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"Thank you," I mouthed, then stalked off toward the hotel, where I watched Rize walk him inside.
"Crown!" I called after him. "Crown!"
"The fuck you want,Riv?" he barked, silencing the entire lobby.
My eyes bucked in shock at his tone. Blinking back tears, I puffed my chest out and yelled with the same venom coiling around his words, "Fuck you Crown!"
Chapter 36
Navy Achebe
"We gotta get the fuck outta here," Wolfe said. His eyes pleading with me to not start my shit. Sirens blared in the distance, probably because of the shots we heard coming up from The Vault.
"Okay," I murmured, leaning further into Chosyn.
"We're gonna go check on Rize," Kyree called out, tugging her sister back toward the hotel.
Before I could say anything, River came running out crying. Chosyn quickly unhooked her arm from mine and ran over to her.
"Bring y'all asses on!" Wolfe called out. We all trekked behind him, following Wolfe a block over to a parked blacked-out Suburban.
"I'ma sit in the back with River," Chosyn said.
I wasted no time getting in the passenger seat. Wolfe sped off, and for the first ten minutes, it was quiet with the occasional sniffling from River.
"He's going to be straight," Wolfe murmured, but I caught it.
"How sure are you?" I asked.
"I'm not, but for my own sanity, I gotta believe he will be."
"What the fuck happened?"
"I don't know for sure."
"Don't bullshit me, Wolfe!" I spat.
"Let's watch our tones when speaking to someone else's husband," Chosyn offered as advice, but it was a threat.
"Chill my heart," Wolfe advised her soothingly. They caught eyes in the rearview mirror. He winked at her, and she blushed, disarming for her man.
"We had a meet, but it was a setup. I was helping a nigga who'd gotten shot when Crown went to the lower deck of the boat. After that, I don't know much else other than Crown came up with Honor slumped on his shoulder. We had to get the fuck out of there, so Honor got in a car headed to the hospital and Crown and I came to get y'all."
"Y'all let him go to the hospital alone?" I frowned, wondering when the tables had turned between the three of them. "Honor wouldn't have left either of you to come get me."
"I'm not gon' speak on what Honor would or wouldn't have done. I came and got y'all because that’s what Honor wanted. As far as I knew, y'all were safe at the party with Rize and Lynx. I owe Honor too fucking much to leave him for dead."
"But that's exactly what the fuck you did!"
"Bit—"
"Chosyn!" Wolfe gritted.
"I'm sorry, but I don't take well to anyone screaming at you. Friend or not, Navy knows your heart and knows you wouldn't willingly leave Honor," Chosyn smacked.
"You're right. I'm just scared. Honor was shot, and he's alone. If something happens to him and I'm not there?—"
I shook my head, hoping that would stop the tears and the terrible ache gnawing at my heart.
