Page 33 of A Player's Prayer
“I get off work early because I couldn’t stand to be away from you, and this is how you do me?”
“I’m going to go?—”
Pow!
I watched with wide eyes as a bullet whizzed past Ava’s head, causing her to fall to the floor and scream.
“Who the fuck are you?” Dakota asked in an eerie voice. “Which hoe am I killing tonight?” She looked from Ava to me as she took a step toward us. “One of you better answer me because my shot is better than you think. I’m just holding out for some fuckin’ answers! Now… who the fuck are you, bitch?
“Baby, it’s not what you think. I was telling Ava?—”
“Ava.” She smiled in a wicked way that had me horny and scared. “Your old fuck buddy—Harley’s friend, right?” She nodded her head as if she were now talking to herself. “I know Harley told her about me. You did too. So, I’m confused… why are you both naked in your living room? Did you even wash my juices off your dick before you fucked her?”
The hurt in her eyes and voice killed a nigga. She was pissed, and no matter what I said to her, the scene said something different. I’d fucked up.
“If you let me go, I promise he will never hear from me again.”
Whap!
“Shut up, hoe!” Kodi sneered as she bent over and hit Ava in the mouth with the butt of her gun. “That’s for calling me out of my name and not knowing me. As much as I want to kill you, it’s obvious you mean something to this nigga and his family, more than I ever could.” She dragged her eyes over to me. “Tell her to leave.”
“Get out, Ava,” I spoke instantly without taking my eyes off Kodi. Her hands were shaking, and she had every right to be pissed. “Now.”
Jumping to her feet, she ran over to grab her dress from the floor, but Kodi had her gun pointed back at her instantly.
“Nah, you want to be a hoe so bad and fuck on somebody else’s man, I’m going to treat you like one. Leave it and get the fuck out.”
With tears streaming down her face, she looked to me for help, but I said nothing. Hurriedly, she grabbed her keys and left out the front door as naked as she was when she entered the world. Hearing her car crank and pull out of my driveway, Kodi and I stared at each other, waiting for the other to speak. This was all on me, and I had to fix it.
“Baby—”
“Fuck you, Adrian.” She sneered as the first tear fell. “I told you I loved you. I gave you my fuckin’ heart! This is how you do me?”
“It’s not like that!” I yelled and took a step toward her. Her gun was now pointed at my chest, but I didn’t care. “I didn’t know she was coming here! I didn’t know she was going to do that! I would never cheat on you!”
“Your dick said different.” She raised a brow before shifting the gun lower to my mans that was semi-hard. “From what I saw, you were primed up and ready to do the do with that bitch.”
“Kodi, baby… please,” I said. Thinking she wouldn’t shoot at me, I pulled her to me. “I love you.”
“I love me too.” She peered up at me, and when the first tear fell, I felt like shit. “She should never have been that comfortable coming in here. You should never have allowed her into your space in the first place. If it’s that easy for a woman to have access to you, I don’t need you. Hell, who’s to say what would have happened if I had never come in? Would you have fucked her? Would you have told me?”
I said nothing because I didn’t know what she was getting at. Was she breaking up with me?
“I said I love you,” I reiterated. “You’re my girl. The only person I’m fucking is you.”
“I’m a woman who willalwaysput myself and my heart first.” She pushed back from me, wiping her tears. “It’s over,Adrian. You can go back to being Wild… I’m sure you were still him anyway.”
As I watched her retreat toward the door, my feet remained planted to the ground. Not even two hours ago, I was inside of her, telling her how much I loved her. Now, I’m a single man, according to her. Hearing her slam the door snapped me from my thoughts. Rubbing the dull pain in my chest, I realized that she took my heart right out of the door with her.
Slumping on my sofa, I placed my hand on my head and tried to think about what the fuck I was going to do. Wild wouldn’t trip. Wild would go and get three new hoes to replace the one he’d just lost, but this isn’t about Wild. And I didn’t just lose some hoe. This is about Adrian, and Adrian loves Dakota.
“Fuck that shit she talkin’ about.” I reached over to my end table and picked up one of my pre-rolled blunts. Grabbing the towel, I threw it over my now flaccid dick. The only reason I’d snatched it off was to get Ava’s hands off me.
“This shit is nowhere near over. You’re mine, Dakota. We will never be done.”
Ex-Nigga:
Baby, I don’t know why you act like you don’t miss a nigga. I told you I didn’t do shit with that girl.
