Chapter 28

"Now Miss Nicki.....we can make this life enjoyable and easy....or we can make it a living hell. The choice is yours."

"PLEASE. What is this? Bye."

"Youuu keep up that attitude there....youuu...." the guy giggled and shook his head.

Nicki sat on the couch with her legs crossed, propping her head up on her hand. She rolled her eyes and continued to look outside at the view of the city.

"Ugh! Whyyyy am I even here?! Look if it's money you want, I got plenty. I just want to be back in my place!"

"Oh baby, PLS. Trust me, if I wanted the money. I wouldn't be wasting my time with you right now."

"EXCUSE ME?!"

"I didn't WANT your money, I WANTED YOU."

"For WHAT?"

"Becauseeee Onika, you are everything a man like me ever wanted in life," he smirked. "I just came to realize I really needed you in my life. And now that I have you here with me....I'm a happy man." he gave her a wide grin and caught her eyes.

She studied his face for a minute before speaking up. "So YOU'RE the one who sent these niggas to TAKE me?!"

"I know my rounds," he shrugged, looking down at his nails. "wasn't TOO hard tho."

"SO I ALMOST GOT KILLED FOR THIS?!"

"......Yeah. Your point?"

"ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!" she stood up, standing across from him.

"Hey hey now....now thanks to ME, you better be lucky none of these niggas tried to tear ya ass off in the process. But you're here now. You're safe with me." The man gave her a wide smile.

"Wait a minute. What is your name?"

"I go by the name of Lea. Short for 'Leader' since I am the front nigga in this game. Oooo. Nice to meet you."

Lea reached his hand out closer for Nicki to shake. She gave him a salty look and never moved.

"But I rather YOU to just simply call me....Bae."

"HA. Yeah. Don't think so." she rolled her eyes and walked up towards the stairs.

Lea followed close behind her into one of the rooms upstairs.

"Why are you playing hard to get?!" he laughed.

"I will NOT be in this house with you! I am NOT your wife. You CAN'T control me. LEAVE ME ALONE!"

He stormed up to Nicki, making her flinch up against a wall. He got in her face surpressing his hand against her jawline, squeezing it tightly. She whimpered at the pain and looked him in his dark eyes.

"If you EVER think about leaving me, your ASS will be dinner before I fry the rest of your body. Fuck with ME, BITCH."

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Safaree rushed to Nicki's house to search for his kept weapons in the garage. He went in and began searching through boxes all around the top shelves. He never used his guns unless someone broke in or if they were being threatened. The last time he actually carried one was when he lived in Brooklyn. Carrying one down the block just in case niggas got slick.

When he collected his 3 guns, he wwnt back into the house to stop and look around. It had been 2 months since he saw the inside of her house but then it hit Safaree how much he missed being here and how much he began missing Nicki.

Safaree made his way upstairs to her room. He glanced around and smelled her aroma in the air. He walked over to her bed and sat on it. Thoughts quickly rushed his mind, thinking why he had let the situation go this far. He laid down for a second and closed his eyes taking all of her smell in.

Safaree was sleeping when he heard a door crack open. When he heard noone walk in he shut his eyes again. 10 minutes later he heard a tiny sneeze come from the floor.

"What the...?" he sat up and saw pure darkness. He leaned over to his lamp and turned it on.

"Nic what are you doing?"

Nicki sat against the bathroom door with her eyes big and innocent. She stared at him before speaking up.

"......I uh...can't sleep..."

Safaree sighed and ran his hand over his face.

"Come here."

Nic hopped up, a little happy inside, walking to the bed and getting in under the covers with him. He laid back down and closed his eyes until he noticed Nic didn't do the same. He looked up at her, staring across the room in space and sat back up with her.

"Nic....what's wrong?"

She shook her head slowly, still staring at nothing in particular.

"You aight?"

She didn't say nothing although tears started forming in her eyes. Before they fell she turned her head to him and spoke.

"....I'm....scared."

Even though they were recently mad at each other from the big fight they had the other night, Safaree knew the only way she'd go to sleep was sleeping in the bed with him. But never had he thought this time would be any different.

"How come???"

"Do you know how dangerous this is, Safaree? I don't think you understand. I'm out here being 'Nicki Minaj' and living my life and someone could take all that away in a second."

"But you sa-"

"I mean LITERALLY. People out there are all kinds of crazy and I wouldn't know it just by walking up to a fan. It's almost like trusting the world. Trusting these everyday people that they just love you as an artist or your music and want to hug you and touch you. And I'd never know if that person was sick-obsessed with me or would do something to try and hurt me. Safaree, I'm trusting these people. With all that I do, they love. And I'm really not talking about my core, my barbz but....just the general public. How will I know that person wants a picture with me one day then the next day he does something crazy? If security thinks I'm all good cuz they're there to protect me then...ch. Cuz I have to mentally get over something like that. I be in shock all the time. And in my head after, I'm just like what would've happened if it wasn't stopped in time? It might be a joke one other time but still I'm seriously like 'Wow. Did that just happen? To me?' Like, it's crazy."

"Well if I ever see a nigga go left, you know I'll always get after that nigga. What you think I would do, just stand there?"

She laughed a little and wiped her face. "Nooooo. I'm just saying that kind of shit gets to me. And now I'm to the point where I can't trust NOBODY. Cuz with me, I'll never know what you'll do."

"Well I'm here to whoop a nigga ass anyway." he nudged her causing her to giggle.

There was a short silence.

"...You know...when you feel something bad's gonna happen?"

"Yeah, kinda. Why?"

"I have a real bad feeling..this time."

"What is it?"

Safaree caught Nicki's hand trembling, grasping the covers tightly. She trailed off into space again.

"N-Nic.." he grabbed her hands and locked their fingers, closing them securely around her hands.

Nicki loosened her fingers from under his and threw her arms around his neck. Holding him firmly and sobbing.

"I'm sorry for what I said the other day, I didn't mean it! I really didn't! I was just pissed off. I don't think you even know how much I need you right now...I'm so scared, Faree, I don't know what to do. Please...I really need you."

She pulled him down to lay their heads on the pillow as she snuggled into his chest. He noticed she had a very firm grip on his shirt. She was shaking under him still crying. Safaree had no choice but to feel for her in her time of fear. He wrapped his large arms around her tiny frame and held her. Planting kisses on her forehead.

"I'm here. I'm always here, Nic. I got you....don't worry. I got you."

Safaree opened his eyes and observed what he thought was Nicki in his arms. He looked down at the pillow and rose up, noticing he had dozed off for 20 minutes. Almost forgetting he was in her room. He ran his hands over his face and shook his head in distraught. Everything was now coming back to haunt him about not ever being up on his word to Nicki. The things he promised her back then was broken, he realized he never lived up to it. And now that it was pretty much late to go back and turn things around, SB had to find a way to save Nic before this became too late.

Before Safaree left Nicki's room, he grabbed a necklace sitting on her dresser he gave as a previous birthday present. He ran his thumb over it, observing it before putting it into his pocket and leaving.

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"UGH. I'm hungry!!!"

"Mmmmm. Me too. Wanna go fix us something, darling?"

"'SCUSE YOU?"

"There's rice in the pantry, chicken in that freezer and I think like two cans of corn. Get to work."

Nic dead faced him with the most disgusted look. [Who the FUCK is HE talking to?]

Lea continued to read the paper, still unbothered by her actions. Nicki hopped up and charged him up to snatch the newspaper out of his face.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM?"

"My problem is that your ass is in my gyatdamn face instead of in that kitchen, cooking us something."

"I'M NOT COOKING A DAMN THING."

"Well if you wanna EAT to survive in this bitch, you're gonna have to COOK."

"Who the fuck do you think I am, your slave?!"

"My future WIFE, to be exact." he looked up at her smiling.

Nicki swung her hand back to struck her nails across his face. Lea got up and grabbed her by her neck with the tightest grip, throwing her against the room. She stumbled backwards and fell onto the hard floor.

A rage rushed over Nicki as she took the lamp by her and threw it at him. He ducked in time which caused her to miss.

"You crazy ass BITCH."

Nicki's tiny feet took off towards the front door for a second attempt. When she reached it, the door was jammed and wouldn't open once more. She became more frustrated while Lea sat back and chuckled at her. She turned around with tears in her eyes.

"LET ME OUT OF THIS FUCKING HOUSE!"

"No."

"LET ME OUT!"

"NO, Onika."

"DON'T FUCKING CAWL ME THAT. I want out of this house!"

"You can't go anywhere."

"I swear to fucking GOD if you don't let me out of here, I'M gonna let YOU out."

"Ooohooo! What's THAT supposed to mean?"

Nicki glanced at the wide window to her left and looked back at him.

"Oh?"

"I'm not scared of you...." she cocked an eyebrow at him.

She went back to pulling and kicking the door to get it unjammed. Lea shook his head once again and laughed at her. Nicki wasn't giving up until she found a way to escape.

He came up behind her and whispered into her ear.

"You can NEVER leave me. Sorry baby but you're here with me, 'til death. do. we. part." Lea ran his fingers up to Nicki's neck, starting from her chest up. She froze and eyed him from the corner of her eyes. If it really meant going to desperate measures to leave this crazy man, then she was all up for it.

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Safaree had to make a short run to his apartment across town to pick up a couple more things before he flew back to New York to link up with the Vaks.

When he walked in, he checked around to make sure no one was there to surprise him again. He cautiously moved into his room to retrieve his things.

After, Safaree walked to the front door and left out. As soon as he locked the door and turned around, his favorite person came to pop up on him again.

"Well look who it is!"

Safaree froze and stared at the girl before dropping everything he had in hand.

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