12:45 p.m.

When I finally woke up, my head was throbbing and my body felt all bruised up. The last thing I was expecting was for Cyrus to send his goons after me. Shit, I never knew he was here in LA. I never had any real beef with Cyrus until I met Stacy but she was making me question if I still wanted to be with her.

I took a chance on my life and risked the lives of my family to keep her alive. Betrayal doesn't get any worse than that.

"Mmmm, good morning baby."

I was sitting on the edge of my bed when I heard a woman's voice and it didn't sound like Stacy. I turned to see Diamond, ass naked and stretching in under my sheets like she belonged here.

"What the hell!" I jumped up

"What's the matter baby?" She said calmly

"What's the matter? Why the fuck are you naked in my bed?"

"Really Kai? I mean I know it was that good but you don't have to sice my head up. Tryna act like you don't remember."

I looked at her in disbelief and went into the bathroom.

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" I hit my head over and over.

How could I be so dumb to let Diamond take advantage of me like that. I don't even remember doing it with her and that's the funny thing about it.

I felt like a piece of shit! I knew I had did Stacy wrong and I had to tell her but I was more upset with myself for allowing her to take advantage.

I calmed myself as I stared at my reflection in the mirror. Then, I went back into the bathroom.

"Everything ok?"

"No, it's not actually. You need to leave."

"Leave? After the night we just had, you're kicking me out?"

"Look, I don't know what you did to me but I know I didn't intentionally sleep with you!"

"Kai, would I be here if it wasn't intentional? I was going to patch up your cuts and bruises and then you picked me up and carried me in here. If I knew why you did that, I would tell you."

"Either way, I need you to leave. I have a lot to think about."

She calmly got her things, dressed herself and left without any hesitation. Which was weird for a psychopath like her to do.

I looked at the clock and thought about Stacy. I didn't know if she was here, if she saw us in bed together. I barely remembered last night my damn self.

Right before I was about to get in the shower, my phone rang; It was Moe calling.

Moe was the nigga my father put in charge for all the drug shipments coming and going for our territory. I haven't seen him since I came back which shows me how much I've really been lacking as far as my leadership goes.

Stacy had my head all wrapped up into her and keeping her safe when this whole time she was in on it. If I do anything, I gotta make her feel like she made me feel when I found out she lied to me.

"Knowledge, where the fuck have you been boy!" Moe hollered once he heard my voice

"Mannn I've been going through a lot of shit. Don't even know where to start."

"Well let's not worry about that right now. I've got some things I need to share with you. You know as head of the King Cartel, we have to bring things to your attention,"

"I'm listening."

"I counted the money from the last shipment and found that a large sum of money is missing."

"How much?"

"A couple thousand."

"WHAT! You wanna tell me how the fuck that happened?"

"I don't know boss but I'm working hard to find out who, what, when, where and how."

"You better or innocent people will die!"

"I give you my word. But um, One last thing, there's a shipment coming in today at 4. They just called and said things got a little tight so they had to leave early."

As if there wasn't enough shit going on with me right now.

"Call the boys to the house, we need to have a meeting before I take ANYBODY with me to get this pick up."

"Done!"

I ended the call and threw my phone on the bed.

Stealing? That was just one of the things I hated. A Fucking Thief!

I was going to get to the bottom of this before I let any of those fucks take part in the shipment process. There was a lot of drugs and money coming in for this one and the last thing I needed was to have a trader(s) to watch my back.

So I took my shower and left out soon after.

I didn't want to kill anybody but this whole situation with Stacy has my head fucked up! The way I'm feeling right now, I could kill the whole squad and find some new loyal mother fuckers to watch this side of the territory. It was nothing for me to pull another nigga from one of the other houses and station him at this one.

When I arrived at Trap House #2 as I like to call it, I was like a ticking time bomb.
Moe was standing in the door waiting to calm
me down before I walked in.

I pushed him aside and joined the other 13 men inside the main room. They were all standing there like fish out of water. Scared Shitless!

"Good afternoon niggas!" I yelled but no one responded. "Moe called me with some pretty interesting news... one of you fucking idiots decided to steal thousands of dollars from me like I wouldn't fucking find out! But don't worry we'll get to the bottom of this." I paced back and forth in front of them. "There's a new shipment coming in a few hours and I'll kill all of you before I don't find out who took my money. Hell, maybe if you speak up and confess, I might spare your life."

"Ask that nigga Roos where your money went." Malik spoke up.

I walked over to him and leaned in. "Roos? And why would you throw his name out there?" I looked over at Roos who refused to make eye contact with me.

"Cause lately this nigga been splurging all over town. Taking all these different bitches out on dates, new fresh clothes and jewelry,"

"Man so the fuck what!" Roos yelled out. "You acting like a nigga can't come up in the game or something. Why I gotta be a thief? Maybe I could've gotten the money a different way to pay for all that stuff!"

"Nigga please, you spend all your time here or out on the street selling the shit just to bring it back here! I'm not losing my life over you!" Said Malik

Once he said that, Roos started walking towards him with his fists balled up.

Next thing I knew, Malik had swung and knocked Roos to the ground. Humiliated, Roos got up and tried to fight back but by now, the rest of the workers were trying to break it up.

It was getting louder and crazier by the second so I shot a bullet into the ceiling. Immediately they calmed down and got back into line.

"Everybody get in your cars and lets take a trip to Roos' house." I told them.

As they started to do what I asked, I walked up to Malik.

"If I don't find any money or evidence that he stole my money, it'll be your head that I'll have on display as an example."

Malik nodded nervously and followed me outside to his car. I jumped in my car and told
Moe to ride with me.

"What you think Kai?" Moe asked

"Man, I don't know what to think. I don't wanna believe that Roos would do something like that but what reason does Malik have to lie. He's been loyal since day one. "

"Yea if you ask me, there's been a few incidents where I questioned Roos' loyalty. Guess we bouta find out huh?"

"You damn right! Either way, somebody ain't going home tonight!"




•




When we got to Roos' house, I had two of the workers tie him up.

"The rest of you go search the house. I'll stay here and have a little chit chat with Mr Roos."

I could see all in his eyes how scared Roos was.

"I don't want to do this to you Roos, I really don't. But you know how this shit goes. I mean for crying out loud you were apart of my fathers team. He picked you just like the rest. Why did you do it?"

He refused to look at me again. A clear sign of guilt.

"Hey Boss," Moe shouted. "You might want to come look at this."

I smiled deviously at Roos and went upstairs where Moe was calling from.

"Go down there and make sure he doesn't run away." I told the workers.

Moe was standing in Roos' room with a $100 bill in his hand.

"That's just a regular bill." I told him

"Oh yea, so what's this?"

I snatched it from him and examined it.

"Damn Roos." I shook my head and sighed when I saw the big imprint of the letter "K" on the front.

My father had his territory on lock so hard that he even had his own money printed out. We could use it anywhere we wanted and even parts of the government knew about it. He stamped all of his bills with the letter K so everyone would know who's money they were dealing with. Til this day, everybody recognizes the bill when they see it.

I was hurt to see that Roos did this to me. He's seen me grow up since I was a teen. And apparently I thought I could trust him. But now I had to make and example out of him in front of everybody else in case they had any bright ideas.

Malik was still standing there in the hallway with a sense of relief on his face.

"You lucky mother fucker." I told him
"Moe I need you to go get the tool out the trunk for me."

He nodded and went on his way.

"Cmon Malik, let me show you why you should never try no stupid shit with me."

When we came down the steps, Moe was walking back into the house with my fathers custom made axe. It was the perfect little tool just for shit like this.

I came walking around the corner into the kitchen where Roos was still tied up and sitting in a chair against the wall.

His eyes widened when he saw the small axe in my hand.

Without saying a word, I gripped the axe, swung it around and amputated his head from his body with one quick blow!

I could see the rest of the workers jump or turn their heads as the axe collided with his neck.

His head rested on top of the axe that was now stuck in the wall.

"Son of a bitch!" I tugged and tugged but the axe wouldn't come out and everybody was too scared to step closer and help.

With blood gushing out everywhere, it was time for us to go before somebody seen or heard anything. So I pressed my foot on the wall and pulled as hard as I could until the axe finally popped out.

"Search the house and find the rest of the money." I told them.

I stepped up to Moe and Malik to shake their hand.

"Moe, I need you to call Que and tell him that I need him and his crew to come with us for this shipment. I would trust them more than these lying mother fuckers in here."

"So what do you want me to do?" Said Malik

"I want you to come with us. I've seen you handle your business before. I need you on the team."

I left the rest of the workers there with Moe and Malik and then went back home. The shipment wasn't due til 4 pm so that gave me enough time to find Stacy and let her know what the fuck I did. I just hope she doesn't kill me.