“I feel you, but she was a track star, so you might have heard the name Nyomi Kurrie amongst the other athletes.”
He shook his head. “Doesn’t sound familiar, but that was a long time ago. I guess I’ll find out soon enough if the kid can live up to his reputation.”
Something about Ward’s tone rubbed me the wrong way, but I pushed it to the back of my mind and filed it in my mental rolodex.
“Hopefully, Kilo don’t do nothing to make the kid change his mind before the season starts,” Knox said jokingly.
“Shut the fuck up, nigga. I know how to be discreet.”
“Discreet about what?” Ward asked.
“Nothing,” I responded.
“It’s nothing because Nyomi won’t give you the time of day,” Knox teased.
“You pushed up on his mom?”
“In my defense, I didn’t know she was his mother when we hooked up.”
“Damn, you already hit it?”
“Chill, bruh. It wasn’t like that. I mean, it was, but she’s not like that. Our connection was strong, and shit happened. Oncewe realized what was what and who was who, she let me know she wasn’t interested in going any further.”
“Be careful with her kind,” Ward warned.
“Her kind? You just said you didn’t know her, so what ‘kind’ do you mean?”
“You know the kind . . . Women looking for a come up with a man with a little money and status. She sounds like that kind.”
I looked at Ward for a moment, wondering his angle.
“I don’t get that vibe from her,” was all I said in response.
“You know what? Now that I think about it, her name does sound familiar. I think she hooked up with a few teammates,” he informed me, but something in my gut told me he was lying.
“If that’s true, it was a long time ago. We all have a past,” I said.
“It doesn’t matter, anyway. As long as Nyeem is on the team, that woman ain’t fucking with you,” Knox said before laughing.
Thankfully, the conversation went in another direction, because I didn’t want to talk about Nyomi anymore. I felt compelled to defend her name and was prepared to argue with someone I’d known a lot longer than her.
Although Knox’s words were in fun, he spoke the truth. Nyomi claimed to want nothing to do with me, and I had no choice but to honor her wishes.
“You shouldn’t have been so mean when he tried to talk to you, and you would’ve known sooner,” Skye said.
It had been three days since Kilo approached me on the track, and I’d finally had time to have an in-depth conversation with my best friend. We’d talked, but I was still processing the information and wasn’t prepared to share until now.
“It wouldn’t have mattered. It’s been over two months since that night, so regardless, it was still too late to take any immediate precautions if that was something I wanted to do.”
“You’re right about that. Do you think you could be pregnant?”
“I had my period, so I don’t think so.”
“Was it normal?”
I thought about it for a moment and did recall it being lighter and shorter than usual, but it didn’t alarm me.
“Now that I think about it, it was lighter and shorter.”
