Page 23 of Cove City: Vol. I

“Fuck on a nigga. Keep doing that shit.”

Hip swivel, up, then down.

Smack!

“Gutta nigga dick,” he grumbled.

Hip swivel, up, then down.

We were in motion. Pierre and I rocked the edge of that bed; I thought the whole thing broke. After our steamy session, he and I lay in bed, facing each other. I didn’t know what to say now that I had threw my ass in a circle. He reached out and moved a piece of my hair out of my face. “Yo ass still dry like a Tuesday but fuck like a Friday night.”

I laughed from my belly.

“On a serious note. I don’t want you to think that because we did this, we have to stop. I do need to talk to Sasha, though, and I'd rather tell you now than keep it a secret. She and I have a chapter to close, and until I do that, you and I cannot get serious.”

I felt indifferent. I respected his honesty, but knew how I could be. All I could do was smile because at the end of it all I was just another bitch on his roster.

“Zeus, let me handle it!” I shouted.

I was mad as fuck. Not only did he bring me to a place he knew Pierre would be his ass started fighting. I was holding on to Zeus, and I didn’t want to give him up, but the way he was acting made it feel like fighting the inevitable.

“We need to talk,” I mumbled as I sat on his couch.

He stood there with his arms crossed as he glared at me. “Talk about what?”

I closed my eyes tightly because I was trying. “Everything. Baby, we cannot move forward until I get this out.”

“All I want to know about is why the fuck the Zoo is just now finding out that Sono is that nigga’s cousin. Why every time I turn around, I’m finding out something new about you?”

I understood his frustration, but other than Pierre, I never had to explain. I patted the seat, but he stood. “I didn’t say anything about Quinton—”

“Who the fuck is Quinton?”

“Soho.”

“Should have known, nigga look like a muhfucka who had silver caps on his teeth as a kid,” Zeus grumbled.

I rolled my eyes. “I didn’t say anything about them being cousins because if I had, you guys wouldn’t let him in the crew.”

“You’re goddamn right. That nigga corny and sneaky something is off about him and how you can’t see that is what’s mind blowing, but that’s yourbrother.”

I dropped my head. “You don’t understand. We came from a family that left us out to try dry, and all we had was each other.Quinton needed a family, and the crew and I provided that for him. He helped me in a time I needed him, and I feel like I owe him.”

Zeus stood there looking at me, and I knew he wanted to know more. I ran my hand down my leg nervously because it was time to open up to the man I loved, not knowing how he would take what I was about to tell him.

“Zeus, baby, listen to me. I don’t want you to say anything, just allow me to get this off my chest. One night, I had gone out to meet up with the guys for a race. I-I don’t know if I was running late or I had the time wrong, but anyway, when I got there, nobody was there. All I remember was being attacked by this guy, and I,” I paused as I wiped my escaping tears.

Zeus came closer, kneeling before me. “Freckles don’t—”

I placed my fingers to his lips because I needed to tell him. I had to share with him the dark side of me because he needed to understand. “I tried fighting him off I did, but he-he raped me and next thing I know I was knocked out and when I came too still lying there Quinton was there to help me.”

“I’m sorry that happened to you. A nigga wish he could take all your pain and problems and bear them for you. Shit like this you shouldn’t hold in.”

“Zeus, I’ve been abused since I was a little girl. My body has been tortured in so many ways, sometimes I don’t know how I’m walking around sane.”

“Let me take all that hurt for you. A nigga doesn’t know what love is supposed to look like because although I had both my parents what I saw, to me, wasn’t love. I’m trying to learn, trying to be patient and I may not get it right the first time, but a nigga going to get it right the second time.”

His saying that to me filled me with a piece of him I felt like I was missing, and that was understanding. Zeus was bullheaded and most of the time, a situation centered around him, but atthis moment, he allowed it to be about me. I wrapped my arms around his neck, bringing him closer, kissing him. He and I were meant for each other, and although we were far from perfect, we were learning the meaning of love together.

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