've been bodied too! Turn the fuck around so I can make sure they dead."

  "No, we going to find Tae to see what he wants to do!"

  "You don't listen very well do you? He said to kill that bitch
Diamond and everybody affiliated with her. What the fuck do you mean we need to talk to him and see what he wants to do? He made the shit clear when we talked to him!"

  "Look just put that shit away and chill out. We heading back!" I pulled a blunt out the ashtray, fired it up, and flipped the switch on the radio. This was the first time in my life that I'd pulled out on a job. Leaving Tavon alive was a mistake and I knew it. If Tamar found out I had the dime on Tavon and I let him make it he was sure to never speak to me again. All he ever talked about was whenever he caught up to Tavon he would dead him on the spot not giving a fuck who was around. Seeing him just brought up child hood memories, the bond we all shared growing up and how I looked up to them niggas. It made me think of how ma would feel knowing she lost another son and I didn't want to cause her that pain. Even then I fucked up by letting that nigga make it and whether I wanted to be the one to pull the trigger it had to be pulled sooner rather than later. I know this.

  "Hey yo, can you do me a favor and not mention this shit to Tae?" I said after turning the music down and passing the blunt to Money.

  "Yea, you know you fucked up! Man I can't believe this shit right now, let's just double back and go handle them," Money sighed before taking a toke off the blunt.

  "They won't be there. I gotta figure out a way to catch back up to them. Damn!” I yelled slamming my hand against the steering wheel.

  "Yea you fucked up and you know it," Money said again. He turned the switch back up on the radio and began to bob his head. I sat in silence the remainder of the ride back trying to figure out what the hell I was gonna do to fix the shit before it got outta of hand. I dropped Money off at his car then headed home before going to talk to Tamar.

  ****

  "Sorry, I ain't mean to have you waiting like this," I said the moment I jumped out the car. I rushed and opened the front door to my house allowing Toya to step in first.

  “It's cool I wasn’t waiting very long. Wow, this is nice Keylan,” Latoya said walking through the house.