Chapter 19

Jade

Before I came down here, my plans were simple. I was going to follow Mimi and her little crew to see if I could get any information about Kaylin and find him, but it looks like Miss Mimi had a few other things on her plate right now. I wanted to feel sorry for the bitch, but honestly, I didn’t. The ho deserved everything that was coming to her. What she didn’t get, I’d be sure to bring to her ass. I was going to make that bitch wish like hell that she had stayed dead.

I sat farther back in the corner of the hospital, peeping shit out. I made sure that no one could see me, but I could see everything. I wasn’t trying to blow my cover just yet. I wanted to get what I wanted first, and then I’d shake shit up. I didn’t want them to know that I was on to them. I wanted them to believe that I wasn’t a problem, they didn’t have to worry about me. I wanted me to be the last person on their minds so that when I decided to strike, they wouldn’t see me coming.

“I hope they hurry the fuck up,” I said to myself. I was hungry, thirsty, and I was beginning to get tired. I hadn’t slept in days. I was so busy trying to find Kaylin’s ass that I didn’t take care of myself. I hadn’t eaten in days, and I was losing a lot of weight. That stressing shit was not for me.

Thinking about Kaylin, I remembered that I had the papers and deeds to all of the properties that he had owned down here. I needed Mimi and them to finish over here so that I could go ahead and check on them. I was willing to bet my last dollar that the nigga was hiding in one of those spots and I was going to find him one way or another. I wasn’t leaving New Orleans until I found his ass, and he was going to come back with me, either by choice or by force. Yeah, I knew that sounded a little crazy, but he made me that way. He should’ve known better than to fuck with me, because I wasn’t the type of girl to let go easily. When I saw something that I wanted, I got it, no matter what I had to go through to get it.

“Bitch, you know damn well that man doesn’t want you,” I heard a voice say. I looked around, trying to find the person who had said it, but there was no one there.

“Yeah, I know you hear me talking to you. Kaylin never did want you. You was always just a piece of ass to him,” the voice said again.

I looked around again, trying to see who said the shit, but there was no one sitting around me. The only people sitting in the waiting room were Troy, Mimi, their bodyguards, and me. I knew for sure that none of them had said it, because they didn’t even know that I was there to begin with.

“You can keep looking around all you want. You’ll never find me in here.”

“I don’t know who the fuck you are, but you better go ahead, if you know what’s best for you,” I replied.

“Child, you and I both know you ain’t ’bout that life,” she said, laughing an evil laugh that sent chills down my spine. It took me a minute to figure it out, but I realized that the voice was actually coming from inside of my head.

“Leave me alone!” I said, talking to myself.

“Nah, somebody needs to talk some sense into you. You need to leave that man alone.”

“I’m not doing a damn thing, so you might as well just shut the fuck up!” I yelled a little too loud. I was starting to draw unwanted attention to myself.

“See? I told you before that you were a crazy bitch. Now other people will see too,” the voice said, taunting me.

I got up so that I could walk outside and catch some fresh air when I bumped into somebody.

“Excuse me,” he said.

I knew that voice. “That’s okay,” I replied, never lifting my head up. I moved to the side so he could pass. When he did, I hurried toward the exit. The moment I stepped foot outside, I released the breath that I didn’t even know I was holding in.

“You got to get it together. You came too far to get caught now,” I said to myself. I pulled my phone out and logged into the Where’s My Phone app, trying to see if Kaylin had turned his phone back on, but again I came up with nothing.

“Fuck this shit,” I said as I made my way toward my car.

“You know if you don’t leave that man alone, you’re going to get us killed,” the voice said this time.

“Ain’t nobody gon’ kill us, so shut the fuck up,” I said, just as I reached my car. When I got inside, I went straight for my purse. I had a bottle of pills that I usually took, but lately I hadn’t been taking them. I opened the top, removed two pills, and threw them in the back of my mouth. I pulled out the bottle of water that I had and washed them down. Five minutes later, I started to feel mellow.

Since I parked a few cars down from the one that Mimi and them were riding in, I decided to wait for them out here. That way, it would be much safer, and I didn’t have to worry about the possibility of them spotting me, because I had dark tint. I laid the seat back and prepared to wait. Lord knows that I hated to wait. I just hoped I wouldn’t be waiting too long.