Kennedy stood and outstretched a hand toward him, putting her problems on hold to tackle his. Relic stared at it but, eventually, grabbed her hand and lugged to his feet as if he were too weary to fight her about staying upstairs. Seeing the power Relic exuded slowly leaving his body as the days passed pissed her the hell off, but seeing his folks drain it out of him more than his oppositions doubled her irritation.
“This is your damn house. Why the hell do you have to hide?” she snapped, exiting the room to dash down the stairs. Before her feet could hit the foyer, her body flailed backward against Relic’s chest after he tugged her by the collar of her athleisure jacket.
“Cool it,” he gritted, spinning her around to face him. “I had a long day as it is. Don’t take yo ass in that kitchen and make me snap. What are you to me?”
“Your bitch.”
Relic’s mouth twitched before he brushed a hand over his lustrous waves. “That’s in the bedroom, Larenn. I need a partner right now. What’d I tell you? Pick up on my cues and do what?”
“Follow your lead, even if I don’t like or understand what you’re doing. So, you basically want me to shut the hell up.”
“Exactly. Come on.”
He placed a hand where she’d stashed the phone, and she dodged his touch before walking away while inhaling a breath at the narrow escape. As soon as she padded into the kitchen with Relic close behind her, Jahleel gasped and hopped up from his seat to give her a hug.
“You came out of the room, finally! Did Relic tell you the kind of fish I caught? It’s a bass. Look!”
He rushed her to the kitchen island where Shabu was shirtless, scaling two gigantic bass and three average sized ones, while Navy sat on top of the island next to him with her arm cast in a mold and wrapped with a pink bandage. Titan stood beside them, recording as his brother did the hard labor.
“Oh, wow. They are huge, Jah!” Kennedy beamed at him in pride.
“Yep, and Relic bought me a chessboard because I did a good job. He said, you know how to play. Can you teach me today?”
“It’ll take a while for you to get the hang of it, but we can start later once the house dies down.”
“In other words, once our loud asses bounce,” Titan quipped, making Kennedy laugh. Savvy sucked her teeth from where she stood at the counter, dicing up vegetables with Judith.
“We are not loud. Relic’s house is just too quiet.”
“Agreed.” Kennedy endorsed her friend before going over to give her a hug. Savvy giggled as she leaned away, so her face wasn’t anywhere near Kennedy.
“Girl, aren’t you sick? Don’t bring those germs over here. My babies catch everything way too easily. I already gave Indie medicine for being on that water today. That’s why he’s knocked out.”
“Good point, Savvy. She needs to be where we won’t catch whatever she has.” Judith spoke up, spinning on her heels to address Kennedy with a phony smile. “Don’t you agree, honey?”
Kennedy curled her upper lip in disdain so damn fast that she couldn’t catch it. Judith mirrored it while flinging her gorgeous sister locs over a shoulder, and the warning Relic had given Kennedy was the only thing that kept her from blurting the first retort that came to her mind. A curt smile plastered on her face as her austere stare pinned on Judith.
“Actually, I don’t agree, Ms. Judith. Jahleel wants me down here, so I’m not goinganywhere ‘til him or Relic says otherwise. Is that an issue with anyone else?”
“Nope!” Jahleel answered on everyone’s behalf before leering around for an objection.
Shabu and Titan sputtered laughs but shot both their hands in the air, dodging the smoke. Judith cut her eyes at her grandson but bit her tongue as she turned to continue prepping their veggies. Kennedy made a mental note that Jahleel held a certain power when it came to his grandma for whatever reason.
“Larenn, come and sit down. I’ll warm you a bowl of soup.”
Relic called her over, and she knew it was to keep her and his mother separated. He offered her the bar stool he stood in front of before sauntering to the stove to grab the plastic container of soup Jahleel’s sweet self had requested for her. While Relic had gone radio silent after meeting her parents, Jahleel had stillreached out every day to check if she was alright. It perplexed Kennedy how her boys were like night and day.
She internally cringed after realizing she’d referred to Relic as hers when he was far from that besides during the times she made him cum. Her pussy throbbed at the mere thought, but she shook away the memories of the last time he’d been inside her, and watched as he meandered to her with a bowl and spoon in his hands. Relic sat both in front of her and stood there as if he planned to watch while she finished every drop.
“Eat,” he ordered, and she reluctantly picked up her spoon. “I need you better because we have shit to handle in a few days.”
“You act like I don’t know that,” she muttered under her breath.
Her eyes cast down on the soup that looked delicious but sketchy due to who’d prepared it. Kennedy scooped a spoonful and stared at the foreign meal before she shoved it toward Relic’s mouth, causing his head to jerk back with a swiftness.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“Relic, open your damn mouth! I’ll eat the soup after you taste it to make sure it’s not poison. I don’t trust your momma, sorry.”
