Defending Our Empire

Daddy............Meet Baby Daddy

*Forgive my tardiness with this book. I've been going through the motions and finally had a breakthrough*

"You got the fucking nerves to tell me to calm down while you out here fucking a whole ass cum dumpster!?" Tiana snapped at Keem. "Babe look I'm sorry okay but it's probably not even my kid!" Tiana stood back, her eyes bucked. "I'm finna beat yo ass!" She spat as she kicked her heels off. "Hey hey hey!" Dre snapped, grabbing Tiana and holding her back. "T. I know I fucked up. I regret it. I'm sorry but I don't think she really pregnant baby," Keem told her. "Nigga are you dead ass!? You don't see something anything else wrong with this fucking situation other than the bitch being pregnant?" She spewed, trying her hardest to get out of Dre's hold.

"What you mean?" He tossed out. "I-.........let me go Dre! I'm so done. I need you to go back to your mama house cause I refuse to be put through this bullshit," Tiana voiced, now appearing to be calm. "You really gonna kick me out?.........T........T.......Baby.....Tiana......" Keem called out, chasing behind Tiana as she stormed off. The sound of a hard slap echoed in the hallway followed by Keem walking back to the studio with a handprint on his face. "You don't have a relationship like that do you? I can't take another toxic ass Lyon," Dre asked, ignoring her original question. "I mean I'm Bipolar and had a baby with my old weed dealer but I don't think we're like that," she said.

"It seems like Lucious and Cookie can't have a normal child," Dre voiced. "What's wrong with your brothers and Haven?" Reign said, still getting used to having siblings. "What's not wrong with them?" Dre said, getting a text from Giselle. "I gotta run but I'll see you later sis," See said, heading towards the elevator. Reign smiled to herself as she finally started to feel whole, for once in her life. "What are you two talking about?" She asked, laying her head against Trey's arm. "Adding on an addition to his house," Trey responded. "How many rooms do you need at the mansion?" Reign asked not seeing the point.

"The guest house. Ever since my father came back It's become apparent that he's over more often than I'd like and I would prefer my parents not being in my house in front of my daughter," Lucious explained. "You don't think Haven would just go to the guest house?" Lu shook his head with a chuckle. "If that little girl makes it 2 miles to the house then I'd be amazed," he said. Both Trey and Reign's mouths dropped. "Ummmm can y'all go bond somewhere else? We're working or at least trying to," Mal spat. "Damn rude ass," Reign tossed out. "Thank you! Love you!" Jamal yelled at them as they went with Lucious to take Kenny back to Dre.

"Alright so tell me about y'all selves. I need to be able to tell the difference," Mal voiced. "Well basically we are our names. Usually I'm writing and she's always humming something. She's the Harmony and I'm the Lyric," Lyric explained. "Oh okay. Yall really lived up to your names. So y'all got some music that y'all want to record?" Mal asked. "I do!" Harmony spilled with the quickness. She pulled out her phone, playing a song that she recorded herself singing acapella. "Okay okay. I got something perfect for that," Mal voiced, pulling up an instrumental on his laptop. Harmony started humming her words over the music, feeling the flow. "Get in the booth," Mal told her.

Lyric watched her sister, happy that they now had the opportunity of a lifetime. "What about you?" Jamal questioned as he got everything ready. "What about me?" "What do you have hidden?" He tossed out, counting down for Harmony. "I.... I'm not hiding anything." Mal side eyed Lyric. "Girl don't play coy. I can feel your energy. You got some bangers laying around somewhere. Why are you hiding them?" Mal asked. Lyric looked down then up at her sister. There was a part of her that Jamal could sense she was hiding. Maybe embarrassed or scared, but either way he was planning on getting her to relax enough to tell him.

At the Hospital

Cookie walked into Reggie's hospital room and let out a deep breath. "Reta? What are you doing here?" He asked, looking away from the tv. "I wanted to talk to you alone before you come home," she told him. He smirked, sitting up in the bed, preparing himself for this talk. "What is it baby girl?" He asked, signaling her to sit down. She sat down her purse and looked at her father. How did she start this conversation? "I need to know how you feel," she simply stated. "Feel about what?" He asked. "About me and..... Lucious. We have a family daddy and the last time you and I saw each other......" She trailed off, absolutely hating how they left things.