Page 18 of River & Crown
"Wassup Four." Wolfe smiled. He slipped the baby from his chest, passed her to me, and then went to hug River.
"You tell me since you keep threatening to steal my car." She giggled.
"I gotta make sure I have something to hang over your head to ensure you bring my heart back to me in one piece."
"If she doesn't make it home, then you can trust I'm not making it either."
"This why I fucks with you, Four."
"Let me ask you something, Wolfe."
"Wassup?"
"If you died, would you want Chosyn to find love with someone else?"
My eyes bulged when River asked him that shit. Wolfe wasn't right in the head, making his answer null and void.
"Fuck no."
"Wolfe," I bickered.
"I'm deadass. If you died, you wouldn't have to worry about me fuckin' on another bitch let alone looking for love elsewhere."
"Oh, you'll be celibate?" I quizzed.
"Fuck no. I'ma fuck the ghost version of you."
"Wolfe!" I laughed hard as hell, scaring my child.
"Deadass. Yo' ass glued to me in real life. You think you gon' be any different in the afterlife? Nah. Every night you bring your ass in my room, I'ma be balls deep in that ghost pussy."
"Okay, I'm going inside. River, call me when you get home. Love you, BB."
"Love you more, BB."
Rocking Phoenix in my arms, I carried her into the house, humming her favorite lullaby. I brought her into the living room and then laid her down in her playpen. Going into the spare bedroom I used on the first floor of our house while recovering, I changed my clothes, putting on a two-piece pajama set. I walked back into the living room, grabbed my child, and then sat right in the bay window. I watched Wolfe and River talk, then smirked when I saw a car speed down the block, hit a U-turn, and slowly pull up, blocking my driveway.
Chapter 3
Crown Gravehart
Iwatched Four through the tinted windows, trying my best to read her. Leah was on some good bullshit from what Chosyn texted me. I wasn't tripping off none of it. I didn't have shit to hide. What fucked me up was Chosyn being the one to tell me what happened instead of River. All she had to do was call and ask if it was true with the phone on speaker. Had she done that, she'd known Leah was on bullshit.
Questioning River on why she didn't act in the manner of a woman who trusted her nigga was pointless. I knew the answer. We madeusofficial six months ago, and she'd been walking on pins and needles since. It was hot and fucking cold with her ass. One minute, she'll be in the moment with me, and the next, she's elsewhere, mentally blocking me out. The fucked-up part was we still laughed and joked like best friends and fucked like rabbits. Any race she had, I pulled up to ride shotgun and watch my four-eyed bandit dust these hoes. Our shit really should've been rainbows and gumdrops, but every so often, she detached from a nigga.
"Nigga, you gon' sit in that bitch forever?" Wolfe questioned, knocking on the passenger window.
Inwardly, I chuckled, amused at how much shit Wolfe talked after becoming a dad. The nigga who kept shit close to the vest found his voice after Phoenix entered the world. I was happy for bro. If any of us deservedthis,it was him. Wolfe had a chance to give his daughter the family neither he nor Chosyn had. At one point, I was nervous for 'em, but now I couldn't believe how Phoenix lucked up with them as parents.
"Get the fuck out, nigga." Wolfe knocked again.
Reaching toward the back seat, I grabbed the bouquet of roses and hopped out of my whip. It didn't take long for my eyes to wander toward the woman who managed to capture my heart. My four-eyed beauty looked good as fuck, with her curls bouncing around in the light breeze. Staring back, she pushed her muthafuckin' glasses up, and a nigga had to hit that twitch in my stride to readjust my dick. Four with glasses and her curls out was my muthafuckin' kryptonite. Four could get the world and the moon out of me, and her ass knew it too.
"Are those for me?" she cooed, reaching for the flowers.
"Nah."
Moving past her, I hit the GD salute with Wolfe, then tapped my forehead twice.
