Breaking Point

Chapter 9: Cut

**********January 9, 2018**********

I woke up from the thirty minute nap that hit at 7:30am after crying my eyes out all night. I got ready and put some shades on to cover the swollen eyes. When I got downstairs, Gregorio was waiting by the door. He kissed my cheek before we headed to his Range and left.

The whole ride I thought about what I wanted to tell Gregorio. By the time we pulled up to a club I decided to tell him everything. We got out and headed inside and I still hadn't said anything. I knew what was up with Gregorio's money. Everyone greeting him as "boss" just solidified what had yet to be spoken.

We headed down a secret door to a basement area that was huge with little offices surrounding it. There was a side with bitches counting money in bikinis and a side with pretty young looking duded bagging dope. I looked around before I continued to follow Gregorio the farthest room in the back. It was a hug office that spit with a lounge area. He sat on the couch and I sat with him.

"Do you want to start or should I?"

"Rio just promise me...." I felt my voice cracking "Promise me you won't do anything without my okay... and you won't stop me"

"I promise"

"Ms. Margret dying.... I thought I got to go home. I kept asking if I could see my brother. I told them your name but when I didn't know my last name they just said forget it.... Her daughter Shaucey showed up and took me in. She wasn't awful but she acted helpless. I was basically a slave" I shook my head "I cooked, cleaned, shit I managed the accounts....everything. She just lived and partied with her friends. She was only twenty somethings and she always said she was looking for you so I was content. I knew one day you'd come"

"I didn't even know Ms. Margret had a daughter" he sighed "I went to find our dad. I found him in jail and when I came back they told me she died and that they took you. I looked everywhere for you"

"She moved us to Miami" I sighed as I felt the anger building "But that didn't last long. She met some nigga with money that didn't like the idea of her raising a kid that wasn't hers or even related to her. So what does the dumb hoe do? Flip me for a profit"

"Huh?"

"We went to an amusement park and all of a sudden I was snatched up. I was scared for two days until she showed up and I realized she was just getting rid of me. Some drug dealer bought me to do his dope drops. Told me I looked innocent and sweet so no one would suspect I had bricks tapped to my stomach and thighs"

"What was his name?"

"Prince" I felt myself tense up and tears roll down my face "I was in Atlanta with him... He got big... he was the top of the top. And once I wasn't innocent and sweet. Once I almost got caught by the cops" I shook my head as I looked down

"Gio tell me" Rio spoke with a deeper darker voice

"I was his to use" I shook my head "I was a punching bag, a sex toy, a tester.... shit whatever he wanted.... He was fucking crazy"

"How'd you get away from him?"

"I got pregnant and was no use to him anymore.... he tried to sell me to this couple. They were detectives for sex trafficking. They didn't catch him though. They were suppose to leave ernnthe money and take me from school. He had some chick pick up the money and she wouldn't give him up. When they got me I told them everything I knew but when they went... he was gone. Everything was packed up and gone...."

"He knew it was a set up" he shook his head "I'm gone find that nigga. I promise you that"

"Yeah"