Page 122 of Her Loyalty

All I wanted was for him to apologize and here we were back at square one. Breaking up. Again.

"Are you serious right now?" I asked, anger shooting through my body.

"You the one said that shit so don't get mad at me."

"You wun' leave a nigga because of your moms, gon' head. You did it before, what's the difference na'?"

"You are such a fucking asshole. All I wanted you to do was apologize, Dominic. It didn't even have to get here."

"Na' it did. Cause all your moms gotta do is say one thing bad about a nigga and you jump off the deep end every time."

"You called her a bitch! What the hell do you want me to do?" I snapped, feeling stuck in the middle.

"It's not my fault you don't have a fucking mom so you don't understand." I went off, instantly realizing I said the wrong thing.

I gasped, watching as he put his head down, looking down at the floor.

"Baby." I called trying to make it right but he scoffed, shaking his head.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to say that." I tried, reassuring him.

"Aight." He waved me off.

"Just get ready to go, T." Was all he said before leaving out of the room while I sat there dumbfounded.

40.

Tiana

Sitting at the edge of the bed, I looked around the huge hotel room, feeling worse and worse by the second.

It'd been a little over a couple hours since Dominic and I got into it. He'd ending up apologizing to my mother on the way over here while I continued to feel bad about my choice of words. I knew I shouldn't have gone that far with him.

"Your water ready, T." He said coming out of the bathroom before plopping down onto the bed.

I sat there a while as he scrolled his phone and I couldn't help but to apologize again for the hundredth time.

"Babe, I'm sorry." I went on to say.

"I didn't mean it the way that I said it."

"Aight, T." Was all he said as he continued to scroll his phone. He was pretending as if this wasn't even affecting him but I knew my boyfriend, he was so hurt on the inside.

"Gon' head and get in the bubble bath before it get cold." He told me, making me look toward the bathroom.

"Can you get in with me?" I asked and he shook his head.

"Na'.." He trailed off, making me sigh.

"Please, babe?"

"Na' ma. I'm good." He went on, rejecting my offer.

Saying nothing else, I slowly stood to my feet and limped toward the bathroom. The bathroom wasn't far but it was far enough for my leg to begin to ache.

"I need this." I said, looking down at the bubble bath he'd just prepared for me.

Standing there, I began to slowly remove my clothes, the best way that I could. I didn't want to bother Dom anymore tonight with my problems and my annoyance so I was trying my best.

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