Page 44 of Another Night With Me

“So what you thinkin’?”

“I always said that nigga couldn’t have pulled that shit off alone.” Yaro cryptically said with his eyes glued forward. “Sonni might have went to college but the nigga wasn’t book smart.”

”You thought it was Riker.” I answered.

”I did but that nigga ain’t slick enough to pull it off twice. Plus we ain’t fucked with that nigga in years.”

“So you thinkin’ Mama got something to do with it?”

“Sometihn’ ain’t right with her and at this point I ain’t puttin’ nothing past her.”

“I feel you. We finna put eyes on her?” I said. Looking at at Yaro. We always were on one accord when it came to how we moved.

”You already know. But ah I think you gotta handle some other shit,” Yaro said nodding his head forward.

I turned to look out the front windshield and I felt my blood boiling. Yaro was creeping up my driveway and a blue suv sat in the middle of my driveway. Yanna was coming out of my house with her Pink duffle bag in one arm and Zuriyah’s care seat in the other. I didn’t wait for Yaro stopped before I hopped out his car.

“What the fuck is you doing?” I barked startling Yanna, who looked like a deer in fucking headlights.

Chapter 20

A’yanna Joseph

2 A.M.

The longer I sat in this house the madder I got. Initially everyone didn’t leave right away. Frankee talked me off the edge. Her presence kept me calm when I really wanted to tear Niko’s house up. Even Niko’s brother’s helped keep my mind off Niko and Maddie. I appreciated how they all embraced me even when Niko wasn’t around. We all laughed and kicked it for another hour before another situation arose between Reya and Nakeem. Nakeem’s disrespectful side reared it’s ugly head when he saw Reya texting another nigga. Apparently he didn’t like that, he called her every name but her first name. Which made her leave causing Nakeem’ kids to get flustered. Then Nakeem and Titon kind of exchanged words when Titon told him he was wrong for how he talked to Reya. Nakeem stormed out after that. Titon left with Tianna. Then Yaro, Frankee and their daughters left because it was getting late. Leaving me alone to stew on my own thoughts.

I was fine for a few hours since Zuriyah woke up hungry, then shitted all over the place. I had to give Zuriyah a bath, fed her greedy ass again before she was ready to fall back asleep. When I got in the shower myself that’s when my mind really started to get the best of me. I started feeling like Niko was tryna play me for a bird. I kept picturing him laid up with Maddie rubbing her stomach and tell her he loved her. While I’m sitting over here like a fucking dummy waiting for the nigga to call me. Which he never did so I blocked his stupid ass because if anything he should have been blowing my phone down to apologize for not defending our daughter. When midnight hit and I still hadn’t heard from him. I started packing all my shit up that I’d brought over here. I didn’t even grabbed any of Zuriyah’s because she already had hella stuff at my house. Niko could keep all the cheap ass shit he’d bought. Granted nothing he bought was cheap but I didn’t care I was mad as fuck. It took me a minute to call for a, Ryde, basically a taxi service in Beaumont. I was trying to give Niko a chance to show up before I went hte fuck hom and ignored him for a few days. I didn’t care if it seemed childish or not. When it came to protecting Zuriyah I would go against whoever. Niko let Maddie say one too many things about our daughter and I wasn’t feeling him.

By two I was over it and Zuriyah and I were waiting for our Ryde drive by the front door. If Niko wanted to be with Maddie then he was free to do what he wanted I wouldn’t be around for it. We could figure out some kind of schedule for him to get Zuriyah on his own time. That’s how I should have gone about this in the first fucking place. I hated taking my baby out this late but I was getting the fuck it of here. As I watched the Ryde share driver pull up I opened the door.

“Yanna?” The male driver asked getting out of the car to open the back door for me.

”Yeah“ I replied as I smiled at him politely.

“You need help or you got it?” The Ryde driver flirt with me. I can admit he was nice on the eyes but triggered now my mind was far from entertaining another nigga. I slide Zuriyah into the backseat and was I was halfway in the car.

”If you don’t mind putti-“ My words got caught in my throat.

“What the fuck is you doing?” Niko barked at me his voice filled with rage as he held his slightly sagging jeans up with one hand as he sped walking in my direction.

“Huh?” I fearfully asked clueless on what else I should say. The anger in Niko’s eyes was something I had never see before. He looked like a raging bull as he approached us.

”Is everything okay?” The Ryde driver asked, looking at me nervously.

“Umm honestly if I were you I would hurry up and get in the fucking car!” I hurriedly screeched to the Ryde drive trying to get inside the car before Niko got to me.

I was too slow, Niko's enraged face was all I seen as I watched him effortlessly lift me out the car. “Get the fuck out this car,” He growled through clenched teeth.

“My dude don’t grab her like that!” the Ryde driver said, pulling at Niko’s arm, causing him to almost drop me but he was able to keep his grip on me.

“Bitch! Don’t put yo’ mutha fuckin’ hands on me!” I heard Niko bark as I looked over and saw the Ryde driver's nose gushing with blood.

“Niko!” I yelled in horror trying to get back to my feet.

“Don’t scream my name! Yo ho’ bringing niggas to my house?” Niko sat me on the ground giving me a death stare. “Get my fuckin’ daughter out that car!” He demanded as he hiked up his pants. He focused his attention back on the Ryde driver. Viciously punching him in the face.

“No, no, no Niko calm down!” I said grabbing his arm to prevent him from hitting the Ryder drive again.