Page 38 of Back in Blood

“Because I’m sure you know it’s not Sin’s baby. In fact,” I sighed. “The child that Sin hit, I’m pregnant by her father.”

Gemini began choking on her drink. We all paused and looked at her as she coughed with tears streaming down her face.

“Dang, I’m not trying to kill you friend,” I stated when she was done coughing. “I know it’s a lot, and it’s crazy how we met. I think we trauma bonded. We’re not in a relationship, but we are going to coparent.”

“If it makes you happy, baby, I’m all in,” my mother gave me a reassuring smile. “Congratulations.”

“You know I’m with it,” Gemini chimed in. “I can’t wait to spoil him.”

“I had two kids in one year, so I can’t say a thing,” Gwen cosigned. “Congratulations, sissy.”

I had to admit that everyone being happy for me and not judging the situation made me feel a lot better. There was no need to mention that Capri and I weren’t on the best terms at the moment. I didn’t like the things he said to me, but I understood he was drunk, and I would give him grace. I couldn’t judge him for how he dealt with his pain, but I could have boundaries and hold my ground. When he was sober, we could talk. Until then, he could stay where he was at.

When we were done, I excused myself to go to the restroom. On the way out of the bathroom, I almost ran into Robin, literally. “Hi,” I gave her a small smile that melted off my face when I saw the scowl on hers.

“You were engaged to a guy named Sintonio?” she asked. She had finally heard. Someone had connected me to Sintonio.

“Yes, I was.”

“All those times you sat in my chair and offered me your condolences, and you knew who killed my baby?” The anger in her orbs was undeniable, but she was upset with the wrong person.

“What was I supposed to do, Robin? Tell you that I knew who he was? The moment I found out what he did, we no longer began to see eye to eye. We broke up, and he turned himself in for the crime. Being angry with me is a waste of time. I can’t help what he did.”

“Yeah okay,” Robin kissed her teeth and looked me up and down. “That shit still feels fake as fuck. The whole time you knew.”

“Is everything good?” Gwen asked speaking to me, but her gaze was trained on Robin.

“Yeah it is,” I spoke up. Robin could be mad all she wanted, and she could feel however she wanted to feel. I wasn’t going to stand there and attempt to make her change her mind.

I walked past her and when we got outside of the lounge, I filled my sister in on what transpired.

“I’ll slap the fuck outta that bitch,” she seethed as her eyes shot toward the entrance. “She has some nerve. How is she going to be mad at you because of what Sintonio did?”

I felt a headache coming on, and that was what I didn’t want. “It’s cool. She lost a child, and she has ovarian cancer. She probably wakes up mad at the world by default.”

“Yeah, well she better tread light.” Gwen was still pissed.

“Calm down crazy lady. I’m fine,” I chuckled and hugged her. “I just have to find a new lash tech.”

“I’ll send you my girl’s Instagram info. You know I mostly do my own lashes, but when I was getting mine done, she’s the only person that I let touch me.”

I nodded and said goodbye to my mother and Gemini. In my car, I sighed. I was full and tired. At least I no longer had to feel guilty about Robin not knowing that I was affiliated in some way to the man that ruined her life. Wait until she found out that I was pregnant by Capri. Shit would really hit the fan then. I was going home to take a nap. There was nothing that could be done about Robin’s feelings toward me. I had just pulled into the parking garage of my building when an unfamiliar number flashed on my phone screen.

“Hello?”

“Hi, is this Lisa?” a female voice asked.

“Yes. This is Lisa.”

“My name is Bianca. Capri is my brother. He was in a bad accident last night, and he asked me to call you. He’s at Diamond Cove Memorial in room 413.”

CHAPTER 21

CAPRI

The painthat was ricocheting through my body was worse than any physical pain I’d ever felt in my life. The moment the morphine wore off, pain exploded in every inch of my body. I was a grown ass man that could take a lot, but that shit was crippling me. I was trying to be a G and just deal with it, but I was two seconds away from buzzing the nurse and asking for more medicine. My dumb ass had flipped my car and ended up with a broken collar bone, sprained ankle, busted lip, and a broken rib. All I remembered was dozing off, waking up, and swerving to avoid hitting another car. From what Bianca told me after my car flipped twice, the person that I had narrowly missed got out of her car and helped me. It was a pregnant woman. Had I hit her and hurt her or her baby, I would have never been able to forgive myself. I was dumb as fuck for driving drunk the way that I did.

What was even more fucked up was the fact that I had to find it in my heart to forgive Sintonio. It was stupid as hell for him to shoot blindly the same way it was for me to drive dumb drunk. I could have killed an innocent child, and it would have been a mistake. I also would have accepted any punishment that would have come with it. I needed to get myself together before I wentdown a road of destruction that I couldn’t come back from. The police had already paid me a visit and made me aware that I was being charged with a DUI and would lose my license for thirty days. I also had a court date coming up.

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