Real Riders Never Die 3 (15 page)

“J
acko, get her before she falls,” Kia screamed as Alice stood on the sofa with her arms in the air.

He was seated on the floor in front of the sofa, so he reached behind him and grabbed her. She laughed and squealed with joy as he tickled her little stomach.

“She’s ticklish.” Izzy smiled at Alice.

“You used to be the same way,” Kerry told her.

They were all sitting in Kia and Jacko’s living room watching TV. They had been to church and now they were just waiting for the food to get done. Kerry and Izzy had been going to church faithfully every Sunday since she’d been released from rehab. So when she asked Jacko would he, Kia, and baby Alice to come to her baptism, they readily agreed. It felt good to see her getting her life on track.

“What time is y’all mama and daddy getting here?” Kerry teased them.

Buck and Deon being together had been the biggest joke for the last couple of months. Kia nor Jacko found any of it to be funny, but everyone else did.

“My daddy just text me and said they’re outside.” Kia scooted off the sofa the best she could.

“Let me help you, big mama.” Jacko pulled her the rest of the way.

“Get your hands off of me.” Kia smacked his hands away.

She was almost nine months pregnant with their second child. They would be welcoming a son in another few weeks, making Jackson Jr. and Alice only eighteen months apart. They hadn’t wasted any time after Alice was born. Jacko slapped her butt as she wobbled to the door. When she opened it, she screamed and covered her mouth.

“What are y’all doing here?”

Taryn and Demoto walked in with Azmera and Ayo in tow.

“We came to surprise Kerry, but our flight got in late.” Taryn grabbed Kia in a hug.

“Why y’all didn’t tell me y’all was coming?” Kia was still surprised.

She kissed Azmera, who was in Demoto’s arms, before giving him a hug. She didn’t get a chance to hug Ayo because he was already on the floor playing with Izzy.

“Bitch, is that baby making you go deaf? Didn’t I just say it was a surprise?” Taryn kissed Kerry who had just stood up to hug her.

“I’m just happy, that’s all.” Kia sat back down on the sofa.

“Well, be mad with your husband because I told that nigga.” Demoto pulled the gold bracelet on Azmera’s wrist out of her mouth.

Kia looked at Jacko.

“Surprise, baby.”

She threw a pillow at him just as the doorbell rang again. Everyone had already gotten settled in their seats, so they all looked around at each other to see who was going to get the door. When nobody moved, they all laughed.

“Come in,” Jacko yelled.

In walked Buck and Deon with Theresa behind them. Once everyone got their greetings out of the way, the women went into the kitchen while the men sat in the living room with the kids watching TV.

“So how’s Cameroon, Queen Taryn?” Deon smiled at her.

“It’s growing on me. I still miss Georgia, but we needed a break after everything happened. I’m just now getting my sanity back. I was having nightmares for months.”

“I don’t blame you. Hell, I don’t even see how you did it. I love Jacko and all, but I don’t know if I would have been ready to die with the nigga.”

They all laughed before Taryn started talking.

“You say that now because you aren’t in that position, but when I tell you I wasn’t even thinking, I wasn’t. All I cared about was being with Demoto.”

“In life or death, huh?” Theresa smirked.

“Yes, girl, life or death. I was so serious. Sometimes I wonder would they have killed all of us for real if Buck hadn’t burst in the room with that confirmed kill contract and insufficient payment statement.”

Kerry shook her head and touched Theresa’s arm. “Girl, God used you in a major way that day.”

“I’m just glad I was able to get it done in time. I was sweating bullets running through the airport trying to get back here.”

Deon smiled at her. “Well, you did good, baby.”

“Thank you. Now I have the cutest, chocolate god-baby as a reward.” Theresa smiled at Taryn.

Azmera was the cutest little baby. She was chocolate just like Taryn, with a head full of jet black hair. It was silky and had grown so long so fast, she mostly wore it in a large curly fro. She had such silky hair they actually had to be going somewhere for Taryn to comb it. Other than that, there was no point because her bows would slide right off.

“Girl, you saved our lives that day. I thought twice about naming her little butt after you instead of my mama.”

When the laughter subsided again, Taryn looked up and saw Demoto at the door. He nodded his head at her and she got up. After telling them she would be right back, she followed him out of the kitchen. He didn’t say anything as they walked to the back of the house. When they got in Kia and Jacko’s room he closed the door. Taryn was about to say something, but was cut off when he grabbed her and kissed her.

He stuck his tongue so deep in her mouth she was sure he was trying to touch her tonsils. His hands held on tightly to her neck as he transferred all the passion and love he had for her through his lips to hers. When he finally let her go, she smiled.

“What was that for?”

“Because I love you. I love you more than anything.”

“Being home makes you emotional, doesn’t it?”

He smiled and nodded.

“I know. It makes me the same way.”

“You want to move back?” he asked.

“Maybe in a few months. I still need some time,” Taryn admitted.

She and Demoto had moved to Cameroon and took their royal places after that day at Double O. He, Jacko, and Buck had all quit and moved on to different things. After seeing just how little regard they had for the lives of their employees, neither of them had the desire to be associated with something like that. Jacko now did the budget for the army. Mr. Buck said he was too old to find another job, so he spends his time with his grandkids.

Demoto stared at her face for a long time before his eyes got misty. He wiped them quick, but Taryn still saw it.

“I can’t believe you was about to die with a nigga.”

“Kill your kids and all. We a family, ride together, die together.”

“Bad boys for life.” Demoto laughed as he finished the quote they’d stolen from Will Smith and Martin Lawrence on the
Bad Boyz
movie.

“You silly, man.” Taryn kissed his cheek.

“Real Riders Never Die, huh?” Demoto asked, as he opened the door so they could leave.

Taryn wrapped her arm around his stomach. “Well they probably do, just not right now.”

“Well what do they do right now?”

Taryn looked at all of her family and friends sitting around the living room. “They live happily ever after.”

The End!

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