Page 15 of No Remedy for Love

“Yeah, I need you to wear them bitches tonight. Just the shoes.” Mav winked while licking his lips in anticipation.

The salesman that was helping her looked embarrassed but he switched back into professional mode real quick. He didn’t know that Remi was with her man. Hell, she was doing more flirting than he was so that came as a shock.

“Okay, I’ll take these.” Remi took the shoe off and handed it to him.

“Feel free to look around some more. I’ll have these at the register for you.” He took the shoe and walked away.

“Don’t get nobody fucked up in here, Remi,” Mav warned while giving her a stern look.

“Boy, relax, five more minutes and I probably would have had them for free.”

“You don’t need another nigga for nothing. That’s what I’m here for. That’s the shit that I be talking about. You be too friendly sometimes and I ain’t with that shit.”

“My daddy is dead and gone, my nigga. I don’t need a replacement.”

“I’m not trying to be your daddy, but that shit is mad disrespectful.”

“I didn’t even know that you were behind me.”

“The fuck do that mean, Remi. So, that makes it okay because you didn’t know I was there?”

“Man, I’m not trying to argue with you, Mav. Come pay for my shit and let’s go.”

“You better watch how you talking to a nigga, girl.”

Mav was pissed but he followed her to the register and paid for her items. They left the store in silence and stayed that way until they got to the parking lot. Mav stopped by the parking lot attendant to get his parking validated while Remi snatched his keys and her bags before walking away.

A few minutes later, he was getting into his car but he didn’t see Remi in the front passenger seat. He smiled when he looked in the back seat and saw her sitting back there wearing the shoes that he’d just got her. She looked sexy as fuck with her bottom lip pinched in between her teeth. Her eyes stayed on his as she reached underneath her dress and pulled off her thong. She had Mav in a trance when she lifted the dress up over her head and threw it up front. She didn’t have on a bra, so she was completely naked except for the shoes.

“Just the shoes right?” Remi asked, repeating what he’d just told her in the store. She spread her legs, giving him a perfect view of her freshly waxed kitty.

“Damn.” Mav couldn’t stop staring as she spread her lower lips, giving him a glimpse of her pierced pearl. That was all that he needed to see.

Mav reclined his seat and picked Remi up with one hand. His windows were darkly tinted but he didn’t care either way. He sat Remi on his face and ate her up like she was his last meal.Afterwards, he took her out to dinner before going home to Kiva and his son.

“Girl, Mav is a muthafucking lie! His daddy was in that truck by himself and Mav was nowhere around. You already know that Mark was gon’ lie for him!” Kerri yelled, speaking of Mav’s father.

She and her daughter were at Nessa’s house watching as her sister curled the quick weave that she’d just put in their cousin’s hair. Kiva was off on Mondays but she sometimes made extra cash by doing house calls. Nessa was almost bald from wearing so many sew-ins, so she never went to the shop. She didn’t mind paying her cousin a little extra and she loved being in the comfort of her own home.

“Mav know he wrong for that. He was not out there at all. Not in the truck or the store. His daddy was alone,” Kerri’sdaughter, Unique, spoke up and co-signed what her mother was saying.

“Look, I’m not saying that y’all are lying, but I wasn’t there to see the shit. Y’all saying he wasn’t and he’s saying he was. I’m not that pressed to catch Mav in a lie. Whatever I need to know will come to me but I’m not going look for it.”

“Exactly. Nobody is saying that y’all are lying but she’s in a fucked up position. It’s either believe her man or believe her family. It ain’t as simple as y’all are trying to make it seem.” As usual, Nessa was trying to be the voice of reason.

“She believed her man and that’s real simple to comprehend.” Kerri shrugged like it was no big deal.

“It’s not that I believed him but what do you want me to do Kerri? It ain’t like I was there or saw pictures of him doing wrong. You want me to just say fuck whatever Mav say and just believe you.”

“I don’t have a reason to lie though.”

“And you think Mav does?” Nessa asked.

“Obviously, he do because he did lie. That’s my lil sister. I’m not trying to see her get fucked over again. But it’s cool, I won’t say shit about what I see no more.”

“I appreciate you looking out Kerri but shit ain’t as cut and dry as you’re trying to make it seem. And like I just said, I don’t have to go looking for nothing. The truth will be revealed eventually.”

“Honestly, I think the nigga is fucking with Remi again.”

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