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I nodded before I looked at old dude. “Call it a gut feeling.”

“We’ll talk about this shit, but right now let’s handle buddy.” He pushed his gun to point at the man whose presence we both ignored for the last fifteen seconds of bickering.

“Who sent you to my shit?” I sat on my coffee table directly in front of him.

“That ain’t how this works. Kill me because yeen getting nothing out of me.”

“Shit yeen said nothing but a word,” Malik spoke.

Malik was about to pull the trigger when he flinched.

“Fuck!” he yelled out with his eyes wide open. “What are you waiting for?”

Both Malik and I busted up laughing. He thought this was about to be painless. Like it would be quick, but he had another thing coming if he thought this would be anything of that nature.

“Bitch you finna feel this.” Malik pulled back and clocked his ass with the butt of the gun.”

Of course I pulled him off my couch by his collar. The last thing I needed was this nigga’s blood on it. Then I tossed his scrawny ass to the ground and pulled my own gun out.

“You waiting on this shit to be quick, but on my mama it’ll be slow and probably the most pain you’ve ever felt in yo’ life.”

“He’s my brother man.” He bitched up attempting to cover his face.

“Yo’ brother, who?” Malik asked.

“He should know, his sister is in on it.” He threw his chin in my direction.

For the second time tonight a nigga was mentioning my sister and for the most part I swear I couldn’t say I was shocked. Of course I didn’t expect it, but it wasn’t the first time she went against me. Hell the last time I ended up with a bullet.

Old boy was about to speak, but I heard my door opening before it did. I figured it was Gram, but Malik still aimed at the door until his face was shown.

“Damn what did I miss?” he stepped through the door eyes bouncing from person to person.

“Too much to fucking explain. Take this nigga to the spot. Ain’t nobody finna body his ass right here.” Then his gun was aimed back down at old boy. “Get yo’ bitch ass up.”

With beady eyes, he did slowly but what he wasn’t expecting was for Gram to clock his in the back if his head while he was too focused on Malik. He fell right back down to the floor, this time knocked out.

“Can’t be putting conscious niggas in my trunk.” Then like a pure fucking psychopath, he leaned down and jabbed a full syringe of something in the man’s neck.. “That’ll keep him out during transport.”

Then he pulled out some zip ties from his back pocket and started subduing the nigga, while myself and Malik watched in complete fucking amazement. He noticed us watching him when he was about done. “What?”

“What do you mean what, nigga? You just pulled a whole ass serial killer pack out of yo’ back pocket.” Malik was staring at this nigga completely appalled while I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Look, working for y’all’s unhinged asses means I gotta be prepared for whatever. At all times.”

I shrugged because lowkey he was right. Niggas had to do some heavy shit sometimes.

“How you think I got old girl out the back of the shop without asking? Sure as hell didn’t ask nicely.”

Chapter 16

Schoolin’ Life

REE

They released my sister from the hospital this evening with strict instructions to take it easy. Knowing Empress that would be impossible, but we were all going to make sure she was good. Instead of going to Zero’s house we ended up at hers, I didn’t know the reason behind that decision, but I was fine with it. I had my own room and space in her house from when I did stay with her for a brief period of time. I moved out, but it was still my space. Of course Malik and I stopped to get food, while my sister and Zero went on to the house.

We chilled and hung out for a while before she and Zero went to her bedroom and I found myself in the basement in the movie room waiting for Malik to get out of the shower. At this point I had decided that I was lowkey going to crowd my sister’s space until she had these babies. She had a lot going on mentally, physically, and emotionally. I just wanted to be near her and make things easiest as possible for her. That’s why I didn’t give the bitch a chance to tell me no at the hospital when I told her I was moving in. Empress was strong, but even the strongest person needed some support sometimes. I had alreadyaccepted that I’d keep running the shop for her for a little while, which was fine with me, because she already had a manager but just needed me to sign off on certain things and make a few decisions. It was no big deal.

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