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I was almost sure that nigga was pissed about his nose. I knocked three times, and a few seconds later, he opened the cabin with a scowl on his face then walked back to his seat. I closed the door and sat next to him.
“Yo, you good?”
“Fuck no, man. She broke my fucking nose. If I had known it was going to go like this, I would have been much better prepared. Why’d you leave her loose?”
“I didn’t. I forgot to put the tape back over her mouth, so she must have bit into the tape. Don’t worry, with the money you’re getting you can get corrective surgery. It’s too big for your face anyway.”
“Fuck you, Play. I hope she’s worth all this damn trouble.”
“Maybe not, but what are you complaining for? Ya broke ass could use the money. Now where’s the first aid kit?”
“Next to the cabinet in the kitchen.”
I walked back out of the cabin, and as soon as I closed the door and turned around, I saw a broken bottle coming toward my head. On instinct, I ducked and twisted her wrist behind her back prompting her to drop the broken bottle. Pushing her against the wall, I sneered against her ear.
“Are you fucking crazy? Are you really trying to make me kill your ass?”
“Death is better than going back to a controlling, manipulative, arrogant asshole! I’d rather be dead than go back to him! Don’t you get it?” she asked then broke into a fit of tears.
I released her and turned her around. The pain in her eyes let me know that this really wasn’t what I initially thought it was. The storms brewing in her orbs told me the story of how all this came to be. It took me a minute, but I understood the severity of releasing her to the man she desperately wanted to stay away from. I mean, for her to take his money and create a whole other identity to protect her and her child, it had to be something more to this.
“A’ight, Bunny. Just calm down. Let me help you,” I told her, pushing her hair out of her face. “Where’s lil mama?”
She wiped the snot and tears from her face with the back of her hand. “In the bathroom, hiding.”
“So you were going to kill me, and then what?”
“Wait until this plane landed and escape. What the hell else do you think I was going to do?”
I chuckled lightly and shook my head. Her feistiness and determination to get away from me had me more intrigued than I wanted to be. I walked over to the door and knocked lightly. No answer.
“Kari, open the door, baby.” The lock disengaged and she came out, rushing to her mother and hugging her around her waist. Nala winced, I’m sure from the pain in her arm.
“Mommy, I want to go home!”
“I know, Kari. We’ll be home soon. I promise.”
I swiped a hand down my face. “Can I trust you to just have a seat? I promise I’m not out to hurt y’all. I’ll make y’all a snack and get your arm and ankle wrapped up. Can you at least let me do that?”
She didn’t speak. She guided her daughter back to their seats as I prepared them something to snack on. It only took me a second to put together a smorgasbord of three different meats, some cheeses, crackers, little chocolates, nuts, and fruits. After that was complete, I turned her seat around and pulled the table from the compartment in the wall, then placed the board in front of them. I walked back to the kitchen to grab some waters and hand sanitizer when I overheard baby girl praying.
“God, please bless this food and bless all these bad people in the world. Please allow the bad man to let us go back home. I’m really scared and so is Mommy. Please touch his heart to let us go. In Your name we pray. Amen.”
I watched as Nala leaned over and kissed her forehead, telling her that everything was going to be okay. I walked up and placed the bottles on the table with the labels facing them then left them to it. I had to go meditate because all this shit was really taking a toll on me. The last thing I wanted was to have this shit on my conscience. Once we landed, I had no choice but to let her be free.
The jet landed around 12:00 p.m. I didn’t close my eyes until I saw that they had finally closed theirs, and even still, I was on high alert. Once the jet stopped, the car service I ordered was already in place when Carl opened up the doors to let us out. For a moment, I just stared at them both, contemplating if I should hand them over immediately, or wait a few days since that nigga had me going through this shit for a measly six figures. I had that ten times over, so this wasn’t about the money anymore. I was a cold nigga… Always had been.
I never cared about anyone's feelings, because growing up, I’d always felt like no one cared about mine. However, Bunny and lil Rabbit had done something to me to make all this shit seem as if I was doing a bad deed. I got out of the hitter’s game because I wanted to start over and turn over a new leaf. I told myself that doing the shit that I did would one day come back to haunt me. Although I wasn’t going to hurt them, the fact of it all was that the man I was handing them over to could possibly kill them, and I would be the cause of it all.
I shook her gently, she jumped and put her fists up in fighting mode.
“Come on.”
She shook her daughter awake then stood, limping toward the open door.
“I need to go to the hospital.”
“I’m going to take care of it. Just walk.”
