Charmed By A Steel City Hustler

Adonis:

Three Hours Later.

"This is bullshit! I have nothing to do with any gun deals or those thugs. Mark my words, you illegal aliens will be deported so fucking fast that...Agh!"

I was hit in the forehead with a gun, and blood immediately leaked from my forehead. Lola and I were dragged from the apartment. Thrown into the same cramped smelly trunk of a beat-up Ford Taurus. The entire ride Lola was praying to the Lord to protect us. That shit would have been comical if it were not for our life or death situation.

This day was supposed to be a show and tell for Lois and Bash. I wanted to watch her squirm under the weight of her own actions. I should have kept my ass at the office and let Lola discover them naked alone. I could have had some plausible deniability.

"Shut up Donnie! You are going to get us killed. How are you and Bash related and I didn't know? You are just full of fucking secrets."

"No, your husband and that other low life thug cousin of mine are going to get us killed."

"Tuh! They are both your cousins. I can't believe all this time I thought that you were so different."

"Hello pot this is the kettle, nice to meet you. Lola, drop the act. There is no one around that gives a damn about us. You're pissed that Lois is better at being a whore than you."

Lola:

"Excuse you?"

I could not believe what the fuck Adonis had just said to me. Even worse, I couldn't believe that he took me on a dummy mission to bust my husband and sister. How the hell did I not see any of this coming? Lois never gave off a hoe vibe, or that she even looked at Bash sexually.

Yes, they had conversations that were above my intelligence level, but so what? Lois was the perfect daughter and would never willingly hurt me. That was the difference between us, she had a conscience where I did not.

"Lola, you have been jealous of Lois for years and it killed you to find out that I was her fiancé eight years ago."

I went to speak but no words came out. Adonis was right, that night had haunted me for so long after the initial shock.

"I'm coming, damn, stop banging on my door like that!"

I said as I came down the hallway of my apartment. I was in my room practicing braids on a mannequin head. I was tired of having clients come to me shampooed and braided for a quick weave or sew-in.

I opened my front door to my little sister with the biggest grin on her face. Lois knocked me to the side, coming in bouncing around. I walked over to the couch and watched her for a minute or two, then spoke. "So, have you finally learned how to swallow sister?"

I said, and her smile faded into a frown, and I began to laugh. I had to burst her bubble some way. She had interrupted my practice and was not saying shit.

"Shut up Lala! You know what? I need to learn since I am getting married! AAHHH!"

I dropped my jaw in astonishment and yelled out with her. This was great news. Marriage had always been on both our minds since we graduated high school. Lois was old fashioned and wanted the white picket fence with kids, dog and a station wagon.

I wanted a rich husband that attended social events and traveled the world. Lois sat down and began telling me the story of how her new fiancé proposed. I remember her dating some up tight stiff a few months ago. She never spoke on her boyfriends unless it was serious.

"Has daddy met him yet?" I asked because Leo Jennings had final say over everything it seemed.

"Yes, we all had dinner a few weeks ago. Daddy knows his father thorough some charity foundation. Anywho, sister, we can break out those old binders full of wedding ideas and start planning." "Wait a minute dinner? I had no idea."

I felt a bit slighted that my sister, and her future husband had a family dinner with our dad. I was not invited, and not given the information. Lois again dropped her signature grin.

"Oh, Lala mom wasn't there either. Daddy just wanted it to be the three of us. He said that he told you so."

I put my tongue to my cheek to prevent my true thoughts from coming out. My dad once again excluded me from an important event. Leo always did that shit all because I refused to finish college.

I was so over being the black sheep. This was not Lois' fault, and I was not going to hold her accountable for it. She still held a worried look. I plastered a fake smile on to appease her.

"Well, let me see the ring, and can I know what my future brother-in-law's name is?"

Lois extended her left hand to me, and I almost passed out. The ring was exquisite and somehow familiar to me. I felt like I had seen it somewhere before. Lois was talking a mile a minute but all I could understand was the last three words that came out of her mouth.

"Mrs. Lois Paul."

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"Paul?"

"Yes, my fiancé is Adonis Paul, attorney at law. Haha, I love saying that. He works for that huge firm downtown. I am thinking about going to work there when I graduate to get some experience. And he has tons of co-workers we could probably fix you up with."

Lois continued to ramble on, and I had stood up and went to my cell phone. I had been dating Donnie Paul for a year now. He was an attorney at a huge law firm downtown. He came from money and wasn't shy about that.

We had been out to some of the best restaurants and hotels in the city. He had never taken me to his place because of his image as he always said. What the fuck was going on here? I sent a text message to him requesting to meet immediately.

"Lala, you have barely said two words. What are you thinking up in that big brain of yours?"

I looked to my sister and thought this was a pivotal moment in time. I could ruin her happy occasion with a scary truth or remain silent. My little sister was not evil, she just always got what she wanted out of life.

I went to speak when my phone went off, it was Donnie. I held my hand up to her and excused myself to my bedroom. I secured the door behind me and went off.

"You, slimy son of a bitch! You have been cheating on me with my baby sister and you proposed to her! I picked out that ring Donnie!"

"Calm down Lola, that mouth is a prime reason why you were never my girl in the first place. We were having fun this past year and hey it was magical, but times change. I am looking further down my career path, and baby you don't have political written all over that fine body of yours. I need a woman with brains to match her beauty and who will work at my side."

"Donnie what are you saying? I am building a clientele from my apartment. I pay my own bills."

"Lola, baby, don't take this personal. This is business sweetheart, and you will not help me become the mayor or a future senator, that's just facts. I had no idea Lois was your sister until I saw a photo of you two in her home. She rarely spoke on a sibling."

"Damn it, Donnie! We look alike, don't give me that you didn't know shit!"

"Language Lola. Look, if you still want to screw around until I tie the knot, I'm cool with that, otherwise this will be our last private chat. Aye sis."

"And furthermore, I demand-"

"Shut the fuck up mane! Yawl making my head hurt. Gag that fool, he acts like a bitch. I doubt that fool Bash dead, so call our contact at the hospital. This shit ends in the next forty-eight hours."

The leader of the group spoke and then walked out of the room. I had been lost in my own thoughts while Donnie continued to run his mouth. I was looking around the room for any weapons that we could use. Not a damn thing. There were only four guys and none of them were very large. They all had at least one gun on them.

Even if we did somehow get free, we would be shot dead on the spot. Bash always told me that in situations like this, death was a high probability for one main reason. The kidnappers showed you their faces and did not care to conceal your eyes from your surroundings.

I did not want to die here and miss the chance to get my revenge on Bash and Lois. The third gunman had secured the duct tape over Donnie's mouth, and he was still mumbling beneath it. How the hell did I ever fall for such a wimp? The zip tie on my wrist was a bit loose and I could probably get it undone. Those idiots did not bind my legs to the chair. They probably figured I would cooperate. Dead ass wrong, I was not the prima donna that my sister was. Bash had instilled some survivor skills in me.

I continued to wriggle my fingers and the friction was cutting into my skin. I just focused on getting free and what would happen to me if I did nothing. Right now, I was happy as hell that I had the pointed false nails on, they were sharp and a great help.

"Yes!"

I whisper screamed to myself as my right hand was free and I used it to get my left one loose. I flung the ties to the ground and went to pull the tape from Donnie's mouth. There was slobber all on it, so damn nasty.

"We gotta get out of here before these men kill us."

"Lola you are being a bit dramatic, this is a damn shit show. Bash needs to get his ass here and stop screwing my wife."

The sheer stupidity of his comment alone had me wanting to leave his ass behind. Donnie thought this was a game that thugs play. We were in a life-or-death situation, and he was bitching about sex. I looked around again for something that I could use to defend myself.

Over in the far-off corner I saw a metal pole lying on the floor. I walked over to grab it and was a bit heavy, perfect. One hit to a body part and the person was going down.

"That is the problem with you hoes! Never can stay the fuck still!"

I turned around and the goon who initially grabbed me in Bash's apartment was standing with a gun in hand. Fuck! There was no way that I was dying in this dingy ass room with all the knowledge that I had gotten today. I looked to the pipe in my hand and threw caution to the wind.

"You bastards will not turn me into a weak, broken woman. I will fight for my life, aah!"

I screamed out running toward the gunman and I heard two shots go off, then total darkness took me.