Page 44 of Quasim II: King Inferno

We both experienced the heartbreak of losing a child. It was something we both struggled with, and now there was this second chance that God could have been possibly giving us. I felt like he was giving me a second chance with Elijah.

It was the reason I protected him and refused for anybody to take him from me. One conversation with Core, and I was already working on getting him a passport, and the proper identification.

Core told me he was going to look into some shit when it came to Elijah, because not much was known. If Thea wasn’t his mother, then who the fuck was she and why did she have him?

It was clear she wasn’t supposed to be a mother, so why did someone stick him with her? After seeing that picture he drew, some horrible shit happened to him, and I was still working my nerve up to have the conversation with him.

Thea did that fuck shit and then disappeared. It was like she was wiped off the face of the earth, never to be found again. As much as I wanted to blame Leon and beat his ass, he wasn’t involved. He wasn’t on the cameras, and his ass hadn’t been around much before the fire. I watched the cameras back and his car wasn’t in the driveway for a little while before, but that same detective car was.

It came three times in one week, and the expedition came one of those days. I never saw who was in that shit because the tints were too dark, and they always pulled up where the cameradidn’t catch who they were. At first, I was never that invested in what Thea’s hoe ass was doing.

Now I was.

“You good, baby?” Anjo’s voice pulled me from my thoughts as I held my phone and sat on the edge of the bed.

“Thinking. I want to tell—” my words were cut short when the doorbell sounded. “The fuck, did she run over here?”

“Who?”

“Capri.”

“Something happened?”

“Nah… she’s lending me something.”

Her shoulders relaxed and she went into the closet to get dressed, and slather that body mixture that had me ready to suck on her pussy the minute she came too close to me.

The knocking on the bedroom door made me shake my head, because how the hell she got over here so quick? “Come in.”

I watched as the door slowly opened and Capri stuck her head in, before Blaze shoved her ass to get into the room. “Where is she?”

“Right here?” Blair came out the closet with my robe on and looked between me and herbesties. “What is going on?”

Capri whipped out pregnancy tests in wrappers and smiled. “Brownies for my Brownie.”

Anjo shot daggers across the room, and I looked away. “Yeah, you be mad… come on so we can find out.”

“I know my body.”

“Oh yeah, then why did you complain about tender breasts?” Capri called her out.

“And you told me that you accidentally flushed Meer’s weed that he left behind the toilet.” Anjo called her out.

“Oh, fuck no… you told me that I misplaced that shit, Sug.”

“You did, baby… in the toilet. Who leaves their roll up in the bathroom anyway?” she tried to flip it on him.

“I turn the shower on, and the steam gets me higher.”

I laughed. “He been doing that shit since he was in high school. Always had Gams hollering at him about it.”

“Lying to your husband is bad, Capri.” Anjo continued on and laughed.

“You’ve been extra tired… fell asleep on the couch at the house before we went for a run.” Capri continued.

“Can you blame me? I have asthma.”

“The fuck that got to do with anything, my love?”

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