The Brothers

While Cam and Colin were downstairs in the basement, Odell is doing what Odell does, and Luke attempts to shoot his shot with Miss Carly. She's working the bar tonight, so Luke makes his way over. He leans against the bar and they both make eye contact with each other.

"Can I get you anything, Mr. Kuechly?"

"Call me Luke."

"Okay. Luke. Is there anything I can get you?"

"No. I'm good." She nods and begins to walk away until he calls her back. "Wait." He says over the music. She cracks a smile before turning back around.

"Yes."

"I just wanted to tell you that I think you're very beautiful."

"Thank you. Can I go back to doing my job now?"

He gives a nod of approval and watches her walk away. He feels a hand on his shoulder and looks over to see Odell.

"You good?" He asks over the music.

"Y-yeah! I'm fine."

"You seen Kap?"

"He was just standing over there." He says pointing to the location he last saw Colin. They both look over and he's not there.

"I'll find him. And go ahead and shoot your shot!"

"I tried. All I could tell her was that she was beautiful...she didn't give me much time to say anything else."

Odell shakes his head. "We gone work on it." He says. Odell heads to the office, where Cam is trying to figure out what the hell that was about.

"You gonna explain?" Cam asks.

"Explain what, man? You saw it with your own two eyes didn't you?"

"But why! Why bring that here. Our place of business. You gotta tell me something."

"Somebody put a hit out on us, and he knew something. Mothafucker didn't come clean."

"So what now? Whoever it is that ordered the hit is still out there."

"I know that. Don't worry about anything. Nothing's gonna happen to the club, y'all are fine."

They both look quickly towards the door that opens and Odell walks in. "Yo...what the fuck? Is that blood?" He asks looking at Colin's shirt.

"What you need?"

"I need you to answer my question. Who's blood is that man?"

"It's not important." He says taking the shirt off and walks to the safe his gun was in. Odell silently watches him place the gun inside of it and locks it. He puts on his button up, and suit jacket and places the bloody muscle tee in a bag. "I'm calling it a night early. Y'all hold it down." He says then walks downstairs and outside where Shawn is waiting in the black SUV.

"The fuck happened?" Odell asks.

"Somethings are just better left unsaid."

There's a long pause. "You okay?"

"Yeah. Let's get back downstairs."

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Colin gets back to his penthouse, and heads straight for the shower. He scrubbed away all residual blood from his body, but what he couldn't scrub away was the guilt. Never had he had to kill someone. Usually the guys in the crew were happy to take care of the dirty work. But something came over him tonight, and he squeezed the trigger.

After his shower, he tried to go to bed, and sleep it off, but he couldn't. It wasn't till about 4 am that he decided to drive 30 minutes outside the city to Aaliyah's place. He couldn't be alone.

He arrives and knocks for a few minutes until she finally opens the door. "Colin....what are you doing here?"

"Can I come in."

"...yeah." She takes his hand and pulls him inside, locking the door behind them. She heads towards the room but doesn't feel his presence behind her. She turns around and he's not there. "Colin?" She says in a quiet tone. She goes by CJs room and he's in there.

Aaliyah walks up next to him and puts her arm around his waist. "Come on, let's go to bed."

"I can't sleep."

"Then we won't go to sleep then. I'll stay up with you. We can talk or just lay there in silence, it's all up to you."

He nods and before leaving the room, he plants a kiss on his son's forehead. They get to the bedroom, Colin gets undressed then joins her in bed and she rests her head on his chest.

"You wanna talk about it."

"No."

"Okay. We can just lay here then."

That entire night, Colin didn't go to sleep. Aaliyah eventually gave up and fell asleep, but he didn't mind. Just holding her was all he needed. She knew something was up, but would try to find out later.

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Back in the city, after leaving the nightclub when they got everything shit down and cleaned up in the club, Cam went to his home. Stumbling in around 3 almost 4am. He brain was constantly replaying what happened in the basement. Never has he seen a person killed, or killed in the manner in which the dude was in person. He had never seen Colin in that state of mind. Ever. It somewhat scared him. He couldn't really believe that was Colin. That was someone else, he kept thinking to himself.

After taking a quick shower he gets in bed and holds his lady close to him.

"How was it tonight?" She asks quietly.

"Same old shit."

"I didn't like the way that sounded."

"Don't worry about it." He says. She immediately knew something happened, and was determined to get to the bottom of it.