“Something isn’t rig—”
“Don’t stop on my account, baby momma. The least you can do is give him a good time before he takes his last breath.” His voice sounded cold and menacing, and I was afraid to move.
“Whoa, Keyz. I don’t know what’s going on, but there seems to be a misunderstanding.”
“Naw, it ain’t a misunderstanding. Didn’t I tell you to stay away from my bitch? What made you think I was playing, huh?”
Zoe stood up with his hands in the air, and when I turned around, I realized why. Standing in the doorway of my closet was Keynauri with a blunt in one hand and a gun in the other. Shame crept over me as I found myself turned on by his presence when I should have been terrified.
“Keynauri, what are you doing here?” I asked, shifting my attention from his gun to his handsome face. My nipples were still erect, but it had nothing to do with Zoe anymore. This man was a danger to my heart and my pussy.
“I told you I would see you soon, baby. Here I am. Now the real question is, why did you think it was cool to play with me? Didn’tI tell you to keep your hot pocket away from the niggas in my circle? Now, you done put me in an awkward position because my homies gon’ be grieving this nigga, and I’ma have to stand there and pretend I’m not the one that sent him up yonder.”
“Aye, this doesn’t need to go that far, man. I promise, I wasn’t tryna step on anyone’s toes. I thought she was single; otherwise, I would never have pursued her. I got kids, man. You know I’m not on that type of time. I don’t want any smoke.” Zoe pleaded with tears in his eyes. A part of me was a little turned off by his tears, but I understood.
“You have a lot of nerve threatening my company as if you don’t have a girlfriend,” I fussed.
“What are you talkin’ about?”
Keynauri's face twisted with confusion and disdain as if I had spit on him. If I hadn’t seen him with my own eyes, I would have believed he had no idea what I was talking about.
“Don’t try to play with my intelligence. You and your model girlfriend were on every blog after you snuck off to Cali to support her. I wondered why you didn’t invite us, but I got my answer courtesy of the tea pages. You fucked the shit out of me and then hopped on a flight to be with your real woman. Now you’re breaking into my house and threatening people when you couldn’t even be honest with me,” I ranted, feeling upset all over again.
“Today is your lucky day, homeboy. I’m gonna let you leave out of here with your life, but please don’t take this blessing lightly. Get your shit and get the fuck out. Make sure you block and delete all of her contacts because I promise the next time I catch you even breathing in her direction, I’m shooting first,” Keynauri warned.
“T-thank you, man. I promise, you’ll never hear from me again.” Zoe bent over to put his pants back on, but Keynauri stopped him.
“Naw, grab all of your clothes and get out now. Your bitch ass can get dressed in your fucking car for all I care, but you ain’t doing it in here.”
My eyes bulged, but I chose to keep my thoughts to myself. Zoe hurriedly grabbed his clothes before racing out of the room.
“Don’t you fucking move,” he warned, turning to follow Zoe out of the room. Less than a minute later, I heard the front door slamming. The sound of tires screeching could be heard outside, and I shook my head. No one could have paid me to believe my night would end in such a chaotic way.
Keynauri swaggered back into the room with a glare on his face. I needed to be committed to a place with grippy socks because there was no reason I was fantasizing about him bending me over after the way he showed his ass.
“You got me fucked all the way up, but you’re gonna pay for it,” he spat.
“I guess the feeling is mutual. How do you think your girlfriend would feel about you being here, terrorizing another man on behalf of your children’s mother?”
“I should be asking you that question because you’re the only woman I have.” Keynauri shrugged, then sauntered over to my nightstand to set his gun on my dresser.
“Cut the bullshit. I went to her page and saw the two of you together in her stories. I’m not even trippin’ about it, but it would have been nice to know you were in a relationship. I never would have let you fuck me had I known.”
“This is gonna be my first and last time addressing this, so listen up close. I don’t have another girlfriend. Golden is someone my team linked me up with for publicity and nothing more. We’ve made a few appearances together in order to create buzz, but it doesn’t get much deeper than that. I’ve never been to her place, and she has never been to mine.”
“You never fucked her?”
“No. I never fucked that girl. She’s pretty, but we have nothing in common at all. My team thought it would help boost sales and gain attraction, and they were right. My songs are doing numbers, and the blogs are going crazy trying to catch us together. It’s all staged, though. You would have known all of this had you opened your mouth and asked instead of ignoring me.”
“Or maybe you could have told me what was going on instead of letting me find out from the internet. There I was thinking we were working toward getting back together, and you were in another state, hugged up with another bitch.”
Keynauri stood there staring at me. He stroked his beard while he appeared to be in deep thought. The awkward silence loomed over us as I shifted from one foot to the other.
“You’re right. I should have told you. It wasn’t necessarily a secret, but I see now that I could have avoided this misunderstanding. I apologize. It won’t happen again.”
He stepped into my space, while he continued to smoke his blunt. Leaning down, he blew the smoke into my face.
“You almost sent me back to prison tonight. I can’t believe you thought I was gonna let you give my pussy away. You outcho rabid ass mind, Cocoa Puffs.” Keynauri grumbled.
