51. Nobody's safe

Paris heat raced as she slowly started dialing Scarlett number since king wasn't answering his phone

"hello" Paris said waiting for her to answer

" you heard from him?"

" no but baby listen they want you to let Ariana go you have til 12 or he's going to kill me" she said pretending she was talking to king.

Scarlett sat up so fast that a head rush, she stood up walking to Carter " we gotta let Ariana go like right now"

Carter looked up at her like she was crazy " I ain't letting that bitch go" he knew if he let Ariana out of their site she'll disappear cause she was damn good at it

" yes. The fuck you are, Paris life is endangered."

"That ain't got none to do with me-"

" if king's really your 'bro' then yeah it does cause he really likes her and plus we haven't heard from him in 2 days she needs us, please."

" wasn't you the one that cursed me out the last time I tried helping king out and now yo-"

" I was just scared you was going to get caught with a body in your damn car." She sighed looking at him with hope in her eyes, she knew she could change Carter mind if she kept on talking or complaining he'd get aggravated and he'd do anything to make her stop

" Carter!!"

" aight damn, grab me my phone" he told her and stood up grabbing his shirt, a wide smile came on Scarlett face as she handed him the phone

" I'll be back." He said hugging her and then kissed her forehead, Scarlett face scrunch up in confusion

" I'm not staying here by myself, I want to go with you" she pouted making him look at her like she was crazy

" yeah you is and that ain't up for debate" He sternly told her

" why?" She questioned

" cause you're fucking pregnant" he told her reminding her that she wasn't just putting her life in danger but that she's also putting their baby, they found out a few months ago when she went to visit the doctor

" okay. I'm pregnant not handicap, I can still shoot a nigga between they eyes" she argued back crossing her arms

Carter look at her with a smile and then shook his head at her " how bout you stay here and protect my child"

" fine. Please be safe" she softly whispered kissing his lips.

Carter walked in the trap and without greeting anyone he signal for a couple of workers to follow him into the room Ariana was in and he opened the door and sat down in front of her

" your new crew wants you back but I want you dead" he said shaking his head at her he was disgusted that his own cousin was behind king's downfall, she was an opp and he had zero tolerance for them.

" I'm their leaders girl they'd do anything to get me back so I advise you to let me go, my problems is not with you." She shrugged her shoulder then continued

" if things happened To you it was cause you were always protecting this nigga more then your own blood. Joey fucking died and you ain't feel no type of way but when this nigga father died y'all was having a pity party for him like he fucking mattered more then my brother. What is it with you and king?"

" no matter how you distance yourself from me, we're still related nigga" Arianna said then burst into fits of laughters

" your momma would turn in her grave knowing you killed your own cousin,"

"  she was a crackhead that burned down her fucking house and got her kids taken away. her judgement don't matter and bringing her up won't do shit to me" Carter chuckled standing up and going to the table where there was several guns laying on it and a couple of knifes. He knew what she was trying to do and it wasn't going to work on him.

" blood or not you ain't safe once you go against me you lose your life" he said taking the gun and went to sit back in his seat

" you can't kill me, my crew will kill that bitch"Ariana said but her voice crack a little fear was creeping in her body

Carter ignored her and put the clip in the back of the Gun and loaded it off safety

" Then so be it. As long as you know your bitch ass crew can't save you" he said pulling the trigger seeing how her eyes widened in shock and in a blink of an eye her life slip away from her

" somebody clean this room. Johndo and rell  follow me." He ordered while washing his hands then he walked out while they followed him

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" ain't that ghost car outside?" Rell pointed over to the empty car and carter nodded " yeah. y'all stay in here and ima go in if y'all ion hear from me in 15 minutes blow this shit up"

" you sure?" Their eyes widened in shock. They knew carter was ruthless but they thought over the years he'd calm down

" if I wasn't I wouldn't ordered it. Now put that timer on" he said hoping out the car and walked to the front of the building using the same code king did and entered

" welcome to-"

" this ain't my first time coming here" he dismissed her and kept walking til he reach the elevator, he went in it and soon as the door closed he took out his gun and loaded it then put it back in his waistband and walked out on the top floor

He ignored all the workers in the front desk and kept walking down til one loud mouth one Called out for him to stop. Carter turned around slowly and stared at her in questioning

" do you have a meeting set? If you did sorry to inform you but my boss canceled them all"

" call him and tell him that Amir is here to see him" he told her rolling up his shirt sleeve

" now!" He yelled to the women when she stood there staring at him, she quickly grabbed the phone and called him

" s-sir uh- I know I-I'm sorry but he insisted that I call you, y-yeah his name is Amir. Oh okay." She said ending the call then turned to carter " the double doors down there"

Carter nodded and started walking to the double door when he did he opened it and he seen it was a large round table filled with people sitting they all turned around and pointed their guns at him

" where your boss at?" Carter asked gripping on his gun that was in the back of his waistband

" who's asking?"

" Amir"

" follow me" the one he asked the questioned stood up and went inside a room that was connected to the one they were in

" unc! Some nigga name Amir here to see you"

Dwayne head snapped towards carter and he squinted his eyes at him " This ain't the Amir I know. Who the fuck are you " he said confused

" Where king at?" Carter asked ignoring his statement

" king? I don't know no one named king"

Carter chuckled nodding his head " alright." He turned around to walk out the room when he called out after him

" where you know him from?"

" answer my question first, then if I feel like it ima answer yours"

Dwayne chuckled then it turned into a full on laughter as all the men from the other room was around them and they all aimed their guns at Carter again

" Where King at?" Carter asked again getting mad

" king!  you here? " he said looking around then look at Carter " ion see him, that mean he ain't here"

" aight cool. When you see him tell him ole dude got his girl" he said turning around and started walking back out when his chest touched one of Dwayne men's gun causing him to stop. carter glared at him But stepped back knowing he couldn't do nothing to him, he turned around and face Dwayne

" are you the messenger?"

"  he got til 12, if he ion show his face up they kill his girl and then they'll go for his family but he ain't here so y'all don't gotta worry bout that" he shrugged at the same time Dwayne phone made a sound then he picked it up and read the message

" Carter Amir knight." Dwayne said nodding like he won something.

Carter raised his eyebrows at him he knew they were holding him there for a reason but he didn't think it was to figure out who he was

" I might know where king is"  He said him turning around to another door and entered a code then the door opened reveling another room and in that room king, Davonte, ghost and Kai'jai were laying down

" what y'all did to them"  he asked walking in seeing they were all sleeping

" He ain't want to calm down so we knocked him out, The others too. we was gon let them go today "

Carter walk up to king and shook him till he woke up, " come on nigga, We gotta go" he told him while he went to wake up the rest

King groaned from the sudden pain he felt behind his head and his wrist. he was regretting that he didn't listen when they told him to calm down now his wrist was swollen.

He sat up with his eyes closed and then he opened it and look at the room filled with people and slowly stood up and walked over to Dwayne

  " This for knocking me out." He told him punching him in the face while Dwayne workers aimed their guns at him

" put them down. It's all good" he told them nodding. King retracted him hands and softly rubbed his wrist it was hurting him intensely now but he ain't care as long as he had one good hit " you feel better?" Dwayne said laughing

King shrugged he wanted to beat his ass but still felt he needed to respect him Incase he was really his uncle

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Rell and rondo took ghost car back to the trap while the rest of them went with Carter

" Who's these niggas is?" Carter asked king once they were away from them, king took a long sigh and shrugged

Davonte scoffed loudly from the back of the car
" the muscle head one is his cousin  and the one name Dwayne is his uncle" he told Carter while King glared at him

" uncle? Ain't your uncle dead?"

" nigga stop asking me questions and tell me what the fuck is going on" king said, his head felt heavy, he didn't know if it was pint up anger or hurt.

" Paris called earlier she had a message for you that ole dude wants Ariana in exchange for Her. And by the way Ariana is dead" he told him gripping the steering wheel

" what the fuck! Who?" Kai'jai yelled in shock

" yeah. You missed it. It wasn't painful" he said in nonchalant and shrugged like it was nothing. 

" now how the fuck we gon-"

" come on now I taught y'all niggas better than that y'all know damn well he wasn't gon exchange Paris for Ariana for real they just want us to give her to them then they gon be at advantage"

King groaned closing his eyes he had too much things going on at once, his head felt like it was going to explode any minute now.

He opened his eyes and took his phone from his pocket and seen 100 missed calls and messages then he scrolled down everyone number till he reach Paris's he quickly clicked on it and then let it ring and went straight to voice message, he called again and it did the same thing.

" what's the number?" He asked and once carter gave it to him, he dialed it and waited for it to ring

Paris heart fluttered once she seen King's number popping up on the phone, she couldn't help but sigh in relief and answered it

" hello"

" You straight?" He asked getting straight to the point

Paris looked around seeing the man was staring at her " uh- yeah. How about you?" She asked

" I'm- good" king said looking down at his left wrist " you got me on speaker?"

" no." She answered seeing the man was looking at her in curiosity

" good. Grab my gun from upstairs and blow this nigga head off like we practice"

Paris heart picked up its pace and she shook her head " I- don't think I can"

King sighed loudly " don't be scared, it's self defense. But if you can't Don't worry I'm on my way. Let him know to have you out before we pull up so we can trade"

" okay." She whispered closing her eyes

" be careful alright" he told her and she nodded and ended the call

"What He say?" He asked walking up to her

" b- be outside before he pull up so we can trade" she told him

" that's it" He asked and she nodded looking away, searching for a knife but she knew she didn't have the guts to stab someone

" I need to use the bathroom" she told him staring hoping to make him uncomfortable

" i don't have time for that" he yelled

" I can't hold it." She yelled back scrunching her face at him

" lets go" he said as he slid his gun out and made her walk in front of him when they reach her room she went inside the bathroom and went to close it when he put his foot in between them and stepped in " I'm not letting you out my site"

" turn around" Paris said and he nodded and turned Paris acted as she was peeing and she scanned the room and instantly he had one in the bathroom cup holder cause she argued about that with him

" I need to take my medicine" Paris said flushing the toilet and went by the sink to watch her hands

" fuck you need medicine for, you sick" he asked twisting his face in disgust

" i was poisoned by y'all and I almost died, if I'm sick y'all caused it" she told him then headed to the cupboard when the doorbell ring he quickly snap his gaze to Paris and they both stared at each other for a second, he gave her a stern look and put his gun off safety " stay right here. Don't go nowhere" he said then walked away

Paris heart raced hoping it was king at the same time part of her was worried that the man would hurt him and the thought scared her.

She quickly locked the door and slid the mirror opened and Kings gun was sitting there, she took it and held it with a firm grip then she stared at it for a minute forgetting how king taught her to load the bullets in

Paris closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she should Of walked away when he told her to, she wasn't ready for this lifestyle.

" bitch unlock this door now"  he said banging on the door scaring Paris. She started to panic not knowing where to hide the gun from him

" you got 4 second" Paris eyes widened in fear and without thinking she stuff it in her waist and watch the door get busted opened

" get the fuck out now" he pushed her out the bathroom and force her to sit on the bed while he sat in a chair a couple feet away from her waiting on his phone to ring.

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" this shit getting more complicated" Davonte said while his head was laid back on the seat and his eyes were closed while he rubbed his temple

" let me get this straight tyrek was behind this shit?" Carter said after they explained to him what they just found out " damn that's foul"

" I feel you boss but on some real shit your girl should be your number one priority, she innocent ass fuck and I'd hate for something to happen to her" ghost said entering in on the conversation

King nodded but didn't talk back instead he was deep in his thought

Rafael Roux, Isaac Wellington, and Viviana Reyes kept on ringing in king's head, king remembered Soraya had named the people that had 'kidnapped' Ariana, maybe they were all apart of ole dude crew he thought before grabbing his phone and dialed a Soraya number when it went to voicemail he dialed her sister number

" who's this?" The person on the other line answered

" king. Where Soraya at?" He asked. Last time he talked to her was when she told begged him to protect her.

" I don't know. I haven't heard from her in a couple of days" 

King clenched his jaw tightly hoping she wasn't trying to play him like Kia did when she was the only one that know who kidnap Arianna and that could help them know who is ole dude and where he stay at

" hold up. Make a u turn right quick" King said as carter pressed on the brakes and instantly made a U-turn spinning the car around

" what? You got a lead"

" nah. But I'm finna get it from Soraya " he told him since they passed her apartment. They parked the car around the front and king and ghost stepped out, he needed ghost to track the names of them.

They walked in from the back of the building and went up the elevator stopping at her floor

King knocked on the door several times and he didn't get no answer then he started banging on it " yo Soraya!" He yelled and still he didn't get no answer

" she probably ain't here " ghost told him after several minutes passed but king was determined

" I got the code. I just ain't want to bust in on her like that " King told him putting it in and then unlock the door  and seen all the lights were turned off

" Soraya" he yelled but didn't get no answer. He walked further in and seen everything was in place then sat a note on top of the kitchen counter

King, I'm thankful for your protection even though I couldn't give you the answers that you wanted. I tried to walk away but there's no way I can walk away completely and  I can't keep running away so they could keep on finding me. I'm tired, I can't do this no more. I'm sorry.

He grabbed the note and read it then his face scrunched up in confusion thinking what was she talking about then he heard ghost yelled " oh shit!"

King slid the note in his pocket and then walked over to the room where ghost was and instantly stopped in his track seeing Soraya laying in her own puddle of blood with a gunshot wound to the side of her head

He couldn't help but feel something in him snapped, he was angry and it was taking everything in him not to start going crazy

" let's go!" King stepped back and turned around leaving the room.

" drive!" King said once they got back in the car. his adrenaline was racing he was eager to put a bullet in ole dude

" she killed herself"  Ghost said in disbelief, he was a little shock and the image was playing in his mind

" damn that's crazy" Davonte said breaking the silence that went on after ghost stated that

" what you planning on doing?" Carter asked taking a glance at king

" I'm going to get my girl before these niggas do something to her."

" how? We ion got Ariana" Kai'jai said looking at king crazy

" don't worry bout that. Ima need y'all to head over to my mama house and some of y'all need to go to the trap and check if Kia still alive" He told them once they got by Paris house

" Nah we ain't finna leave you, and it don't take that many people to get them out"

" Ima be straight this nigga ain't gon kill me cause Ole dude wants to do it" he said before carter stopped him giving him another gun

" alway stay strapped. I'm finna drop these niggas and i better see you when I pull back up in 10 minutes "

" aight." King nodded and stepped out then he walk up to her driveway and began to walk up the steps when suddenly someone grabbed him and put a black burlap bag over his head before he could fight his way out of it they knocked him out and then lifted him up throwing his body into the back of trunk and slammed it shut.

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