After Joe was given the news that Darnell murdered his mother in a botched burglary gone wrong, he was in a catatonic state of shock. The horrible news took it's toll on Joe. It felt like he had been hit by a semi truck. So many thoughts and questions were running through his mind. Joe was quiet for so long that his cousins became concerned.

"Hey Uce? Can you hear me? Say something dawg!" Jon said, as he waved his hand in front of Joe's face.

Joe remained quiet and continued to stare off into space. Suddenly, tears started to run unchecked down his cheeks and into his beard. At that moment, Joe began to openly sob as he thought of his late mother....

"Mama!! Mama!!!" Joe sobbed pitifully and repeatedly.

Noticing his cousin's dejected emotional state caused Josh to calm down and address Joe sympathetically...

"Look Uce...I-I didn't want to just come out and say it. I know what Auntie Pat meant to you...what she meant to all of us. I'm sorry that you had to hear it this way. You had to know, but I promise you Uce, we gon' handle that shit. That muthafucka ain't gonna get away with this and that's on everything. Right y'all?" Josh said to Joe and his two brothers.

Jon and Solo nodded their heads in agreement.

"I-I-I-I'm sorry.for.the.fucked.up way I acted. I just don't wanna lose Shan."  Joe sobbed in hiccups.

"It's all good Uce. Don't worry 'bout it. Just know you gotta diamond of a wife. They don't get no more loyal and loving than her. When I say she truly loves you, she TRULY loves you." Josh said quietly.

"How do you know?" Joe asked, sniffing and wiping his eyes, starting to regain his composure.

"I'll let her tell you. Aye Solo, tell Kecia to bring Shan downstairs. It's important." Josh said.

"Aight". Solo said as he went to go get Shantelle.

Meanwhile in Shantelle and Joe's Bedroom.....

Kecia had got Shantelle in the shower and got her a change of clothes after she wet herself. She was still crying hysterically the entire time.

"I'm a failure!! All I was trying to do was help!!! He hates meeee!!!!" Shantelle sobbed as Kecia was holding her, rocking back and forth in an attempt to console her.

"Girl....no he doesn't hate you."

"Yes he does, he hates me!" She sobbed.

"Shantelle, that crazy muthafucka is in love with you. Don't ever think he hates you, he just be doin too much sometimes that's all." Kecia said as she was drying her tears with a tissue.

At that moment, there was a knock at the door and Solo poked his head in...

"Aye Kecia, Josh said to bring Shan downstairs. It's important." He said.

Shantelle looked at Kecia, her eyes wide with fear....

"I'm afraid." She said.

"Don't be...I'll go with you." Kecia said.

"Ok"

When Shantelle and Kecia got downstairs, they saw Jon and Joshua in the foyer, but no sign of Joe.

"Where is he?" She asked, looking around nervously.

"He in the living room, it's cool, he's calm, just real sad that's all. Aye, we told him about his moms." Jon said.

"Oh no." She said, closing her eyes.

"Yeah but you gon' need to explain to him how we found out." Josh explained.

"I was afraid of that." She said, taking a deep sigh.

As Shantelle went into the living room, she saw Joe sitting on the sofa with his head in his hands.

"Baby?" She said softly, as she gently put her hand on his massive shoulder.

Joe jerked up as if he had been startled. His eyes and nose were red and his face was damp with tears.

"They said you know how Darnell killed my mom. Tell me!" Joe said, his voice cracking.

Shantelle looked at the twins and Solo who nodded their heads in encouragement to go on. She then took a deep breath before explaining. She began to explain when Darnell first came to the house as an Instacart shopper all the way up to what happened at Starbucks. When she was done explaining, Joe was even more furious, and he was struggling to control his rage which was already at the boiling point.

"So lemme get this straight. You went near him AFTER I told you specifically to stay away from him? So, in other words you disobeyed me? Why did you disobey me?" Joe asked his wife.

"I-I was just trying to help you. My gut told me he had something to do with it and I just had to confirm it, that's all." She said in a quiet voice, her head down.

At that moment, Josh interrupted the couple...

"Um. That's not all Uce. Tell him Shan. And when she tell you Uce, don't fly off the handle, just hear her out." Joshua said carefully.

"What?" Joe said in a scary voice.

"He asked me out to dinner at Jackson's Steakhouse this Friday, and......and...". She stuttered.

"AND...AND...WHAT?" Joe yelled.

"I told him I would, but...I am not going to go." Shantelle said.

Joe was ready to explode again, and that's when Josh spoke up before Joe did something he would seriously regret..

"When the muthafucka get there, me, Jon and Solo gonna be there waiting for his ass. Shan ain't gonna be no where around. He think he's gonna meet her. We gonna snatch him up and throw his ass in the back of a trunk, and bring him right to you Uce. Just find a empty warehouse and meet us there and you'll get to take off on his ass. After you had your fill, one of Solo's colleagues uncles got a crematorium. We drop his body off and that's all she wrote! Problem solved!" Josh said.

"So what you think Uce? You down or what?" Jon asked.

Let's do it. I'm gonna make sure he dies a slow agonizing death." Joe said.

TBC
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