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BRYCE

“I’m ready
to go,” Dominic announced for the second time tonight. I swear I hate going
places with him sometimes. He acts like he can’t stay away from Brooklyn too
long. He’s called or texted her every five minutes since we’ve been here. We’re
at a hole in the wall bar shooting pool and having drinks. Aside from us two,
David and Jaden were here as well.

“Man,
Brooklyn ain’t going anywhere,” I yelled at him. “You not gon’ get in trouble
if you stay out late.”

“I think
Brooklyn be beating on my lil brother,” David said with a straight face. “I don’t
want to get the police involved, but I will if I have to.”

We all looked
at Dominic and fell out laughing. As tall as he is, I couldn’t imagine Brooklyn
trying to fight him. He has to damn near kneel down just to kiss her.

“You
niggas better stop playing with me. We don’t do violence in our household,”
Dominic said.

“Let’s go
before his ass starts crying in here,” David said still messing with his
brother.

“I need to
use the bathroom first.
Y’all
got me
laughing so hard I’m about to pee on myself,” Jaden said as he walked toward
the back.

That’s always
the case whenever David was around. He keeps everybody laughing no matter what
mood you’re in. He’s the type that’s funny without even trying to be funny.

“What’s
going on with the house hunting?” I asked Dominic while we waited.

“We found
a few that we like. Brooklyn fell in love with the one in English Turn. I really
hope we get that one. The real estate agent put in the offer a few days ago.
She said it
could
take up to four to six
weeks before we hear something, but sometimes it may come sooner,” he answered.

“English
Turn? You’re trying to spend some real money, huh?” English Turn is a gated
golf and country club community. It’s nothing for a house to run for three to four
hundred thousand or more.

“It’s a
foreclosed property, so the price isn’t bad. It was only built like eight
months ago. It’s like six bedrooms with a pool.”

“Y’all don’t
even need that much space. Baby is buggin’ for real,” I said.

“That’s
what she wants and that’s what she’s getting. I just hope they accept my offer.
The agent is confident that they will,” Dominic replied.

“Ain’t
that the same place that Kennedi wanted to move to?” David asked.

“Yep,”
Dominic replied calmly.

“You
better not tell Baby that shit. She might change her mind if she finds that out,”
I joked with him.

“I hope
y’all
do get it. I’m posting that shit on a billboard
just to make sure Kennedi’s ass see it,” David swore.

“Let’s
roll,” Jaden said coming from the bathroom.

We all made our way out to the front of the
almost empty bar. Candace showed us this place a few months
ago,
and we’ve been coming here ever since.
There’s never a
crowd,
and the food and
drinks are decent. Besides us, there was no one else in the bar except for a
couple who was hugging and kissing at a table across the room. Dominic walked
ahead of us as we talked and headed for the front door. He slowed his stride,
but I didn’t pay attention as to why. All of sudden he broke out and started
running to the other side of the room. When he got close to a table where the couple
sat, he punched the man in his face, knocking him out of his chair. We rushed
over to try and stop him until we realized who it was that he started beating.

NADIA

“Dominic
stop!” I screamed to the top of my lungs. After eating and having a few drinks,
Kevin and I were enjoying each other’s company. We were so busy hugging and
kissing that we didn’t even see anyone coming towards us until it was too late.
Dominic came out of nowhere and started throwing jabs at Kevin. David,
Bryce,
and Jaden were with him, but nobody
tried to intervene.

“Get up
nigga! You like to fight women, fight me back,” Dominic yelled as he continued
his attack.
 

I’ve seen
Kevin fight Shannon more times than I can count, but he was letting Dominic
wipe the floor with him. He was swinging back, but his licks must have been too
soft. Dominic was shaking them off like they came from his son. I don’t
understand why he even had a problem with Kevin aside from the fact that he had
a brief relationship with Brooklyn. They’re back together, so that shouldn’t
matter anymore. He kept saying that Kevin likes to beat on women, but I’m
wondering how he knows about that. More importantly why does he even care if Kevin
beats on his girlfriend? Something isn’t adding up.

“Somebody
stop
him,” I continued to yell. I tried pulling
Bryce’s arm for him to do something, but he snatched away from me.

“Don’t
touch me. That nigga deserves that ass whooping for putting his hands on my
sister,” he replied angrily.

“He didn’t
put his hands on your sister,” I yelled in Kevin’s defense.

“Shut up
Nadia. You a straight up hoe.
You’re
standing
here defending this nigga when you were just fucking his brother a few weeks
ago. You don’t know what he did so stop speaking on it,” Jaden barked.

I looked
up and saw the bartender standing by the bar looking petrified. She’s been
glued to the same spot she’s been in since we got here earlier.

“Don’t
just stand there looking stupid, call the police,” I screamed at her. Her dumb
ass just looked at me like I was crazy, but she still didn’t budge.

“Damn
Nadia, I use to consider
you
family at
one time. I would have never thought you would turn out like this,” David said
looking at me in disgust.

“I’m not
about to just stand around and let your brother kill him,” I replied in my own
defense.

“Come on
lil brother, chill out. Let that nigga make it,” David said as he pulled
Dominic off of Kevin.

I rushed
over to Kevin and helped him off of the floor. He was barely able to stand
after the beat down that he just received. I had to practically stand him up
and sit him back down in the chair. He had a huge knot on his
forehead,
and his right eye was almost swollen
shut. I grabbed a hand full of napkins and tried to stop the blood that dripped
from his lip, but he snatched them from me.

“I guess
that’s why you beat on women. You can’t fight for shit,” Jaden laughed and
shook his head at Kevin.

Dominic stared
at Kevin with pure hate in his eyes. If David wasn’t holding him back, I’m sure
he would have finished him off.

“Let’s go,”
Bryce suggested. He walked out first followed by Jaden, who wore a sneaky grin
on his face. He’s crazy as
hell,
and I
never did trust his ass.

“You good
man?” David had
asked
Dominic before they
walked out. Dominic nodded his
head,
and
they slowly made their way to the door.

They were
almost gone when Jaden stopped and walked back towards us. We didn’t even get a
chance to react before he grabbed a bottle from the table and smashed it across
Kevin’s head. Kevin fell back to the floor while I jumped up and screamed.

“I never
did like your pretty boy looking ass,” he spat with a frown on his face.

“Let’s go
Jaden!” Bryce yelled to his baby brother.

 
“I got a bunch of pretty bitches ready to put
in
work
for me whenever you ready for it
Nadia,” he threatened before walking out with the rest of his crew.

I knew
that was a warning for me not to get the police involved. Jaden doesn’t make
threats
he makes promises and I knew not to
take them lightly.

“Are you
okay?” I asked while trying to help Kevin up from the floor.

“Get the
fuck off of me!” He snarled angrily.

“I’m only
trying to help you. You look like you need to go to the hospital.”

“I should
have never let you talk me into coming here. All this shit is your fault. You
probably set the shit up.”

“How is
any of this my fault? I didn’t know that they were going to be here. I wouldn’t
have come here if I did.”

“Just take
me to my truck and stop talking to me,” he quipped.

I watched
as he pulled himself up from the floor and staggered to the exit, barely making
it to the door. I couldn’t believe he would even think that I had something to
do with Dominic beating him up. As much shit as he
talks,
I thought for sure he at least knew how to fight. He hit so
soft I wonder how Shannon even got those black eyes that he gave her.

“At least
let me put something on your face before you leave,” I offered.

“Whatever,”
he replied brushing me off.

We
traveled the rest of the way to my apartment in complete silence. I kept
stealing peeks at Kevin, but he just stared straight ahead. Dominic had really
done a number to his face. Thanks to Jaden, he had a nice size gash in the back
of his head as well. I wanted to ask him when and why did he put his hands on
Brooklyn, but this was not a good time. That was a huge mistake he’d
made,
and I’m sure he knows that now.

“Are you
coming in?” I asked Kevin once we pulled up to my apartment complex. “Please,
just for a minute.”

I didn’t
have anything to do with what happened, but I do feel bad about it. I’m also
concerned about him driving home in the condition that he’s in. He barely made
it to the
car,
and he’s all banged up. After
thinking about it for a while, he got out of the car and started towards my
apartment. I hopped out, followed behind him and opened the front door. I
rushed to the bathroom and got my first aid kit and some peroxide. After
grabbing some cotton balls, I went back to the living room and sat next to him
on the sofa. He played on his phone while I tried my best to bandage up his
wounds.

“Ouch,” he
winced in pain when I got to the
sore
area at the back of his head.

“Sorry,” I
mumbled. After working
on
him for about
ten more minutes, I finally finished. After cleaning all the blood away, he
looked just a little bit better, but not much. I’ve seen Dominic in action more
times than I can count. He’s like a young Muhammad Ali when it comes to
fighting. Even if Kevin could
fight,
he
probably wouldn’t have won.

“Get me a
mirror,” Kevin requested.

I put away
my first aid kit and handed him the small mirror that I kept in my bathroom. I
watched as he frowned at the damage that Dominic had done to his face. I would hate
for this incident to be the thing to possibly tear us apart.

“Kevin, I’m
so sorry about what happened. I swear I didn’t know they were going to be in
there. I’ve been there a million
times,
and I’ve never seen Dominic or any of Brookly
n’s
family there,” I swore. Instead of answering me he kept his head down playing
on his phone. I heard my own phone
ringing,
so I got up to answer it.

“Your
girlfriend is calling me again,” I said blowing out a breath of frustration.

“She keeps
texting me. Answer your phone,” he insisted.

“Hey
Shannon,” I answered trying not to sound aggravated even though I was.

“Hey
Nadia, are you busy?” She asked sounding upset. I looked at Kevin shaking his
head telling me to say no.

“No, what’s
up?”

“I just
need to get out of this house for a while. I feel like I’m going crazy. Kevin
is gon’ make me kill him and his side bitch,” she cried.

Hearing
her say that made my heart beat just a little bit faster. She doesn’t know that
I’m the side
bitch,
and I plan to keep it
that way.

“What
happened?” I asked just to see what she knew.

“I’ve been
calling him all day and he hasn’t answered. Then he had the nerve to text and
asked
me what I want. I know he’s somewhere
laid up with a hoe, but he better pray that I never find out,” she fumed.

“Girl, don’t
worry about that. He’s probably somewhere getting his mind right. You should be
happy as much as
y’all
fight. I wish I
could come get you, but my car is in the shop. It’s been acting up
on
me lately,” I lied.

“Damn. As
much as I don’t want to I’m about to take this bitch Tiffany up on her offer,”
she replied pissing me off.

“What
offer?” I asked.

“She asked
if I wanted to go have a drink with her and I said no. I’m about to call her
and tell her that I changed my mind. I’ll talk to you later.”

Shannon
forming a friendship with Tiffany was making what I’m doing with Kevin that
much easier. She’s not loyal to me so why should I be loyal to her.

“What do
you even see in her?” I asked Kevin once I hung up the phone. That’s been something
that I’ve wanted to ask him since the first day I laid eyes on her.

“You
wouldn’t understand. She might not have the best shape or the prettiest face,
but she’s loyal. She’ll do whatever she has to do to make me
happy,
and I only have to ask once. I never
have to worry about her leaving or cheating on me because I’m all that she
knows. If it came down to my life and hers she would gladly leave this world
for me,” he said seriously without a doubt in his mind.

“How do
you think she would feel if she knew that you were here with me right now? What
do you think she would say if she knew that
you
had
been here for the past two days? You don’t think she would leave you
then?” I asked curiously.

“Not at
all. After she beats your
ass,
she’ll be
giving me a
blowjob
and bringing me
breakfast in bed. I’ve seen it happen a million times before,” he replied
arrogantly.

“What
makes you think she would beat my ass? And what makes you think I would let
her?”

“Don’t
underestimate her.
Y’all
are from two
different worlds,” he answered.

“Fuck
Shannon! If she was all that you wouldn’t be here with me. That bitch wants to
be Tiffany’s friend so let her be. I felt bad about being with you at first,
but I don’t anymore,” I
ranted
.

“So you
said that you’re sorry about what happened to me today, huh?” Kevin asked
changing the subject.

“Yes Kevin,
I really am,” I confirmed.

“Well, show
me then,” he replied with a sexy smirk.

He didn’t
have to ask me twice. I crawled over to him on the sofa and sat on his lap.
After sharing a long passionate kiss, I dropped down to my knees and did what I
always do before we have sex. Kevin loves oral sex, but he’s not like Kyle. He
never returns the gesture. After a few minutes of me trying to swallow him
whole, I got up from the floor and straddled him.

“Are you
seriously going to play with your phone right now? I asked in aggravation. “That
game can wait.”

Once he
put his phone down, he grabbed my hips and started drilling into me like he was
drilling for oil. At the moment, Shannon was a distant memory for me. If things
went right with me and Kevin, she would be a distant memory for him too.