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She sighed and finally told me, “I’m just…I’m just ready to come home, Mama.”
“Why? What’s wrong?”
“Daddy brought us over his girlfriend’s house again.”
“Again? What? Wait, what girlfriend?”
“Felicia.”
I bit my bottom lip and cringed. This nigga just refused to stop torturing me. I had stabbed him in the chest buthe definitely had a fictitious knife in my heart that he was digging in and twisting over and over again.
“This isn’t your first time there?”
“No, he brought us here before but this is our first time spending the night.”
“I’m sorry, Essence. I thought he had been taking you to his parents’ house all this time. Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I don’t know.”
Kids, I thought, shaking my head.
“Well, unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about him taking you there. He has the right to. These are the things that are going to happen since we aren’t together anymore. Unless she is hurting your or something…”
“No, she’s not.”
“Okay. Is Elijah sleep?”
“Yeah. He fell asleep watching TV.”
“Okay, baby. Well, call me if you need me.”
“Okay–”
“Essence, I mean it. Call me if you need me.”
“Okay, Ma.”
“Bye, baby. Love you.”
“Love you too, Mommy.”
As I hung up, I couldn’t ignore the gut feeling that something was really wrong with Essence. But, hell, there was. Even though she always said that the sexual assault incident wasn’t bothering her or making her think any bad thoughts, I knew that it had to be. I made a mental note to get my baby into some therapy. Luckily, her first therapy appointment would be in a few weeks.
Before walking out of the kitchen, my cell was ringing again.
I frowned, seeing that it was Fabe. I hadn’t talked to him ina while so I answered, fighting the urge to get back to that soothing foot massage that was taking my mind off of all of my bad thoughts.
“Hello?”
“Hey, Solae. I didn’t catch you at a bad time, did I?”
“No, what’s up?”
Then, I braced myself. So much had been going on with Rah and the people around him. Caine was still missing. Lavell and Nell had been killed. It seemed like everyone around Rah was dropping, except for the main motherfucker that I wished would go away–Rah.
“I wanted to talk to you about something, but I really need you to keep this between me and you. It can’t get back to Rah.”
“Okay,” I agreed.
