I frowned.
“But how did she know about you?”
In all that time, Ocean had never seen me with Kairi. Other than that night she popped up at my condo, they’d never crossed paths—at least that was what I thought.
Even that night she came to confront me, Ocean left long before Kairi did, so they didn’t even meet that night either.
“Because of the night I took you to the hospital. She said someone told her that we were together and wanted to know how I knew you. I didn’t want my family getting hurt, so I stayed away.”
I nodded, finally understanding why.
“But do you know how I finally got her to leave me alone?” she asked. I shook my head.
“I found out that she’s been sleeping with Sony and threatened to tell you.”
I sat there just blinking, trying to process what the fuck I just heard.
“Sony is fucking Ocean? His wife’s sister?”
From the moment I met Ocean, I didn’t like her and knew she was a hoe, but I damn sure didn’t expect she would fuck her sister’s husband.
Kairi nodded. “And I know River has no idea, but I know if she found out, she wouldn’t hide Sony’s whereabouts.”
That did make sense to me. Nothing like a woman scorned!
“That could actually work,” I said to myself, already sending a message to Oblique to find River.
Kairi just stood there in silence, looking at me. I cocked my head to the side, wondering why she was still standing there.
“I know that you hate me, but I can help with that,” Kairi offered. I looked from my phone to her.
“I don’t hate you,” I let her know.
“Yes, you do! I can see it in your eyes when you look at me!” She bawled like a baby, completely stunning me into silence.
I didn’t hate my wife; I was just fucking disappointed and angry at her. Kairi had a problem with keeping shit to herself and trying to fix every damn thing. Had she just told me what Sony was doing, I would have dealt with him without her trying and ultimately killing my brother.
My mouth fell when I realized that my actions lately had been showing her hate, which wasn’t what I intended to do.
I stood to my feet and approached her.
“Kairi, I don’t hate you, I’m just hurt.”
“I know, and I’m hurt too. It wasn’t supposed to happen like that, and if I could take it back, I would! But I can’t deal with you, hating me. I made a mistake, Makari. I was trying to protect you too!” she cried.
“How?” I hit back because that didn’t make sense to me.
“I knew if I told you or Shakur what happened that y’all would deal with it, but I knew that Sony is fucked up enough to get y’all killed. How was I supposed to live with that!”
As I stood there looking at her, I had to admit that she wasn’t wrong. Sony was more than capable of using his father to get me out of the way. Especially with Orlando treating me like I wasn’t his son, it would have been nothing for Viper to get rid of me.
All of this happened long before Sincere took me under his wings, so I didn’t have the protection as I did now.
“I just wanted him to leave me alone, and I made a mistake, Makari, but I didn’t know. If I even thought Hell could have been poisoned, I would have told you.”
Her shoulders were bouncing from how hard she was crying.
“I didn’t know, I swear!”
