"Are you serious right now?" He squints his eyes at me, and my brothers finally let me go.

"Ask me that question again, and I'll show you just how fucking serious I am." I snarl at him.

Phoenix shakes his head and puts his hands up in surrender. "Look man, I thought you understood what was about to go down. I told you it needed to look real. If I hadn't let him touch her in the least, he'd have known that something else was going on. We had to make it seem like he was the one in charge. If things got too heated or if her life was in danger, I would've intervened."

"Leo, I know that shit was hard to watch, but you know Nisa; she can take care of herself," Tella says, turning in my direction.

"If she could take care of herself, she wouldn't be in this fucking situation in the first place. She's my fucking Ol' Lady, and I'm not going to let her deal with this shit on her own just so we can get some information."

"Nah, man, it's not like that." Rumble starts but his brother interjects.

"It's exactly like that. If there's anyone in here who can get under Marc's skin it's Nisa. I've seen firsthand just how obsessed the man is with her. I've seen how crazed he gets when she does something that he thinks is against him and also how fucking delusional he is when it comes to her. Ya'll ain't going to win this fight with him coming at him in the usual way. You have to use her to get to him. I don't want her hurt either but right now you're just going to have to trust that she's going to be okay in the line of fire. If you can't then this shit is definitely not going to work." Phoenix shrugs and takes another step away. Probably fearful that I'm going to come after him again.

Lord knows I want to.

But I can't he's been straight with me since he's been here. There's nothing more that I can do.

"You bastards better make sure that something comes of this. I'm not going to let her do this for nothing." I scan my eyes over the boys only to see them all nod.

With that, I turn and head toward my room. The anger has died down but the sizzling jealousy that I've been feeling since I watched Marc kiss my woman is still running rampant in my body.

I'm not a man who sits with his feelings well and it's time that Nisa figure that out.

Leaving the boys outside to work on our issue I walk into my room and see Nisa on the bed. Her hair is wet and her cheeks are splotchy red.

She's cried herself to sleep.

I sit in the one chair I have in the room and just stare at her.

How the fuck did this shit happen?

I've never been so affected by a woman in my life. Never thought it could happen to me. In fact, I was sure that I'd remain a bachelor for my life. I never wanted an Ol' Lady and this is exactly the reason why.

I don't have a clear head when it comes to her.

I'm not even sure how long I sit there staring at her but thankfully the anger inside of me starts to die down and all that's left is my burning need to prove to her that I'm the only man that she needs.

She turns over in the bed and she reaches out her hand, looking for something. For me.

When she feels nothing but the cool pillow next to her, her eyes pop open.

They settle on me and her lips lift into a soft smile until she gets a good look at my face and then she replaces the sweet look with a scowl.

"Are you just going to stare at me all night?" She asks with a husky sleep voice as she sits up letting her mostly dry hair hang around her shoulders and back.

"If I want," I reply gruffly.

"Leo, honestly, I don't have the strength to fight with you today. Whatever your problem is I need you to get over it." She crosses her arms over her chest and shoots daggers from her eyes at me.

"You don't tell me what I need to be doing Nisa. I thought you figured that out by now. This is my shit to run."

She jumps out of the bed, my long t-shirt coming down to her thighs and bunching up as she storms in my direction. "Yeah, I thought so too. I thought you would accept and maybe even appreciate what the hell I was doing to help you run your shit but instead you just made me feel like I was a fucking whore. A dumb gash. I did what I had to do Leo! What about that do you not understand?" She yells in my face and I lurch up out of the chair.

I move so fast that she flinches, moving back. Her eyes widen and she cringes away as if she thinks I'm going to hit her.

"Did what you had to do? Is that what you call it?" I ask, my voice barely more than a whisper.

"Yes." She answers nodding her head slowly, her eyes still roaming over my body looking for the next threat.