⚖️ Chapter 22 ⚖️

          ⚖️  Antoine's pov ⚖️

The day of Alkaline's trial finally came, I was kept busy while keeping a track on Dean. My mother was doing a great job of keeping me informed of her going outs and coming ins, so far she hasn't gone anywhere that brook suspicion- but I'm still watching her. Dean cannot be trusted and I was not sure that she loves me, she is out of danger now- but I'm not letting her know that. Keeping her fearful has been keeping her in line and stable, the stunt she pulled on me and left with Adajay has shown me that she was dangerous.

  I took up the bunch of keys and attach it to my knapsack bag, I'll have to remember to not leave it careless again. The news of Alkaline's verdict hit me hard, I got up in a rage and walk out into my yard. "Oh fuck!" I snarled in anger.

  The gate opens bringing in Grung after a few minutes, Hot-tool and Gremlin. "Quenger and di rest a chappa dem a forward," Grung stated.

"Hot-tool, call Chadwick an' ask him if everything finalize fi Demar flight," I ordered Hot-tool whose face immediately took on a distressed look.

"Mi just talk to him few minutes aguh, Demar nah come until two weeks time and him sey yuh nuffi call bout nutn pertaining to Demar," he said lowly like he wish he didn't have to relay the message to me.

  I took out my phone unlocked it and call Demar, he answered on the first ring. "Yeah!"

"A wha mek yuh change yuh flight and a wha you a Chadwick have?" I ask putting the phone on speaker for them all to hear.

"Mi and him nuh really have nutn a just dat mi fail one a mi exam dem and di work company put mi fi re-do it, when mi sign up dem have mi flight information suh dem change mi flight without telling me it's when mi get the flight change notification while me and him a pack mi know. Suh mi sey to him sey mi done dey here- suh might as well mi just stay and deal wid it, him a skin up him face and a sey mi dey pon mi own," he explained.

I sighed inwardly and ask. "Das all?"

"As far as mi know," he responds flatly.

"Yow, Jah know, how everything wey yah a duh yuh nuh tell nuhbody nutn my youth?" I ask feeling disappointed with him.

"Everything like wha mi a duh? Mi a big man ino, mi a nuh buoy suh mi nuh affi a hide and duh nutn and mi nuh must tell a man wha nuh relevant to dem. Mi nuh need fi tell nuh lie or a explain everything to a man every minute, mi nuh owe nuh man nutn we are all equal," I said his voice was brimming with an underlying anger but I was thinking deep about what he just said.

"A'right den, hope yuh past yuh exam on the resit," I told him maintaining my calm.

"Thanks. Later," he said and the call ends.

"Him sound tired and miserable," Grung stated.

"He's annoyed, because Chadwick feel like him a tell lie," Gremlin said and they sounded as if they were covering for Demar's behaviour so I said nothing.

  I held what he said in my head for the next two weeks while we plot and plan to take down those who I have marked for death. Going for the judge first is my aim, but it was difficult to take him out with all his train body guards and I was depending on Demar to come and help. He call saying he wasn't going to be able to make it until another two weeks and I told him to fuck off and end the call.

  We were getting ready to go and take out the judge only to hear on the news that he was taken out that evening. Another two targets were also taken out causing us to now be grouped up in deep conversation. "Wey Demar, him nuh reach round yah yet?" Quenger ask as I began to speak.

  Everyone turn looking at him and Hot-tool ask. "Demar come?"

"Suh nuh him guh deal wid dem thing dey since evening," Quenger said surprising us.

"From when him come?" I ask him.

"Mi nuh know, a not too long mi see him and a ask him a when him forward, him just laugh an' sey later," Quenger explains and everone begins to murmer.

  We waited half an hour for him to show up but he didn't, in anger I got in my jeep and drive around to his yard but his mother said he left about ten minutes ago. "Yuh know sey mi nah call him," I said to Hot-tool in anger.

  He was a no show for a whole two weeks, dropping the worst of those on the list and I couldn't help but wonder if he deliberately chose to only take out the more evil and corrupt ones. He barely murmur a greeting and climbed up into the tree above us, where he sat smoking and looking down. His phone rings and he answered and was like, "mhnm mnhun, ah tsk later."

  I shook my head as two young women past, I had a strong female they were looking for him and my thoughts were confirmed when I look up and saw him perch further up in the tree away from ones immediate view. Quenger look up and started to laugh and so did the others.

  We could not keep up a straight conversation like before as every few minutes a few young chicks past, like nutn nuh dey a dem yard fi duh on this bright Saturday morning. He came down saying "later" and walk off, then spun around when he was almost at the corner and retraced his steps. Three young women that had no business on this road came and stood some distance away, he glance at them and walk off in the next direction.

"Humn bloodclaate! Mi think mi did awful," I said laughing.

"Yow di man watsapp profile says it all, not fi mention him status. 'Leave me alone please leave me alone,' wid a bag a things type up pon di jingle," Swinger said chuckling.

"A how dem know sey him dey yah? Because him not even a walk pon di road, a di first from him dey yah mi see him come out," Quenger ask saying.

The relevant threats that l had sent out made Alkaline and his two friends get a court date for a retrial, afterall I don't see why he should have to serve any time at all for defending himself- but as was the law for taking a life in whatever way. A curfew was placed in Rema and I was ordered down to the station and locked up, my lawyer was informed that I was a liability to the case and was therefore place on watch.

  I was immensely angry and odered Demar to take out the others on the list.

       Dean's pov

  It was good to talk to Adajay on a regular basis, I know Antoine has everything to do with the murders that has been taking place and my skin crawl. His mother did not walk over to the plaza again, one of the chappas came and drove her over there and I was glad when she took the twins. I knew she was watching me but I am too slick for her, my latest discovery of a copy of the land title shocks my mother.

  When Adajay came to visit, she brought the large bag I ask her to buy, all of me and my mother's important documents went in it along with my most expensive stuffs. They were not aware that we knew and Cam said she surmise that they were up to something as they talk privately mostly when they were over the plaza. I told her and my mother one day when we were alone in my grocery store that I was seriously planning to leave and I was taking my sons with me. I would brave Australia or Iceland, anywhere far and where Antoine wouldn't think to look for me.

  My mother said if and when I think the coast was clear, I should not leave her. Cam agreed and said she will only tell her husband if we really decide to, my mother reasoned that it would be good if we all leave.

"Mi think him change but dog shit beside dem shit and if yuh throw food dey dem nwam it. Bright! Bout when yuh six foot six, a thru yuh nuh know how it bun mi and Anthonia gwane like sey she neva waan sey nutn to him. Tsk, a doe chat to none a dem more dan suh an' a don't care, it obvious from him put on di extra room dem a di top dem nah move out," my mom stated vexedly.

  Cam sighed and said. "Fi him love mi caan undastan, him waan gi bun and nuh waan get back- but mek him stay dey any hole him dig a him one a drop in dey di next time. Look all a wha him put yuh thru and him still caan calm, an' is like him nuh si sey every minute him ina jail."

  "Him a crosses! See him crosses mumma a come dey to, fucking outta order bout dem search up ina mi room. Tsk," mommy says hissing her teeth.

To be continued...