Magic Touch by Treasure Hernandez

Author:Treasure Hernandez [Hernandez, Treasure]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-09-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Out in the World

Simmy couldn’t stop crying as she sat across from Kyan in the Rikers Island visit room, almost a week to the day after his arrest. She had found out that twelve of Kyan’s people had been arrested the same day he was picked up. She couldn’t care less about them, though. All she cared about was Kyan.

He put his hands on top of hers for the few seconds of physical contact allowed by the correction officers. “Shh. Don’t cry, baby. It’s all going to work out. Just trust me on this,” Kyan comforted her, smiling although Simmy could see that it was a struggle.

She shook her head in despair. “I don’t know. I just don’t know. It’s all over the newspapers, Kyan,” Simmy cried, looking across the table at him. He averted his eyes like it was too hard to look at her.

“They’re saying it’s like some big conspiracy you’re caught up in and that people were locked up in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Like, twenty other people. They wrote something about RICO charges and criminal enterprises and black mafia groups. They said it was like some big drug network and that everybody is looking at a lot of time,” Simmy said, her voice rising and falling with grief.

Kyan sighed. “Don’t believe all that, Simone. I’ma be a’ight. They putting all that stuff out there in the media trying to scare people into snitching. That’s all a mind game being played by the cops using the papers. That shit ain’t gonna work. Our team is pretty solid. We have a plan for if this shit ever happened. Plus, we ain’t do shit,” Kyan said firmly. He said the end of his sentence a little louder hoping that the undercover officers the Department of Corrections usually planted in the visit rooms to listen in on inmates would hear his words, “We ain’t do shit.”

“What about a lawyer? Money? Your place? Do you need—”

Kyan put his hand up and smiled again. “Listen, baby. Didn’t I just say for you to trust me? I haven’t ever led you wrong. I got this. I’m good on all those fronts. I got people taking care of all of that. I want you to go see my man, the paper I gave you. He got it all covered.” Kyan nodded toward her bag where she’d dropped his note.

Understanding washed over Simmy’s expression. She wiped her tears away. She felt a little better when Kyan said he had people taking care of everything. She wished Jayla had been as prepared as Kyan was.

“My dude got you for a little bit. I want you to take what he gives you. Continue going to school, and make something good out of that beautiful mind of yours,” Kyan said. “Plus, I’ma be home in a flash to pick up right where we left off.”

Simmy started crying again. She couldn’t even speak. She could see that he was trying to hold on to his optimism but, to her, something about his words and his tone seemed so final.

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