Chapter 31

Just when these 3 thought they were so close to getting to Nicki in the nick of time, there was a sudden alteration in their mission.

They encountered problems getting to Canada right off the back.

1. Safaree wanted to bring his glocks with him but knew it was prohibited on a flight.

2. The next flight to Vancouver was delayed until the next day.

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"Nicki."

Lea leaned back in his office chair and played with an office toy that sat upon his desk. The room was silent. Nic was sitting in a chair near a corner of the room with her back turned to him.

He looked up at her when he realized she didn't speak right away. Lea became quiet when he caught a weird vibe that something strange was going on. A ring to his phone pulled him out of his thoughts.

"Yo."

"Nigga have you spoke to my sister?"

He thought for a minute before speaking up again.

"Mmmm Nah. Why? Wassup?"

"Mannn...she ain't been in flesh since we sent her ass to Australia."

"Where the fuck she go?"

"Iono man! I've been tryna reach her for the longest. And-"

"Wait wait wait wait....." Something finally clicked in his head as he thought about it. "If she....caught him...and we got this one....where the fuck is HE?"

Nic intensely eavesdropped on his conversation, having an idea of who he was talking about to whomever on the phone. Her eyes grew piecing the conversation together.

"No. Hell no. Let me call E and see if he knows something...."

"Yeah. & call me back."

Nic adjusted on the couch and bit at the corner of the lips. Lea went to his computer and begin pulling up numerous pages of information and begin analyzing it. The room became silent again.

Nicki had a plan. She really didn't think second about it but wanted to try something. Hopefully it would distract him so she could see what he was doing.

[You got this Nic...]

She slowly rose off the couch and made her way to his desk. Lea caught her eyes lurking behind him. He stopped and turned around in his chair.

"May I help you?"

Nicki poked her lip out, looking down at the little thingamajigs on his desk.

He soften his face when he saw her cute little innocence.

"I'm bored..." Nic pouted.

"Well...you wanna go do something for me, baby?"

She forced a smile like she was interested and waited for his response.

"Run to the basement and grab my device from the box by the stairs. Please."

Nicki's smile faded away as she hoped to see what he was up to instead of being avoided by him and his work. She rolled her eyes and made her way out of the office.

While she made a long trip to the basement, Lea hurriedly went back to the documents on his computer and pulled up some information that would bring him to his next big clever plan.

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"I want to apologize for not contacting you right away about this....I sorta chose not to only because of your reaction. I really didn't wanna be the one to break it to you and the Barbz..."

"No need to apologize, Safaree. I'm holding on in there with God. He knows her strength. I know she's fine. You know, prayer sure does work."

"It sure does."

"I want you to help us fight with the power of prayer. I'm not as worried anymore because I know that my baby is a fighter. And she won't give up. Where ever she is, God is shielding her. She'll be back....I know she will..."

Safaree's heart wrenched and ached for Nicki's mother. He was beyond amazed at how strongly she held her own. She had the confidence he'd wish he had. As long as she understood the situation, he was less frantic about hearing and fearing her emotions.

"Right now...uhh...I'm getting with some people to help get her back..."

"Now Safaree, I don't want you going to drastic measures to get my baby. Anything could go wrong and someone can get hurt. PLEASE be careful out there, son."

He slightly smiled at her calling him 'son'. "Yes ma'am. I'm doing my best. Tell the family she's just fine and they'll see her soon. I'll talk to you later."

"Alright, sweetheart. Remember to pray. Take care."

"I will. And you too. Bye."

"Buh-Bye."

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Nicki slowly trailed down into the dark basement by herself. It was cold and had a gross smell to it. Her hand flew right up to her face the moment the odor hit her way. Once she hit the bottom of the stairs she carfully walked around to find the light. As Nicki felt her way around the basement, she noticed a lot of unusual things that surrounded her.

"Oh my god. Oh my god." She slightly panicked as she finally found the light in the corner of the basement. When she turned back around to glance around the room, her eyes nearly fell out of her head when she found what was before her.

"Ayo L, what if she find all this shit down here?" The guy joked.

"She won't."

"Oh yes she will."

"Oh?"

"And If she does?"

"So."

"SO? Don'tchu know she could expose all the shit down here?! Man yo-"

"She WON'T."

"How the fuck YOU know she won't, though?"

Nicki backed up against a table that contained a very tall rifle that touched her back. She jumped and turned to find the gun now in front of her face.

"Oh my...."

Lea lead his eyes to the rifle sitting on the table behind the guy. He raised his eyebrow and smirked.

"Oho SHIT." The guy threw his fist over his mouth in awe at the big rifle. "Damn, my nigga you gon go out like THAT?"

"Snitches don't reside HERE."

"So you really think she's gonna hold off this long in this house huh?"

"Oh I KNOW for a fact. Please."

The guy shook his head and continued to fidget around with the sacred things his boss kept in the basement.

"Boyyyy, I can't wait til we see that nigga face to face! That nigga's body gon be carried out in a trash bag after we get after him...."

The guy went to a picture sitting on a desk against the wall.

Nicki slowly picked up the picture and observed it thoroughly. It didn't make a lot of sense to her, as she looked over to what appeared to be a younger Lea and another guy standing next to him, resembling his features.

"Who is this....?" she said to herself.

Nicki pulled the picture closer, noticing the familiar necklace emblem around the man and Lea's neck. She twisted her face up in confusion, looking over the picture once more.

"Damn man...how long has it been?"

Lea gazed at the picture in the guy's hand from a distance, leaning against the table. "I believe, 7 years ago."

"Wow. Still can't believe he gone, man...."

[His brother, maybe?] She thought.

Nicki sat the picture down and moved around to see more pictures along the wall. There were more pictures of Lea and the guy, and more dudes dressed in all black.

"Ohhhhh my god...." She put her hand over her chest.

They all wore the same necklace also, which now creeped Nicki out. It was pretty clear now that this was indeed, the gang that had been after her for the past 3 months. It was becoming too real for her to realize what was happening around her. These people had been stalking her for months and she never knew.

She had concluded with Safaree that they must've wanted something, but they didn't know what. So if it wasn't money, then what could it possibly be? Nicki stopped and glanced around the basement again to spot what Lea had asked for so she could bring it with her. There were several boxes sitting near the stairs of the basement that had several devices in it. Before she made her way over to them, she turned her direction back to the pictures. One picture in particular caught her eye as she halted and almost knocked over things on the desk. A sharp nerve jolted through her skin when she recognized it.

"No....fucking............way......" She reached out slowly and grabbed it off the wall.

To her surprise, it was a framed picture of her and Safaree. In fact, the SAME EXACT picture that went missing the morning Nicki couldn't find it in her office. Her body began tensing up as she fought back tears.

"What the fuck! He's been in our house. ....He's been in our...." Nicki took the picture and darted right up the stairs back to the office.

On her way down the hall, she ran right into Lea and fell, dropping the frame.

"Whoa whoa whoa....slow down there. What's the problem?" He pulled her up off the floor.

Nicki scrambled to get up and remove his hands off of her. She turned to pick up the now cracked picture. "WHERE DID THIS COME FROM? HUH?! WHERE DID YOU FUCKING GET THIS?!"

He calmly looked at her and pushed his shoulders up in confusion. "Well where else would I get it?"

"YOU BEEN IN MY HOUSE?!"

"Yeah? So?"

"SO?!?! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!"

"You can have it back if you want. I was just gonna cut the shit and give you that nigga's face back anyway." He pushed pass her and kept walking.

"So THAT'S what this is about huh?" She turned around looking at him crazy.

"What?"

"YOU'RE JEALOUS OF SAFAREE!"

He spun around in quickness. "IS THAT SO?"

"YES! You wanted me for yourself! Selfish ASSHOLE." Nic spat at him, trying to get all in his face.

He looked down at her small frame and almost giggled to her face. "Hmph. Maybe." Lea turned around and headed towards the basement himself.

Nic's jaw dropped as she followed after him back down into the basement. "So NOW I'm here and it's going on 2 WEEKS! WHAT'S THE CATCH???"

Lea ignored her and went to fetch the device he was looking for. Before he headed back upstairs, Nicki stopped him in his tracks.

"WAIT! Aren't you gonna explain to me what all of this means?" She threw her arms up pointing around the room at the infinity symbol labeled everywhere. He simply gave her an evil glare and continued upstairs.

"Wha-" She scurried after him once more and followed him back into the office.

"You're GONNA tell me what this shit means....."

He continued to ignore her.

"There-Ther-Theres's a reason you're doing all of this, isn't it? TELL ME!"

Before he spoke up, he went back to using the device to his computer and fixing things up. A map popped up on his screen. Then minutes later there was a flashing blue light slowly moving on a line. A smirk plastered across his face as he pulled out his cell phone to dial a number.

"ANSWER ME!"

Lea turned to look at Nicki hovering over his desk waiting for a response. "........Ooooooh look, it's our lucky day! Guess who's coming to visit......" As he laughed, he turned the screen to her so she could see. Nic was confused. She didn't really know who he was referring to or who was even coming but she felt a bad vibe about it.

"What?" She said under her breath.

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OH and well problem number...3....

Safaree, Chassidy and Drake made it to a local Dennys near the airport to wait and sit in over night.

They all ate and started their plan to out-smart Lea and rescue Nicki.

"This shit ain't gon work if I cant get my shit up there."

"Then how the fuck are we supposed to get up there in time, Safaree? We leave in 7 hours."

"Shit I'll get that G5 to take us up there. It'll be in my bags."

"You ain't gon solve shit with tryna dome this nigga."

"SAYS WHO?"

Drake shook his head and groomed his beard. "You think you a real ass nigga with some GUNS but just really all talk to me."

SB hopped up from the table and got all in Drake's face.

"Not this shit again....." Chassidy layed her head down on the table.

"I'm really fuckin tired of yo slick comments nigga. GET THE FUCK UP."

Drake hopped and got in his face with a calm look.

"You wanna run that by me again, playboi?"

"All TALK, No B-"

Before Drake could finish his sentence a full blown fist came across his jaw in one quick move. He hit the floor, as SB watched him fall. Chassidy came up behind SB and pulled him away from Drake.

"NO!!! I can't believe yall doing this shit in PUBLIC! WE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE! COME ON." She pushed Safaree towards the door, before they caused a scene in the restraunt. People and workers were looking in their direction, trying to see what was going on.

"AUBREY GET YO ASS UP AND COME ON BEFORE YOU GET LEFT." Chassidy gave no fucks in helping him up. She called after him, running out after SB and into the car.

"Hurry up 'fore they call the cops on our asses!!!!"

Drake came out wiping the blood off his lip and getting into the backseat. They paid him no mind at this point.

Suddenly, Chassidy's phone rung as she tried to hurry and answer it. Just her luck when she didn't check to see who was calling before she answered.

"Yeah."

"Wanted to come see me about something?"

Her heart jumped when she heard a deep familiar voice on the other line.

"Uh...uh..uh..." Her eyes grew wide.

"Oh no no. It's fine. Yeah, Eric already told me you were on your way. But now I see you're bringing some family with you huh?"

Chassidy worriedly looked over at SB while he was driving. He glanced between her and the road. "What? What happened? Who is that?"

"Ohhhh so I was right?" Lea said as he heard Safaree's voice in the background.

"Um..." Chassidy was still speechless.

"Yeah. Thought you was slick, Chas? You thought I wouldn't find out huh?"

"Lea, I can explain-"

Safaree whipped his head to her when she said his name.

[Lea?] He was confused.

"Nooo nooo, I'd like to meet your new friends," he smiled. "oh and while you're at it....."

"Y-Yeah?" She nervously said.

"Put me on speaker would you, please?"

She did as she was told, now that Safaree and Drake could here the familiar voice.

"I want 60 thousand dollars in the palm of my hands when you get here or i'll be burying bodies underneath my fucking wooden floor."

"YOU BET NOT PUTCHO HANDS ON HER."

"SB, chill." Chassidy whispered. She was scared straight at this point, not knowing how Lea was going about this.

Lea ignored Safaree and went back to talking to Chas. "Oh. And If yo boy tries to pull that 'got another thing coming for you' shit.....he betta rethink his contrivance before he sees me in FLESH."

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