Page 105 of Her Loyalty

"Shit wun' worth it." He went onto say and I just stared at him with hurt eyes.

"Dominic, please." I ended up begging him as we sat outside of my mom's house and he sighed heavily.

"Aight, T."

"Just give me five." He went onto say, removing the already rolled blunt from behind his ear.

I simply nodded, getting out of the car and making my way into the house. I sighed deeply as I did, hoping that everything would go good today.

"Mom!" I called, walking in.

"I'm in the living room, Tiana." She answered as I closed the door behind me.

Making my way out of the foyer and toward the living room, I walked in and she looked up at me.

"Hey." I smiled nervously as she sat there with a smile.

"Hey, T." She spoke as I plopped down onto the couch beside her.

"Where's Dominic?" She asked.

"He's in the car, he'll be a second." I explained and she simply nodded.

"What made you want us to sit down and talk today?" She asked and I shook my head.

"No. This was all his idea." I lied, just trying to make it sound good as I heard the front door open.

We both looked up as I listened to Dominic's footsteps approaching, making me more nervous by the second.

"Babe." I called as he finally walked into the room and it seemed as if a cloud of smoke had followed him into the house.

"Hello, Dominic." My mother spoke to him as he walked over to me and sat down beside me.

"Hi, Ms. Wanda." He spoke, grabbing my hand and kissing it.

"How've you been? I'm happy to see the two of you together again." She smiled and he chuckled, licking his lips.

"Yeah, I been good. Your daughter been keepin' me sane these days."

"That's great.." My mom trailed off as the room slowly fell silent.

"So-" I tried to speak up but mom cut me off.

"I heard this was all your idea. You wanting to sit down and talk to me and all." She went onto say and he jolted his head back.

"Na'.."

"Hell na'. This was all T." He went on, obviously offended.

"Well yeah, I set it up but we both came up with the ide-"

"So Tiana set this all up?" She cut me off again, completely ignoring me and talking to him.

He looked over to me with smile before nodding.

"Yeah." He admitted as they both eyed me.

"Well yeah I did bu-"

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