“What the hell are you doing at my house?”
“When d-did you have a baby, Diamond?”
“None of your business.” I rolled my eyes. He knew damn well I didn’t have a child. He’d seen me plenty of times since I left him. “Why are you here, Tristan?”
“I saw the shit on Pikz.”
“Okay, and?” I frowned.
I knew he’d seen it because he not only commented on my pictureandthe ones on the What’s Tea page, but he’d also called, left voicemails, texted and DM’d me. They all went ignored because he wasn’t my man and I didn’t owe his ass an explanation about shit.
“You went from me to a nigga like Loco?” he asked in disbelief. “He’s like ten times worse than I am, Diamond, come on.”
“It’s none of your business who I deal with, Tristan.” I rolled my eyes. “And if you think you’re going to come here and get in my head about him, then you can think again.” I folded my arms in front of me and shifted my weight to one side. “I know who I’m with.”
“He’s a gang member, Diamond. He’s dangerous. I’ve heard things about him.”
“You need to leave.” I pointed.
“Diamond, come on,” he pleaded, taking a step forward. “I’ve been begging you for another chance and you go deal with a known serial cheater and killer.”
“Makhai is not a killer.” I defended, rolling my eyes.
He was crazy without a doubt, and something always made me believe his threats when he said he’d hurt a nigga for playing with him, but I didn’t getkillerfrom him. Despite his antics and mouth, he was very sweet.
To me at least.
“Ha! I know you don’t really believe that shit,” he shook his head. “He is a notorious gang member, and you know Collin is my best friend,” he said referring to his longtime friend from school who was now a detective with ACPD. “He said there are multiple open homicides that happened when he was here in town. What do you think that means?”
“That Collin needs to focus on doing his damn job instead of talking to a civilian about it.” I rolled my eyes. “I’m pretty sure he’s not supposed to be talking to you about open investigations.”
“That doesn’t matter,” he reached for my hand. “I’m trying to warn you about him before you’re caught up in some shit you can’t get out of.”
“I don’t need you to look out for me, nigga, I need you to leave!”
I tried pulling my hand away, but his grip tightened. I narrowed my eyes at him then quickly kneed him in his balls. He released me and doubled over in pain. I left him there, crying like the bitch that he was, locking my door once I was inside. He stayed out there beating on it for a few seconds before he finally left.
I was pissed about him popping up at my house, spewing all of his nonsense and lies. Anyone could have heard him and got Makhai in trouble.
What if what he was saying was true though?
I couldn’t stop thinking about it, so I pulled Keona’s stroller with me to the living room, took her out and situated her in her swing, then I searched the news sites to look up the so-called open homicides. I gasped when I saw that there were in fact four people killed recently. The investigations were open, and they were urging people to come forward if they had any information.
I searched in Crescent Falls to see if they had any open cases and was a little horrified to see there were even more there. They were currently investigating a mass shooting at a repast that took place months ago at a park.
Makhai didn’t do this.
Did he?
And if he did, could I be with him?
While I researched and overthought, Kabria called. I quickly answered and filled her in on what happened with Tristan and what he’d told me. Her ass didn’t bat a damn lash when I told her the shit.
“I don’t see what the issue is,” she said. “It actually adds to his sex appeal if he did it.”
“Kabria, what?” I frowned. “I’m being serious. I had sex with himandagreed to be in a relationship with him. What if he really did these things? One of these people was burned alive!”
“Then you better not piss him off.”
