Page 17 of Her Loyalty

"You don't fuckin' care about me." He spat and I stopped in my tracks because it triggered me.

"Are you serious right now?" I asked before bursting into tears. I was doing so much behind closed doors, just for us to be together and he had the nerve to tell me that I didn't care about him.

"You don't know how much I go through for you and you have the nerve to accuse me of stuff and tell me I don't care about you?"

"Really?" I went on, bawling.

"T, chill out. It ain't even that deep. You ain't gotta cry."

"No, fuck you!" I spat, wiping my tears as he licked his lips, looking away from me.

"You gon' say fuck me?" He asked as I stood there, trying to get myself together. This was only partially his fault but I was simply taking everything out on him. I was sick of living life like this.

"Yes, fuck you, Dominic. I'm so done with this." I raged, just mad at the world.

"Yeah aight." He scoffed.

"Go ahead home before I get out of character with you, T." He flagged me off, making his way up the staircase.

"I ain't even tryna go there with you, probably just need some dick or something."

"I'a call you when you cool off."

"Fuck you!" I yelled again, leaving out of the front door.

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6.

Tiana

20 minutes later

Pulling up to my house, I sat in my car for a while, bawling my eyes out. Dom and I rarely got into it but when we did, it always hurt me the most. His words really had an effect on me because I knew that most of them were true. I knew I was lying, I knew I was cheating and deep down inside, I felt like he knew too.

I just wanted all of this to simply be over.

"Please be over soon." I spoke quietly to myself, trying to figure out ways I could get out of this.

Breaking me away from my thoughts, my phone rang loudly as I looked down at it. Of course it was Dom calling and though I was still upset with him, I couldn't even bring myself to ignore him. I wouldn't dare.

"Hello." I spoke softly, wiping my tears away.

"Baby." His raspy voice came through the phone and I relunctantly broke down into tears again.

I couldn't help it.

"Tiana." He called as I continued. Just letting it all out at this point. I couldn't stop. It was so much more than just this argument weighing on my mind.

I couldn't take it anymore. I was breaking.

"Listen to me." He spoke up as I slowly got myself together.

"Stop crying." He spoke sternly.

"You hear' me?" He asked and I sniffed a couple times before finally doing as told.

"I hear you, babe." I cleared my throat, getting myself together.

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