A Hustler's Promise by Chanel Jackie

Author:Chanel, Jackie [Chanel, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: azw, epub
Publisher: Bold as Love Media
Published: 2012-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Something was off. The sun hadn’t completely set but Rickie, Bobbie, and their little friends weren’t outside playing. Their bikes weren’t even sitting on the stoop. Something had happened.

Rayshawn walked into the townhouse. He tossed his keys on the flower stand by the front door and walked into the living room. Autumn was sitting on the sofa with Rickie and Bobbie on her lap. All three girls were crying. The two little girls hopped off Autumn’s lap and ran over to Rayshawn. He picked them both up and walked over to the couch.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s Jay-Jay,” Autumn said but her voice was so low that Rayshawn could barely hear her.

“What?”

“Jay-Jay’s at Belleview, Rayshawn. It doesn’t look good.”

All of the blood running through Rayshawn’s body went cold. What the hell was Jaicyn doing at the hospital? Better yet, why?

“What happened to Jaicyn?” Rayshawn practically yelled.

Autumn hesitated to open her mouth, partly because she didn’t have a lot of information but mainly, the information she did have was too horrific to tell.

“Autumn, don’t play me,” Rayshawn said. “What happened to Jaicyn?”

“I don’t really know, Rayshawn,” Autumn cried. “Something really bad happened to her over on the west side. Her grandmother called an hour ago and told Angelina to meet her at Belleview. I haven’t heard anything else yet.”

Rayshawn’s fingers flew over the buttons on his cell while he typed a message to Little Man. His lungs struggled to take in air as he waited for the “on my way” text from his sidekick. It was almost impossible for him to keep his cool in front of Jaicyn’s sisters. Something had happened to his girl! Nothing should ever happen to Jaicyn in Washington Heights!

A long fifteen minutes later Rayshawn heard Little Man’s Explorer pull in front of the apartment building. He ran outside, telling Autumn that he would call her as soon as he found out what happened to his girlfriend.

At the Emergency Room entrance of Belleview Hospital, Angelina was standing outside smoking a cigarette when Little Man and Rayshawn pulled up. Rayshawn had the passenger door open and was halfway out of the car before Little Man had a chance to pull to a complete stop.

“What happened? Where’s Jaicyn?” Rayshawn asked Angelina.

“She’s in her room with her grandmother,” Angelina answered.

“What happened to her?”

Angelina took a deep drag of her cigarette. It was hard to hear the details from Juanita after Angelina had gotten a look at Jaicyn’s battered and bruised body. She hadn’t heard much of what Juanita and the doctor was explaining to her.

“I don’t know all of the details, Rayshawn. But some guys beat up Jaicyn and I think Juanita said she might have been raped.”

“What the fuck are you saying? That’s your damn daughter and all you can say is that you think she got beat up and raped?” Rayshawn yelled at Angelina. “Where’s Juanita?”

“She’s up there with Jaicyn. Room 403.”

Rayshawn and Little Man went into the hospital and impatiently rode the elevator to the fourth floor. Rayshawn’s hands were shaking.

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