The Plug's Daughter 2: It's Love and War

by Nika Michelle

  “You knew I didn’t want to have children, but you insisted on trying to make me someone that I’m not. I’m not capable of loving anyone other than myself…and you. You’re the only man I’ve ever loved and…”

  “What about Craig?” My eyes were on her face waiting for a reaction.

  She played it off very well by pretending that name didn’t affect her. However, I noticed a slight flinch.

  “Why are you bringing him up?”

  “Do you know that he tried to kill Sen and he’s dead?”

  Her eyes were huge and her mouth fell open. “How do you know that?”

  “Her boyfriend Keys killed him when he tried to kill her. Didn’t she tell you that there was an attempt on her life in McDonough? How did that mufucka know that my baby was there? Huh? Don’t play dumb wit’ me.”

  “Keys? Who the fuck is that?”

  “The man who killed yo’ boyfriend. The man who loves your daughter more than you ever have.”

  With a wave of her hand, she dismissed me and what I was saying. “Sen didn’t tell me all of the details. All she said was somebody had shot at her and ran her off the road, but she managed to get away. Craig was never you.” Her eyes misted over. “As much as I wanted him to, he could never compare.”

  She shook her head. “I knew all about you and Angie. I even knew that it was possible that the little bastard she had was yours. When I met Craig I thought he’d make me forget about you, but he didn’t. Nothing did.”

  “Save the bullshit. I just wanna know if you know anything about him tryna kill my child.”

  Melissa shook her head as she looked at me like I’d lost my mind. “Are you accusing me…?”

  “I’m fuckin’ askin’ you if you know about that nigga tryna kill my fuckin’ child! Tell me the truth before I blow yo’ pretty little face off yo’ neck!”

  Tears filled her eyes and then spilled down her cheeks. She was good for the theatrics, because I knew that she really had no feeling. As much as she claimed she loved me, I didn’t believe it or shit she said. In my mind it was all about possession. She just didn’t want to share me with anybody else, not even her own daughter.

  “I had no idea it was Craig. I hadn’t seen or talked to him for years. After you tried to kill him we lost contact. Maybe that’s why he tried to kill Sen. You don’t really think I’d put a hit out on my own child do you? I’m not that damn cold. I thought it was about Will just like Sen did.”

  “Well, in that case why are you here?”

  Her facial expression changed. It seemed as if she was trying to come up with a good lie. I didn’t believe shit that bitch said.

  “I had to handle some business,” she simply stated.

  “Oh okay. So, you risked your life to handle some business. Looks like you were just shopping to me. I don’t think a woman who is afraid for her life will go shopping.”

  “Well, as you know I love to shop because it makes me feel better and I was armed.”

  “True, but it still don’t sit well with me.”

  “Why you still got that gun on me Mendosa?” The tight crimson colored dress that she wore was short and low cut. She opened her legs to expose her waxed clean pussy.

  “You still don’t wear panties huh?” I licked my lips as I shook my head.

  Her pussy was good as hell. Almost too damn good. That was why I fell for her. I had put lust over love, but never again. That bitch’s pussy was obsolete to me. I didn’t want it and I wasn’t tempted.

  “Nah, now I have a reason not to. You know you want this.” She narrowed her eyes giving me a sexy, inviting look.

  “Ummm, nah, all I want is the truth. I got a feelin’ you lyin’ to me. Maybe I should just go ahead and shoot you because I’on trust yo’ ass.”

  “I still love you.” She licked her lips and I almost lowered the gun.

  It was like she was trying to distract me. I saw a shadow come around the corner and my attention went to it.

  Big mistake.

  The sound of gunshots followed.

  Pow! Pow! Pow!

  * * *

  Jasenia

  “You bitch!” I screamed as I ran and tried to wrestle the gun out of my mother’s hand.

  I was armed of course, but I lost it when I saw my father take at least two of those gun shots. Having no idea if the shots were fatal made it my business to get that gun from her as quick as possible.

  “Yeah nigga, I thought you knew me!” She yelled looking like a mad woman. “I keep a strap under the sofa cushion!”

  She held on to that gun for dear life, but as she taunted my father I decided to kick that bitch in her bare pussy.

  “Fuck!” She screeched and her natural instinct was to let the gun go.

  I held it on her, but I had to get my father to the hospital. Killing her was what I really wanted to do, but I needed to know what was going on. What was she hiding and why was she in Miami instead of Puerto Rico? Shit, I didn’t have time to waste. I had to check on my father.

  “Don’t move bitch!” I held the gun on her as I walked backwards toward him.

  “You okay daddy?” I asked as my eyes roamed his body.

  Blood oozed from a gunshot wound in his abdomen and his thigh. Both wounds could be fatal and I knew that if he didn’t get to a hospital he’d die. Damn!

  “What you doin’ here Sen?” He asked weakly as his bloody hand traveled up to my face.

  “Don’t worry ‘bout that right now. I gotta get you some help.”

  “Kill that bitch first…” His pupils rolled around in his head and I panicked.

  Shit, my father was heavy and I couldn’t pick him up. If I called 911 for an ambulance would that bitch say he tried to kill her? Fuck!

  I turned my attention to my mom as tears burned my eyes. “You’ve really done it now bitch.” As I shook my head I heard a knock at the front door. “What the? Who is that? Did you call somebody?”

  “No, I don’t know who the fuck it is. Why don’t you check…bitch?” My mother had the nerve to smirk at me.

  “Fuck you!” As I walked to the door I didn’t take my eyes off her. Damnit, I couldn’t look through the peep hole because I’d have to look away from that sneaky hoe.

  “I’ll let you know if she moves,” my father said in a strained voice.

  I looked and Keys was standing there. My saving grace, but how did he get there so fast? Without a moment of hesitation I opened the door and pulled him inside.

  “Get my father to a hospital, now…”

  Keys didn’t say anything at first as he scanned the room. “What the hell?”

  “She shot him. Get him outta here while I handle her.”

  “Sen…”

  “Just take him to the nearest fuckin’ hospital Keys. We’ll talk later.”

  My gun was still pointed at my mother’s devious ass face. Finally, I’d have the chance to have a moment alone with her. I couldn’t take too long though, because I had to get to the hospital with my dad. Before I let my evil side out, I said a quick prayer for him.

  “Forgive me Lord,” I said out loud knowing that killing my own mother would be the ultimate sin.

  She had killed my soul, but for the sake of what I had left, I needed forgiveness. Something told me that I’d be forgiven being that she had breached the contract of motherhood by being the worst mother possible.

  My eyes didn’t leave the woman who had birthed me while Keys lifted my father up and took him outside. My guess was he’d rented a car at the airport like I did. Of course mine was rented in a fake name, which was the name I flew under. Being that I knew what I planned to do, I had to cover myself. There was a flight exactly an hour after mine, which I figured Keys had taken. My flight had an unexpected thirty minute transfer, so that was probably why we’d made it there around the same time. Then I wondered how the hell he knew where I was.

  “What the fuck’s goin’ on! I’ve been runnin’ for my life and you’re chilling in the same house you supp
osedly left! Tell me something before I kill you now bitch!” I walked up to her and put the gun to her head. “I feel nothing for you.”

  “The feeling’s mutual.” She glared up at me with so much hatred in her eyes that if looks could kill I’d be dead and gone. “I mean, to be honest, you took the only man I loved away from me. My own family didn’t give a fuck about me and then Mendosa came along. He showered me with love and gave me everything I wanted. Then you came along and that shit changed. His eyes never lit up for me like they did for you. It was like he forgot all about me and you became his life. It felt like he’d finally got what he wanted and that wasn’t me anymore. It was you. I resented you for that.”

  “You’re fuckin’ psycho. What woman wouldn’t be happy to have a good father for their child you selfish bitch! You ruined me. Do you feel anything about that?” The tears fell as I thought of possibly losing both of my parents in the same day.

  Tears of pain if I lost my father and tears of joy for when I killed her.

  “I’m sorry Sen.” Suddenly she had tears spilling down her cheeks too. “I wish I was capable of being the mother you deserved, but…I wasn’t. I admit that I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I know I can’t make up for them…”

  I cut her off by slamming that gun against her head with all of my strength. Blood gushed from the wound. “Don’t lie to me! You’re full of shit! Your sorry ass apology don’t mean a damn thing to me! Tell me the truth! Why the fuck are you here if someone is trying to kill us!”

  She wiped her eyes as a sly smile spread across her Botox filled lips. “Well, you certainly know me better than your father.”

  “Talk or I’ll go ahead and get this shit over with so I can go see about my father.” My eyes let her know that she was a millisecond away from getting her head blown the fuck off.

  Knowing the narcissist that my mother was, she figured she could talk her way out of getting killed. Shit, all I wanted was the truth. She was going to die either way. Once she was gone I would have peace and I’d be able to move on with my life. It was clear that in order for me to be the person I wanted to be, she had to be eliminated.

  “You want the truth for real baby girl?” She mocked my father. “I mean, the truth hurts.”

  “You can’t hurt me anymore than you already have.” My cold stare wasn’t faltering.

  “Okay, I’ll be honest with you.” She sighed. “I mean, if I’m gonna die I might as well bare my soul right?”

  When I didn’t say anything she continued.

  “I cheated on your father with a guy named Craig back in the day. You never knew him. When your father found out that I’d run off to St. Louis to be with him, he flipped out. He came to St. Louis and shot Craig, but he survived. That’s who tried to kill you.”

  “What?” I was shocked. “It wasn’t Will’s…”

  “No…” She rolled her eyes. “Shit…I…fuck. His name wasn’t Will.”

  I was really confused. As much as I wanted to kill her, I wanted to hear more.

  “What?”

  She continued. “His name wasn’t Will it was Robert and he was a hit man not a human trafficker. I made all of that shit up. I hired him to kill you. Of course that didn’t go as planned. So, I had to cover my tracks. I got a couple of my girls killed and sent the note here to throw you off. I’d reunited with Craig and he volunteered to kill you after I told him that you had killed Robert. I didn’t know that Craig was dead, since you didn’t tell me that part. This whole time I was wondering what happened to him. I kept calling and I guess that’s why I…anyway, Craig was just a pawn. I never loved him or even cared about him. The plan was to kill him after he did the job anyway.”

  The job? I just stared at the woman who had given me life and plotted to take it away…twice.

  “I wanted the half a million dollar life insurance policy that I took out on you and your father would be the conciliation prize. He loves you more than anything and I was going to seduce him while he grieved over his little princess.” There was a far-away look in her eyes as she confessed conspiring to have her own daughter killed for money and the love of my father.

  “You sick bitch!” I spat and pressed the gun’s trigger.

  Click! Click!

  She busted out into hysterical laughter. “No bullets bitch.”

  I dropped the empty gun and smiled at her. “You don’t know me. If you did you’d know that I didn’t come up in here unprepared.” With one swift motion my strap was out of my pocket and in my hand.

  That wiped the smile from that bitch’s face. “That’s right. I came to kill you…bitch! I finish what the fuck I started, which is more than I can say about you. Will…well Robert, or Craig should’ve killed me. I guess you can’t do shit right. You sucked at being a wife, you sucked at being a mother and you couldn’t kill me. Thank you for the truth…Missy, but it wasn’t enough.”

  Pow! Pow! Pow!

  Three shots to the dome completely demolished the face that I never wanted to see again. As I stood there I cried for the love I’d never get to feel. I sobbed and my body trembled as I fell down to my knees mourning the mother I’d never get to have.

  I wiped my tears away and turned my back on the woman who had never given her heart to me. Shit, I was a motherless child anyway, so she deserved to die.

  * * *

  Keys arms were around me as we stood in the waiting room of the hospital. The hot tears continued to fall. I’d called him as soon as I got in my car. He told me which hospital he’d taken my father to and I knew exactly where it was. It was the one I’d gone to when I had overdosed on Xanax before my time in rehab.

  “Are you mad at me?” I asked him.

  “No, not this time. You did what you had to do ma,” he said softly.

  “I know, but, what if…he dies?” I couldn’t hold it together. It felt like I was breaking into pieces and I needed Keys to keep me from falling apart.

  “He’s not gonna die. He’s stable now and he’s a fighter.”

  “What did you tell them?” I had seen him, but he was heavily sedated and hooked up to all types of tubes.

  “I said somebody had tried to steal our car and shot him. Gave a false police report, but I figure they won’t investigate it anyway. You look tired.” He observed my face. “We should go get a room or something.”

  I nodded. “K, but I wanna go see Nadia first.”

  He gave me a strange look. “Ya’ll talkin’ again?”

  “No, but I figure since I’m here.”

  He nodded. “Right. Well, let’s go. We can come back early in the morning.”

  “Uh, babe, how did you know where I was?” I asked.

  “I went to your condo and found a piece of your mail that had a Miami address on it. Honestly I thought it was your place, not your mother’s. I didn’t expect that.”

  I just hoped they didn’t find my mother and link her to what had happened to my father. Keys had told me that my father gave him the number for a dude he knew named Big C who would clean up the crime scene and get rid of my mother’s body. He had already made the call before I got to the hospital. I guess he had faith in me.

  * * *

  When I pulled up in Nadia’s driveway I looked behind me to see that Keys was right there. It had been a long ass day and all I wanted to do was reconcile with my best friend and then go get some sleep. Thank God it was all over and we could go on with our lives. No more threats to my existence. Will’s organization didn’t exist and there was nobody else coming after me. All of my adversaries were dead. Now, if my father survived everything would be perfect.

  Keys rolled his window down. “I’m gon’ wait right here for you babe.”

  “I want you to meet my best friend,” I shot back.

  He reluctantly turned the car off and followed me up the walk way to the front door. I rang the doorbell and waited, but there was no answer. I’d tried to call too. Maybe she was sleep. She had to be there because her gold BMW was in the driveway. I ra
ng the doorbell again and then knocked. Still, there was no answer and it was quiet as hell.

  “C’mon babe. She’s prego right? Maybe she’s sleepin’. You can call her from the room.”

  Something just seemed off. Nadia might’ve been sleep and all, but I hadn’t come that far not to see her. She may have been mad, but I’d texted her earlier to tell her that I was in Miami. She had so much mouth that she would at least tell me where to go. Why hadn’t she responded?

  “I got a key,” I said before heading back to the car to grab my keys from my purse.

  Nadia had a poodle named Cori and when she had gone to Vegas with Jayson I had a key made to feed her and make sure she had water. It was crazy because I didn’t even hear her yapping at the door. That shit just seemed strange.

  Keys pulled his gun out as I pushed the door open. The first thing I saw when I walked into the hallway was blood splatter all over the wall. My heart fell down to my feet when I saw the dead dog in the corner. Somebody had cut Cori up into shreds. What the fuck? I felt even more dread when I pushed Nadia’s bedroom door open.

  “Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!” I screamed “Nadia!!!!!!!!!” The tears fell like the dam had broken. I had never cried so hard in my life.

  Keys caught me before I could fall to the floor. It was just too damn much. How much could a person take before they literally broke into a million pieces?

  “I prayed Keys,” I cried loudly. “I prayed, but God’s punishing me. Why does he keep punishing me? What did I do to deserve this? What did I do…?”

  “This isn’t your fault Sen. C’mon baby, don’t do that to yourself.”

  “I don’t understand it!” My eyes drifted back to Nadia’s bloody body on the bed, but Keys shielded my eyes.

  It was obvious that her neck had been slit and she’d been shot. That was clearly a crime of passion.

  “Don’t look. Get up babe. We gotta get out of here.”

  “I can’t leave her,” I sobbed. “I can’t…I can’t leave her…”