Chapter 4
Naomi and Mrs Johnson are laughing and smiled, Jay walked closer to them smiling.“ Jay! It’s good you are here, I was discussing with Naomi about your childhood” his mum said and she smiled.“ Mum! Dad! I want to make an announcement” he said and his parents wonders what announcements, he wanted to make.“ Son! What announcement, do you want to make?” His mum asked.“ Naomi and I will be getting married by tomorrow, I want to announce that to the public and the preparations start now” he said and his parents were surprised especially his mother.“ Jay! Are you sure you are fine? You both barely even know each other, I know she is beautiful from the outside but what about the beauty inside, you need to know more about her before talking about to marriage” his mum said.“ There is nothing more to know about her mum, she is an orphan and I like her, I want her to get married to me by tomorrow, I want her to be my wife” he said and his mum stare at him and looked at Naomi and Naomi faced her head down, Mr Johnson walked closer to him.“ Son, I think about this and calm down, I know that your mum as always wanted you to get married and give us grandkids and I know that you are eager to call someone your wife but we should do it the right way and know the kind of person she is” his dad said.“ No dad, I want it done by tomorrow, I only need your permission and your blessings” he said and he went to the stage, his parents tried to stop him but he refused, Mrs Johnson walked closer to Naomi frowning her face.“ What did you say to my son or did to him?” She asked in anger.“ I Have said nothing to Jay” She replied and Mr John walked closer to them.“ You should not scold her, if that is what they want we should do it for them after all we can still kick her out, if she is not suit for her son” Mr Johnson said and Naomi smiled.“ I see. I have started to make your family go up side down, I will create a lot of problems to make each and any one of you hates each other then later move to the next step, Jay will only listen to me for now till I’m done with his parents then face him later”she said laughing inside of her.Jay took the microphone “ I know what I am about to say will be weird and surprising to everyone” and he announced to everyone that he will be getting married to Naomi the following day, everyone were surprised and did not expect it, they give a rand of applause to wish him good luck and congratulated him, the special guest congratulated his parents and they whispered “ that was to fast to pick a date Ml his pare at were angry while Naomi was happy because she was already ruining their reputation and tarnishing their image, Mrs Johnson was a counselor of the village, Mr Johnson called of the party and asked everyone to leave and he had asked the driver to drop Naomi home, Peter follow the driver in his car.Mrs Johnson was upset and she went to the room in anger, Mr Johnson went after her.“ You should calms down” Mr Johnson said.“ Why should I ? Can you see what is happening? Our reputation is ruining because of that foolish girl, Jay had accepted to get married to her tomorrow and he is not going back on his words, I am a counselor in this village, a popular one like that, I know that girl had some something to our son and that is why, he can’t listen to us his parents, we need to something fast” Mrs Johnson said.“ I’m sure, she use some love portion or magic on our son that is he only wants to see her” she said.“ You should take things easy, I know that by tomorrow, Jay will change his mind” Mr Johnson said.“ You should have your rest and go to sleep” Mr Johnson said and Mrs Johnson still frown.The driver dropped Naomi in her na ll tiny house where she and her parents lived, the driver left and Peter get down from his car, Naomi celebrated smiling.“ Actually, my plan worked out, they were all shocked, Jay will only listen to me from now on” she said smiling and sue hear knocked on her door, she wonders who the person can be, she open the door and she met Peter on her doorstep, she was surprised.“ Peter” she said and she looked around and thought Hay came with him.“ Where is Jay? Did Jay came with you?” She asked.“ Jay did not come with me” he said in anger.“ Humm… I see. What are have you come here to do then?” She asked.“ I have came to warn you stay away from Jay, I don’t know why you have done to him and made him not even listen to his parents” he said.“I do not understand what you are talking about, I can’t statu away from Jay because we both love each other” she said.“ Short up, you both barely know each other, things were fine before he chose, I hope you don’t come tomorrow for the wedding or else, I will deal with you and make the wedding not to hold”he said in anger and he left, Naomi was upset and she shut her door.“ Why am I even upset? I shouldn’t be,empty threat that is, he can’t do anything and if I see, he will blocked my way then I will deal with him personally, I will show him that I am a serpent by tomorrow I will be in the Johnson’s house as bride but Mr Johnson will have to fall sick, I will make lose their respect, I need a portion to get started with Mr Johnson” she said and she transformed into a serpent and she went to the witch.Chapter 5Naomi got the cave the witch always stay, and she entered the cave.“ What have you come here to do Naomi?”The witch asked and Naomi transformed into a half human and a half serpent.“ I need your help” she said.“ What kind of a help do you need?” The witch asked.“ I need you to make me a portion that will makeMr Johnson suffer before his death, I want to make the Johnson Family lose everything they have and I will be only satisfied when they are all died” she said and she smiled.“ I can’t help you with Naomi, you have to stop this, you are not supposed to be Jay’s doom but his destiny” the witch said.“ What do you know about destiny? You know nothing after all you are not my parents” she said.“ I may not be your parents but I am like a guiding to you since I have know where you came from” the witch said.“ Short up if you can’t help me, I will just go somewhere else, Witches are always wicked. Why is your different?”she asked in anger.“ There are good witches and I
Naomi The blood was soaking through the denim covering my thigh, each step dragging the coarse material against the puncture wound as I tried to remember the last time I had a tetanus booster. The ragged edge of the scaffolding that had snagged me had been rusty as fuck, and I wasn’t excited about the prospect of Lockjaw. Though, objectively, that condition would make it a hell of a lot easier to keep my mouth shut around my coworkers. I let out a sigh, seeing their cars parked down the street, knowing I was going to catch endless shit about getting hurt on the job. As if they never got roughed up. But it was different to them. Because I was a woman. Gritting my teeth, I pulled open the door to the private investigation office I’d been stubbornly working at for years, despite the endless flack the men gave me as they tried to drive me out the door of my own accord since they never had a legitimate reason to fire me. The office looked different from the wrong side of morning.
Like the one he was shooting me right then. Dressed in his usual black jeans and a black button-up, he had a bit of a professional appearance. But the skin that peeked out from his clothes was covered in tattoos. Including the backs of his hands. One had a skull. The other had a bold “AC” inked into it. For the Jay Johnson.That he ran. After breaking away from a cartel he’d grown up in while America. He smelled good, too. Kinda spicy, but not overwhelmingly so. Maybe just soap. Or very lightly applied cologne. “Hey, mama,” he said, giving me that smirk I’d mentioned. Gaze moving down, I saw he’d brought one of his mutts with him. A was a big fan of dogs. Lots and lots of pitbulls. Which, objectively, were probably a good idea when you had a massive, sprawling property that you couldn’t have a guard on every inch of. “You can’t bring your dog in here,” I told him, bringing my attention back to my leg, ripping the material wider, since they were trash now anyway. I didn’t ev
What can I say? People tended not to like us snooping around in their business. We got scratched up a lot. “Come on, Mr. Johnson ,” Peter said, turning to lead him toward the back as I dropped back down at my desk. “Val, sit,” A said to the dog, dropping his leash and leaving the dog a few feet from my desk. “Stay,” he added, tone both commanding and kind somehow at the same time. When I glanced up, A was standing in front of my desk, his dark gaze on me. “The fuck you let them talk to you like that for, mama?” he asked, knocking his knuckles on my desk, then turning and swaggering away. Leaving me with my anger and embarrassment, and a dog that was looking at me from all of three feet away. “I don’t like dogs,” I told Val, whose tan ears perked up at being spoken to, but stayed put. “It’s nothing personal. I don’t really… get the whole… animal-loving thing,” I admitted. “Christ, I’m talking to a dog,” I mumbled to myself as I got some triple antibiotic on a q-tip and swiped it
Twenty minutes later, I’d drafted and email and sent the pictures to the wife of the CEO, a woman who didn’t need this level of stress when she was already trying to raise four kids on her own without a nanny because her husband claimed it was “her job.” But it was what her lawyer sister said she needed. Proof. Undeniable proof. Because he had the access to the money, which meant he would throw a lot of it toward fighting her about alimony and custody and even child support. Meanwhile, the woman had worked her ass off to support him when he was building his business. It was a case that would end up being pretty high profile, and I was going to pay attention to the progress, rooting for the scorned wife all the way. Then the door was opening, and the muffled male voices spilled out and filled the small room, making Val’s tail waggle furiously, but he stayed where he’d been told to as his owner approached. “We will get started on the case immediately,” Peter said, all ass-kissy whe
I didn’t like losing that kind of crazy on this side of the border, but if there was a situation going on down there, he was someone who was capable of… sending a message. There was no room for subtle when it came to cartel warfare. Shit was rough between syndicates. Literal gunfights in broad daylight in the streets. That had been the life I’d grown up in. And because there wasn’t a whole fuckuva lot of options to get out of the debilitating poverty I’d been born into, I’d gotten myself wrapped up in that world before I was even in middle school. That life makes you hard, and it does it fast. I hadn’t so much as blinked at the idea of torture since I got my twelve-year molars in. “I’ll get him the message,” Marco said, nodding. “You heading out?” he asked when I reached for my keys. Here is where never letting anyone close enough to you to truly know your tells came in handy. Because I had to lie right to his face. “Val’s gotta hit the vet. Got something going on with his sto
A take-no-prisoners, badass woman who never let anyone even look at her sideways… let her coworkers talk to her like absolute shit. The fuck was that about? I had no idea, and then I was being ushered into the back with the men while Naomi sat in the front, watching my dog like he was planning on charging her or something. I sat there, saying very little, as the Peter guy prattled on and on and fucking on about their experience andAnd, at the end of it, I came to the conclusion that I didn’t trust a damn one of them to handle my shit. Hope, though? With her biker daddy and her biker uncles and her aunts that did all sorts of illegal shit? She could be trusted. Besides, it was funny as fuck to watch those men’s faces fall when I demanded it be Hope. If there was one thing I’d learned in life, it was that it was satisfying as hell to take a person of power down a peg or two. With that, I walked out, a smile tugging at my lips as I walked Val down the street with me to order som
“Nah, man, he spent the morning cleaning up puke and shit,” Manny said, walking up behind Luis with an even more stacked plate. “I wouldn’t be hungry either.” Luis’s brows pinched as he glanced over toward where Val was sitting at the front window, watching the grounds, likely itching to get out there with his friends. But the dogs were on schedules. Some were in the house a good chunk of the day, but outside all night. Others had the opposite. I didn’t believe in having dogs living outside, not even for protection, but some of them—like Val—seemed to live for their guardMy gaze kept drifting toward the clock, watching the hours tick away, getting more and more concerned that I hadn’t heard from that PI place. Were they really going to shoot themselves in the foot by not letting Hope take on the case? I mean, they got paid whether she solved the fucking case or not. Though, yeah, I had no doubts that she was capable of sussing shit out. If for no other reason than spite. Spite