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“Sure.” He placed the box in his hand on the floor, and we exited the garage. Khalif led me up to the porch where the swing was and took a seat. “What’s going on?”
Drawing in a deep breath, I said, “There’s something that I need to tell you.”
“Okay…”
“Prada didn’t just get sick and die. Someone killed her.”
His brows snapped together. “Who would do something like that?”
“This guy named Mitchell. He’s brothers with my best friend’s boyfriend. When I left Atlanta, he followed me here. He’s the one who told me about your cocaine farm. He threatened to kill Khali if I didn’t help him rob you.”
“Hold on.” Getting up from the swing, he went into the house, and a few seconds later, he came back out with a shotgun. I jumped and almost flipped out of the swing. My heart skipped a beat in my chest, and moisture pooled in my eyes. He slid the pump back with a low, grinding scrape that echoed in the air. “What the fuck are you trying to say?”
“Wait!” My hand lifted into the air. “I’m telling you the truth. You know I wouldn’t want anything to happen to her. You can look at my phone and see the messages. I love Khali. When I didn’t do what he wanted, he told me that he was going to kill all of us after he had already killed Prada and kidnapped Reese. Here.”
I handed him the phone, and he scrolled through the messages. “And why would he want to threaten you?”
“I killed his brother.”
“I’ll handle it,” he said and handed me the phone back. “Go.”
Slowly, I lifted to my feet and reached for him. He stepped back from me. My heart ached. “Khalif…”
“Go!” he barked.
Hugging myself, I walked down off the porch to my truck. This is exactly what I was afraid of.
Chapter 20
Maya
The following morning
News about Khalif and that new girl, Remedi, has been spreading around town. We heard someone having sex at church, and I was livid when they tried to say that it was Khalif. There’s no way he would’ve been doing something like that in the Lord’s house, but after I sat outside and waited to see who would come out, it definitely was them. My heart fell to my ass, and I ain’t been able to get it back up ever since.
I’ve been blowing up Khalif’s phone ever since I saw him and her talking at Khali’s birthday party. He’s been blowing me off, not wanting to deal with me. I know that we were only having sex, but damn, he didn’t have to toss me to the side like that. The hoe wasn’t even in town long, and he was already acting as if she was his saving grace.
I bet once she ups and leaves his ass, he’d come crawling right back to me, but that didn’t stop the fact that I was hurt and I didn’t know where to place this anger.
I’d been sitting down the street from his house all morning, waiting on him to pull out of his driveway. Khalif’s truck finally came out, and I waited ’til he was two miles up the road beforehitting the lights on him. If he didn’t want to answer my phone calls and tell me what’s going on, then he was going to have to look at me face to face and tell me. His ass wasn’t being man enough to let me know that he didn’t want to deal with me anymore.
Khalif’s truck pulled over to the side of the road, and I got out the car. Stepping to his door, I waited ’til his window let down. My teeth clenched when I saw who was in the driver’s seat.
“Was I speeding or something?” Dallas Reign asked, already holding her driver’s license in her hand.
“Where’s your brother?”
“Why?”
“I was hoping to speak with him.”
“I can’t disclose his location right now. If you want to know where he is, you’d have to call him and find out for yourself.”
“Why are you bullshitting with me right now, Dallas?”
“I’m not. Call him. Now if I didn’t do anything wrong, I do have somewhere to be.”
I stepped back from the truck and allowed her to pull off. Fuck. I’m just going to have to keep trying his phone or just show up at his house, but he wasn’t getting out of talking to me so easily.
