“He…”
She got cut off by Key pushing herself inside.
“What the hell, Pryce? What the fuck is going on?”
I used my sleeve to close and lock the door. “Need you to take these.” Key handed me the bag, and I handed it to her.
Peeking inside, she looked back up, confused. “Pregnancy tests?” she questioned.
“Yeah.”
“No. I’m not doing that.”
“You doing it, or I’ma have my cousin beat you until you’re unrecognizable,” I said simply with no room open for interpretation. “However you wanna do it. Either way the tests will be taken.”
She turned to walk away, and I followed behind her to make sure she didn’t try to pull no slick shit.
“I don’t need you to watch me,” she said, attempting to close the bathroom door.
“But I am.”
I watched as she pulled her shorts down and peed on one stick at a time and set them on the counter. She didn’t even bother putting down a piece of tissue to sit them on.
“You could’ve just asked me if I was pregnant, ya know.”
“And you could’ve not played these petty ass kid games, so we wouldn’t be here in the first place.”
Two minutes passed, and both tests read negative. Pulling out my phone, I snapped a picture.
“You got what you wanted. You can leave now,” she said.
Nodding, I walked back out into her living room where Key was waiting.
“She not pregnant. Work her.”
That was all Key needed to hear before she sent a right hook across Alexis’ temple. Caught off guard, she stumbled. Key let her shake it off, but when she didn’t hit back immediately, Key hit her twice more, another right to the temple and a left hook to the eye. I stood back and watched as Alexis attempted towindmill for her life. Only that didn’t work with Key. She grew up fighting us, so I knew Alexis was no match for her.
I let it go on for a good minute and a half before calling Key off.
“Find you something safe to do moving forward, Alexis. Cause the next time you gon’ have to fight a bullet.”
Leaving her apartment with the picture of the negative tests in my gallery, I went to drop Key off then headed straight for Dai’s house. I wasn’t sleeping by myself no more, and if I had to go to her to make sure that I didn’t, then so be it.
CHAPTER 13
Make Things Clear
ADAI
Tonight, I stood on business, knowing that Pryce would move with a sense of urgency to get this situation resolved. This Alexis chick was playing a dirty game, and I hated it for her. Pryce didn’t play fair when he felt like his back was against the wall, and the fact that his second weird run in with her was with me, I knew he was hot. Which is why he should’ve kept his dick in his pants in the first damn place.
That was the thing about most men. They didn’t vet women well, and most of the time, they only thought with the head that had a mushroom tip and not the one on top of their neck. In the back of my mind, I knew Alexis wasn’t pregnant, but I wasn’t a fool. Knowing and having clear cut proof was two different things. And as pissed as Pryce was when he dropped me off earlier, I knew he’d find his way here tonight.
It was the exact reason why I ended up back downstairs on the couch after working upstairs. When I heard the knock at the door, I got right up to open it. He stood on the other side of it, leaning against the doorframe like he was on a serious mission.
“I’m not sleeping alone tonight,” he said, placing his hand over my stomach and guiding me backward until he was fully inside the house.
Kicking the door shut with his foot, he locked it then turned back to me.
