CHAPTER FOUR
Jacob
You’re a Billion Dollar Man
“Drive me home,” I said to Henry, as I plunked down into the backseat of my car. I was so upset, I knew I couldn’t stay at that hospital any longer. I would have ended up breaking Montie to pieces. Who does he think he is to tell me I can’t see my woman?
Compounding his pesky antics was the way Ms. Clara looked at me after I hit him. I didn’t like that she had to meet me under these circumstances any more than she did, but she could have at least heard me out.
“Sir, are you sure you want to go in here?” Henry asked as he pulled into my driveway. There was crime scene tape everywhere and my once immaculate lawn looked like a certified war zone. Even my house looked eerie. I had a good mind to go back to Grady Memorial and finish Montie off, and then head over to Justine’s hospital next.
“No, take me to the nearest hotel,” I ordered once I saw the crime scene tape. If I went in and saw an ounce of Destiny’s blood splattered in that house, it would only cause my rage to boil over.
“Dad,” I said, after dialing my father’s number. I was in route to the hotel and had to talk to the old man. He was the only person I trusted to help reel me in from the murderous feeling growing in my heart.
“What’s going on, Son?”
“Nothing good, Dad,” I said deeply inhaling and exhaling the fresh wind blowing into my car window. ?
??Justine just came to my house in Atlanta and attacked my girlfriend.”
“Justine who?”
“Our Justine, Dad.”
“She did what?”
“You heard me right. She came all the way to Atlanta and attacked my girlfriend at gunpoint. Now, Destiny is in the hospital in critical condition and her family is pissed at me and won’t let me see her.”
“Hold on. I know you’re not telling me our sweet little Justine tried to kill someone,” Dad said.
“She didn’t try to kill just anyone. It was my girlfriend.”
“That just can’t be right. It’s not even in her nature to do something like that. She’s always been so nice and respectful,” Dad said, seeming unable to wrap his mind around what I was telling him.
“Well, she’s not playing nice and respectful now. What she did was premeditated, calculated and evil. I’m so angry with Justine! We better not ever cross paths again,” I barked.
“Son, first of all you’re going to calm down and let the proper authorities handle everything. Tell me what happened?”
“Someone called my house and said Justine was at Calvary General after having attempted suicide. They told me she wasn’t doing well. I tried calling her parents, but didn’t get an answer.”
“Why didn’t you call me?” Dad asked.
“After her parents didn’t answer and I got the call from the hospital, I jumped on the jet. I meant to call you on the plane, but Justine called before I had the chance to. She told me she was at my house about to kill Destiny.”
“This is crazy!” Dad said.
“That’s why I’m so fucking upset. I left my girlfriend…no, actually my fiancée, to be by Justine’s side, and she calls me with this shit!”
“If Justine was at Calvary General, how did she get to Atlanta to attack Destiny?” Dad asked perplexed.
“That’s just it. She was never in the hospital. She was in Atlanta, but someone from that hospital called me with that story.”
“Son, this is bad…very bad. Is Destiny okay? Is that her name?”
“Yes, and I don’t know how she’s doing. I don’t like not knowing,” I said.
“So she is your fiancée?”