Chapter||9

These niggas be campin'

We pull up slanging that static

Don't do no talking

Have your shit together when we come

I got too many brothers that done died by the game

I murder it from the heart, so you say what you want

Wednesday 18th July

Armani squinted her eyes looking around at the unfamiliar but snug spacious room as she laid down on the cool, black comfortable sheet. What happened only a few hours prior were foggy in Armani's head and she hadn't fully recovered from her seizure yet.

She winced in pain as she tried to lean up against the head board, but it resulted in her laying back down flat on her back. Sighing, she decided to study the room more and began to notice the paintings of inspirational people hanging onto the wall.

Martin Luther King hung above the black wooden dresser in black and white as he looked upon the sky, the signature of him coated the left bottom of the painting in white cursive handwriting. A picture of Tupac posted up on the left side of the wall.

The sound of footsteps took Armani out of her gaze around the room as her eyes focused on the door waiting to be open. The footsteps got louder by the second but were stopped when it got to her door, a few seconds later Gunna's face emerged between the door with a smirk evident on his face.

"Hey beautiful," he spoke as he licked his lips eyeing her with lust in them. Shivers went through her body as she heard his deep raspy voice, as the horror of the night prior became apparent in her mind.

"Please can I just go," she softly asked sounding as if she was about to cry any minute now, which was music to Gunna's ears considering he likes to hear other people fall victim under him.

Gunna was the type of boy to get pleasure from watching other people suffer. He liked to see people break under his command and be their weakest in front of him because it gave him a sense of power and made him feel manly knowing we're afraid of him.

"Now why would I let such a pretty face like yours go," He walked closer towards her bed rubbing his moist hands together. Fear ran through Armani's body the closer he came forward, her hands began to tremble underneath the sheets as her eyes stayed glued to Gunna's eyes, which was filled with pure lust.

"The number of things I could do to you," he flirted showing his teeth which held a gold grill on the bottom row, to say the least Gunna was an attractive man, but he just ran with the wrong crowd and has a nasty attitude, making him less unattractive.

Armani didn't bother to reply as Gunna freely placed himself down on the bed making Armani crawl to the furthest end of the bed away from him.

He trailed the bed with his fingers inching nearer and nearer to where Armani was. His hand then gripped onto her ankle before he dragged her by it making her lay flat on her back with him towering over her small frame. He felt exultant and powerful as he saw the way she crumbled beneath him.

Finally having the courage to fight back now that she wasn't in chains she brought her knee up high and kneed Gunna in the face resulting to him letting up her ankle and attending to his now bleeding nose. Her kicking him only exacerbates the problem for her and the outcome of it all.

"You bitch," he shrieked as he looked at the blood on his hands before his face turned to anger.

"You are gonna regret that," he inched his way forgetting all about his bleeding nose and now focusing on Armani as she held a scared on her face.

He grabbed her by her hair that was in a ponytail and slung her to the carpet causing her to get carpet burn. She hissed in pain as she felt a kick to her face causing her to roll onto her side grunting in pain.

"Bitch don't ever disrespect me," just as he was about to send another kick to her face Armani grabbed his foot and quickly twisted it as far back as she could resulting in him wincing in pain holding onto his leg.

Armani took this as an opportunity as she brought up her leg and booted him in his crotch area causing him to crouch down and grunt in pain. She began to get up as best as she could but sadly not fast enough as Gunna recovered quickly from his pain and shoved her right into the dresser as the handles dug into her side.

"Ahh shit," she muttered elbowing him in his nose making it bleed right before Gunna sent another forceful punch to her face, feeling the anger built up in him.

Every other girl he had done things to had never had the guts to stand up to him and actually tried to fight him, so he wasn't used to having to do all this extra stuff.

Having enough of this back and forth fighting, he grabbed a handful of her hair and flung her to the floor dragging her out the bedroom while repeatedly punching her in her face. He took her to the basement as she just let herself get dragged without a fight because of the pain she was feeling not only in her stomach but in her face. Gunna dragged her to the metal pole and chained both her arms and legs to it. After he chained her he gave her one last kick in the leg before limping back upstairs.

"Why you do the girl like that," one of his workers said laughing as the rest joined in with the laughter.

"She caught her self trying to fight me, bitch lucky we need her ass or I would've bodied her," Gunna replied smacking his teeth as he made his way towards his office.

Gunna sat in his office chair with his feet propped up on the desk as he scanned through the plan his father had set into motion. So far everything has been going according to plan but he knew nothing ever is peaches and creams in the game. He knew the plan was very risky considering who the whites were and how they get down with business, but with the inside source he had, he thought he could at least make them suffer to the point their empire would start to crumble.

Kidnapping Armani was only the beginning of chaos.

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"How the fuck can you tell me she was kidnapped," Deshawn screamed into the phone to one of the workers.

"I'm sorry b-boss, she had lunch with someone and an altercation occurred which led to her getting kidnapped," the boys' voice shook with fear at what Deshawn might do to him.

"Who did she have lunch with," Deshawn responded with anger laced in his voice.

"We getting to that boss," he stated as him and other of their workers rode around in cars looking for Armani.

"Well get the fuck on to it now," he shouted before hanging up and storming to where Kairo's office laid. He barged into his office without knocking.

"The fuck you just barge in here for," Kairo voiced without knowledge of Armani's disappearance.

Deshawn just stared at Kairo with his nose flared thinking of ways to torture and kill whoever took her. Kairo watched him in confusion but soon became vexed as Deshawn began to make punches at the wall and fight everything in sight as he shouted in agony.

"They took her, them motherfuckers took her, they don't know what they just did, I swear I'm goi-" he rambled on before getting interrupted by Kairo.

"What, what are you talking about," he scrunched his face up in bafflement.

"Th-they took her, they fucking took her," he screamed flipping the chair that sat in front of his chest.

"Stop fucking screaming and tell me what the fuck happened," Kairo said as he shoved Deshawn gripping him up.

"Armani got kidnapped, we finding those niggas ASAP," Deshawn spoke with venom laced in his voice.

"The fuck You mean she got kidnapped," he asked with anger building up inside of him.

"Loose just phoned me and said she went out to lunch with someone and she got kidnapped, I wanna know who the fuck she went out with."

"Me too, we having a meeting now," he said as he pressed the blue button alerting everyone about the meeting.

The pair made their way towards the meeting room with mugs on their faces walking in sync with each other.

"Armani's kidnapped so until we find her none of y'all niggas leaving, you not going home to your family or anywhere until I find the bitch that had the balls to take her in a body bag," Kairo exclaimed clenching his jaw.

"Now everyone get the fuck out my office and find Armani," he demanded dismissing his workers.

"This gotta be no other than Nicks bitch ass," Deshawn mumbled.

"Oh best believe we gon' find them and every single one of them motherfuckers are going to die," Kairo promised.

"Let's go and look for her," Deshawn said as he made his way towards his car. His phone dinged during the time he got to the car started making him take a glimpse at the text noticing it was just Alexis.

Rolling his eyes in response he simply ignored her message not wanting to deal with her antics right now. Kairo followed Deshawn as they cruised around looking for Armani or anyone who has information on her. They had been riding and calling everyone they knew to find information on her but nothing seemed to come up. Kairos phone dinged as he slowed down to the group of boys that posted up on the corner.

"Hello pops" he answered

"You fail to inform me that my niece is missing," Omar's voice boomed through the Bluetooth speakers.

"I didn't want you to worry," he replied as he came to a halt shutting off his car.

"That's my niece, of course, I'm going to worry, have you found any information yet?" He enquires.

"No I'm looking pops," he said becoming irritated with him.

"I'm going to have some people try to hack into the security cameras and see what happened with her," Omar spoke as he sat with his laptop on the table getting ready to inform everyone now.

"You tell grandma yet?" Omar asked not wanting him to have to tell his mum that her granddaughter was kidnapped because of the business he was in.

"No, and I don't plan on to its just gon stress her out even more because Kain is already in the hospital, so until we find her I'm gonna fly grandma to Jamaica so her mind is off us for a while," Kairo replied as he watched Deshawn speak to the corner boys about Armani.

"That's cool, I'm finna go and talk to these people about everything and possibly get everything prepared for a war," He responded

"Ight I'll talk to you later pops," he hung up the phone as he exited out his car towards Deshawn.

"So wassup," King said soon as he approached with a mug in his face.

"Word around town it was Ryan's plan," One of the boys spoke not even knowing what was happening but knew that Ryan was with her. They still didn't know who Armani was with at the time she was kidnapped and it was killing them inside.

"Who the fuck is Ryan," Deshawn scrunched his face up in confusion at the name.

"A guy she's dating," Another boy spoke lowly.

"Dating!?" Deshawn and King exclaimed at the same time looking at each other with a 'wtf' face.

"Yeah but it's nothing serious," he tried to reason with them.

"Thanks appreciate it, man," King spoke as he pulled hundreds out of his pocket and handed it to each one of them.

"We finna find this motherfucker," King mumbled as the pair made their way to their cars cranking it up and riding around getting more information.

It was now 11 pm and everyone had been looking for Armani but still, she wasn't found. Taking him out of his trance he answered his phone at the last ring.

"Wassup man," he answered finally deciding to go home knowing Kam was up worried about everyone.

"We found out who Ryan is" His tech guy spoke through the phone.

"I want to know everything" King insisted eagerly to know who Ryan is.

"Well it says here he's 20 years old goes to UCLA and lives by himself while his mother is in Louisiana with his siblings and one of his brothers died a while back," he responded reading at the file he had in his hand that he had printed.

"So he her boyfriend?" He clarified wanting to be sure.

"Yep he her boyfriend," he snickered knowing Kairo was angry at this newfound information.

"I don't think he's involved with them because he got jumped by her the same day they took her, he was busted as well while still trying to help save her but collapsed before he could," the same boy clarified.

"So where he at now," he questioned

"He at Milton's hospital"

"Good looking out," Kairo replies starting his car up heading towards the hospital.

"No problem," he said before they both hung up. King angrily dialled Jakari's number wondering why he didn't seem to inform him about Armani's new boyfriend.

"Wassup," Jakari said first unknown to his sisters' kidnapping, he had been fucking with a girl all day and this is the first time he had picked up his phone.

"Nigga you sounding all happy when your sister out there kidnapped," King angrily spoke into the phone.

"Fuck you mean she got kidnapped," Jakari rushed out of bed heading towards his closet to put on some clothes.

"Yeah she got kidnapped but you better stay your little head ass at home because I don't know who they could be after next and you know Armani got a boyfriend," he rambled on. Driving to the hospital.

"No nigga I'm looking for my sister and no I ain't know she got a little boyfriend"

"Nigga watch your mouth and yes the fuck you are staying at home before I come and beat your skinny ass," King said seriously before hanging up the phone. Jakari sucked his teeth but knew Kiaro was dead serious, so he stayed put. It took King only 45 minutes to get to the hospital and he quickly found a parking space hopping out his car heading towards the hospital.

"I'm here to see Ryan," King spoke to the receptionist after waiting in line for so long.

"Ryan who," she stared lustfully at him, licking her lips in the process.

"Ryan Fain," he answered looking anywhere else but her feeling a bit uncomfortable from her creepy lustful stare. She typed the information into her computer and Ryan's name and information popped up at the screen.

"He's in room 582 on floor 4," she didn't even ask how they were related as she was to busy looking at his dick print that showed through his Nike tracksuits.

"Preciate it,"  he didn't even wait for a reply before he headed to his hospital room.

As he made his way to Ryan's room he planned on what he was going to say to him and if he should just kill him right now for messing with his baby girl. Without even knocking King pushed the blue wooden door back making his presence known as Ryan laid on his bed staring at him.

"You must be Ryan," he spoke first making his way towards his bed.

"Uh yeah," he nervously replied

"You know who I am," King spoke with a mug in his face trying to intimidate Ryan, and it was working. Ryan knew who King was but was oblivious at the fact that King and Armani were related.

"You're King, of course, I know you," Ryan replied still wondering why King was in his room.

"So you know I don't play about with my family," King's deep voice sweeps through his words as he takes a seat at the far end of the room.

"Of course, I would never mess with your family"

"So why you messing with my cousin," King spoke making Ryan furrow his eyebrows in confusion.

"Cousin, I don't mess with your cousin"

"Nigga don't act dumb," King said becoming impatient with him.

"Word around town is you helped Armani get kidnapped"

"I would never in my life put her in harm's way, so whoever told you that is lying," he truthfully replied.

"How I know you ain't lying"

"I would never put my girl in harm's way"

"And how many girls you mess with," King asked making Ryan confused but he still answered.

"I only mess with one girl." he honestly replied.

"You better be which is Armani, my cousin," King has a glare towards Ryan making him shift uncomfortably in his bed.

"I-I never knew she umm was your cousin," Ryan replied becoming intimidated by King.

"Well she is and she got kidnapped in your hand so wassup," he rose out of his seat making his way to Ryan.

"I tr-tried to s-save her" he stumbled across his words shocked that Armani hadn't told him she was related to the whites. Even though they had the same surname Ryan never thought anything of it considering that is a common surname and someone like the Armani he knows would could never be related to such ruthless people.

"Well you didn't try hard enough"

"Who are these fucking people that took her?" King continues questioning him.

"I-I don't k-know," he lied stuttering.

"Nigga now don't lie," King has seen the videotape but since the street cameras were so shit and the restaurant had no cameras at all, it was hard to pinpoint who they were.

"Just some boys who moved down here a few weeks ago," Ryan spoke just above a whisper not wanting to rat anyone out. Even if it will save his girlfriend, he didn't want anyone to know about his past, which included those boys.

"You pissing me off now, tell me their name or I'm blowing you and your families fucking head off," King threatened taking out his Glock and to point it at Ryan.

"Okay okay, his name is Hasan but they call him Gunna, he and his boys work for his dad"

"Who's his dad," King enquired

"I don't know his name, he's a very low-key person," Ryan lied but unfortunately King believed him and didn't question him on it any further.

"You know where I can find Hasan?"

"He just moved here and if he took Armani he will most likely be moving from place to place," Ryan truthfully replied.

"If I don't find her alive I'm coming after you and your entire fucking family," He threatened not even waiting for a response as he made his way outside heading in the direction of his car. Making it to his car he quickly rang his tech guy informing him on Gunna's name and wanting to know every single detail about him even the people he hangs around with frequently. The only thing that wasn't popping up on Gunna's record was his family history which pissed King off even more.

Taking him out of his misery he answered Kamiya's call on the third ring.

"Hey baby," he spoke first

"Hey, you find any information yet"

"Just a little helpful information, but I'm on my way home now baby," he tiredly yawned considering it was now nearing 1 am.

"I'll warm up your dinner for you now because I know you haven't eaten all day," she stated which was true.

"Thanks because I'm starving, I'm soon home"

"Okay bye love you," Kam made a kissy noise into the phone.

"Love you too," he replied hanging up the phone.

It took him only a few minutes before he made it to his house and now he was making his way towards the kitchen as he heard low soft music being played.

"Hey baby," he spoke as he kissed on her neck scaring her.

"Baby you scared me," she turned around giving him a long kiss on the lips.

"I missed you," he mumbled against her lips.

"I missed you too," she replied going to the oven to retrieve Kairos food. She had simply cooked chicken with potatoes and popped it in the oven to re-heat it.

"Thank you, baby, Liyah sleeping?" He questioned as he sat down in the stool with the plate in front of him.

"Yeah but it took her long to fall asleep, she was crying for you," she said as she sat on his lap.

"Awww my baby," he cooed.

The pair sat in silence with Kam massaging Kairo, the only thing that could be heard was the fork and plate clattering together.

"We gon find her baby," she reassured him seeing the look of distress plastered on his face.

"I hope so, they don't know what's coming to them,"!he was becoming all angry over again.

"Baby calm down and breath,"?she coached him as she rubbed against his chest as they laid in bed.

"And she better be as she left or heads are coming off," He threatened, to no one in particular.

"Baby she's going to be fine," she reassured him not even knowing if it was true or not but hoping it was.

"You don't know that, we all hope they don't touch her like that but the truth of the matter is we don't know what they're capable of doing, they could be doing anything to her right now and I'm here fucking useless in bed with you," he ranted on becoming irked.

"Baby calm down, don't think like that," she ignored the sly comment he said towards her.

"What else is there to think, my cousin who has been nothing less than an angel is out there by herself probably scared shitless," he shouted at her hating how calm she was knowing the lifestyle he lived and the people he and his family had pissed off during their time in the game.

"You know the lifestyle I live, you know what the people are capable of so don't act all nonchalant about it, just because it's not your family at least show that you care about her," he now began to raise his voice at her.

"How can you say I don't care, I treat her like she's my fucking sister of course I care but I have faith in God That she will be okay," she spoke calmly not once raising her voice at Kairo.

"I ain't even seen you shed a tear yet"

"Nigga you been here for like an hour how you suppose to know, this morning I bawled my eyes out, I kept calling her hoping it wasn't real, but I don't care," she sarcastically said towards the end.

"I'm over it anyway, I'm just tired wanting to go to my bed," he dismissed the conversation not wanting to face the fact he was wrong and starting an argument that was not needed. He turned his back towards her now facing the wall as Kam stared at his tattooed back.

"That's all you do, run away from your damn problems, tired my ass," she mumbled purposefully pulling on the duvet cover.

"What you mean tired my ass, I been up all day while you been at home doing God knows what while I'm not even eating, you even said it your damn self, so yes I am tired," he spoke with his back still facing her.

"I been taking care of the house and Liyah, plus I took the day off today to help find Armani," she replied now with her facing the wall as well. The couple were just being petty towards each other and every little thing they would argue about but the next day act as if nothing had happened.

"Liyah sleep most of the damn time anyway"

"Okay but when she's not asleep she's a hand full, maybe if you were home long enough you would know all of this," she said throwing shade at him.

"Man whatever," he mumbled not having a comeback to that.

"Yeah whatever," she mocked him before they both fell in silence with Kairo not even caring about the whole argument but Kam having it heavily on her mind about her whole relationship, thinking how in the beginning everything was peaches and cream to now where they have an argument nearly every other day. She didn't know where they were going wrong but wanted it to change fast, she was getting tired of this back and forth business between them.

*vibration*

Kairos phone vibrated and no later than a second after he checked so desperately wanting to get information on Armani's whereabouts.

Kairo stared at the phone for a few seconds becoming heated as he saw the image.

He hopped out of bed going to his wardrobe picking out clothes that didn't even match on, not even caring as Kam bombarded him with questions on what's happening.

"Kairo what's wrong," she asked but was ignored as he quickly slipped on his shoes rushing downstairs with Kam still hot on her tail.

"Kairo wait," she said breathlessly after just jogging down the stairs trying to catch up with Kairo. He simply ignored her heading towards the door.

"Babe what's on the phone," she noticed him clenching the phone ever so often. Kairo didn't even turn around as he answered her question opening the door.

"It's an explicit and disturbing picture of Armani, they getting it today," he threatened with venom laced in each word emphasising it.

"Don't wait up," he continued before he slammed the door loudly not even waiting for Kam to reply as she stood there with tears in her eyes. She didn't even run after him because she knew it would be a waste of time and getting him even more stressed because Kairo doesn't listen when his family's in danger.

Kam simply turned on her feet wiping at face going back to her bed, praying Kairo and Armani come back in one piece.

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