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Queen

"So what made you come to New York?" Clarence flipped between the TV channels

I sighed. "Honestly, I just wanted to get away from Texas. I went through a bad break up. I felt like everybody was being fake towards me. I just needed a fresh start and my cousin agreed to come with me."

He nodded and sat back. "I feel you. Nothing wrong with that. Who you stay with?" He glanced over at me

"My sister. Dave knows her. Her name is Cardi."

"I know her." He laughed. "Shorty crazy. Cool as hell though."

"That's her." I smiled

My phone vibrated and Clarence grabbed it before I could.

"So you just gon go through my phone?" I asked

"No passcode, easy access." He shrugged and scrolled through my messages

"Give me my phone." I laughed and attempted to get my phone but he blocked me.

" I laughed and attempted to get my phone but he blocked me

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"Who's Derek?"

"A guy from my job."

"That's dead.

I finally grabbed my phone to see I had only gotten a notification from Instagram.

"What he need your number for? Y'all work together, he can talk to you then."

"Maybe he wanna talk after work." I shrugged.

He shook his head. "Nah. Like I said, that's out."

"That's out." I copied him and laughed.

Kim

Dave put all the grocery bags in the car then got in himself.

"You're such a gentleman." I laughed

"Yea. Only for you." He pulled out of the parking lot

"So I'm leaving next week." I looked over at Dave

I'm not really leaving, I just wanna see his reaction.

He glanced over at me then back at the road. "Yea. Aight. We'll see about that."

"What you mean?" I shifted in the seat

"You ain't going nowhere." He shook his head

"And why not?"

"Cause you mine and I said so."

"I'm yours? When that happen?"

"Don't play with me. You know you been mine even though you fucking with that other nigga. I'm bout to dead that though. All you need is me." He laughed

"Oh whatever." I joined his laughter. "You got all them hoes but worried about me."

"Correction, I had hoes. I been cutting them off back to back. You my only hoe now." He ran his hand across my thigh

I punched his arm and he laughed. "Keep calling me a hoe."

"Aight. Chill. I was just playing. But forreal though, I really haven't been fucking with them like that since I met you. I honestly haven't fucked no one in two months now. I only got head and I told you about that. I felt guilty as fuck afterwards, like I was cheating or something."

"What's wrong with you? I know I didn't feel guilty after I fucked Chris." I lied

He slammed on the brakes and the seatbelt nearly choked me. I looked over at him and he looked mad as hell. I laughed slightly and he reached over and grabbed me by my neck, pulling me close to his face.

"What you say?" He looked at me

"I said I fucked-"

He cut me off by squeezing my neck a little harder and I unconsciously moaned. He smirked and kept his hand there.

"You fucked him?"

"No." I bit my bottom lip

He leaned in and kissed me before letting me go.

"Freak ass." He laughed.

I shrugged and fixed my seatbelt. I grabbed his bag out the backseat and searched for my jar and the backwoods.

"Why you got your phone in here? Don't want your hoes bothering you?" I smirked

"Cut it. I thought I had left it at the house."

"Somebody blowing you up."

"What it say?"

I unlocked the phone and clicked on his messages.

Jay
C-13
9:45PM

Jay
C-13!
10:02PM

Missed call from Jay

Jay
Nigga. Tf is you doing?!
10:18PM

I turned the phone around to show Dave.

"Shit." He lowly cursed. "I gotta make a stop real quick. Thats cool?"

"Sure."

Dave did and illegal U-turn in the middle of the road. A couple minutes later, we pulled up to a house that had boarded up windows. He left the car running and hopped out.

Dave

I jogged to the back of the house and walked inside. Jay was pacing back and forth

"Yo! Where the fuck you been?" Jay walked over to me

"I was at the store. My phone was in the car. What happened?"

"Them niggas came trying to start shit bro. How the fuck they know where our spot is?" Jay yelled

"Who?"

"Rocko and his niggas from Maryland. He talking bout he coming to New York to take over."

I looked down at the blood splattered on his shirt. "The fuck happen with that?" I pointed

He looked down the back up. "I told you shit got crazy. They rushed in looking for you and then started shooting. I ain't pussy so I shot back. I hit one of them then they left."

"Fuck." I ran my hands down my face. "Call Dom. Pack all this shit up, we gotta move everything out of here tonight. Where's G? Wasn't he supposed to be here with you?" I looked around

"That nigga dipped. I don't know where he went."

"Uh huh." I nodded. "I'll handle that. Just get everything out of here and take it to the spot in Flatbush."

"I got you." Jay walked away

I left out the house and got back in the car.

"You ok?" Kim asked

I nodded. "Yeah. Just a little setback nothing major."

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