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The whiteboard held my attention as I cracked the door open a bit more and looked at the photos of my brothers. She had pictures of them with their wives, and one picture of Cappadonna with Promise. Cappadonna’s picture was in the center with a bunch of circles drawn around it. My picture was linked to the side, along with Capone. She had pictures of Quameer and Quasim up there, along with Goon. There was a question mark near Goon and Quasim. From there, the picture of Zoya was next to mine, with a long line to the other side of the board with a blank picture, but Menace Caselli was written
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was laid on my back looking up at the ceiling, not able to sleep because of what I had done. I knew when I went to Fern, I was going to leave with Shante. I was man enough to admit that I didn’t go there for the drinks, and Quasim wasn’t there to stop me from what I knew I shouldn’t have been doing.
“So, where the fuck were you when they needed you! Your girl fucking needed you and you failed to protect her! Had she not fucking called me, we wouldn’t even know what the fuck would have happened!” he barked, spit flying from his mouth. “I didn’t fucking raise you like that!” “You didn’t fucking raise me at all!” I barked, shoving him, and he didn’t even move an inch as he looked at me. “I’m a grown ass fucking man, you ain’t raise shit!”
“Rory Delgato’s family,” the nurse came from the back door, and I turned to face her. “You can come to the back, he wants pizza and a Quack-Quack,” she gave me a smile, and my heart settled in place knowing my boy was up, alert and wanted pizza. His favorite. “I’ll go get Alaia,” Erin ran down the hallway to wherever my father and Alaia was, as I walked toward the nurse.
“The fuck kind of question is that?” “An honest one, Capella. I’m falling for you, and I need to know if you’re going back to her? Am I something to do in the meantime until you both fix things…she tried to kill your kid.” “Chill the fuck out, Shante. Don’t speak on shit that you don’t even fucking know. Aimee got a lot of shit with her, but she would never intentionally try to fucking kill my son.” “Your words, not mine.”