Page 35 of If I Gave You My Heart
The last thing that I wanted was for Dom's truck to flip the fuck over. Nyoka's hand touched my knee, and it calmed me a bit, but I still wanted to murder something. I noticed how calm she was in a heated situation, and I appreciated the shit. When I got worked up like this, I couldn't control myself, and this was the anger that Adira and Joy were talking about when it came to me.
"Just drive the car, Talia, damn. Hurry and get us to ya crib so we can drop y'all off and then go handle business," Dom instructed before shaking his head.
Dom's temper was just about the same as mine, so I knew, just like me, he was pissed the fuck off. Whooping on that nigga wasn't gonna be enough for him. He probably wanted that man in the dirt. When Talia made a right, I looked out the window in shock because the scenery we were passing was all too familiar.
"You live here?" I heard Dom ask before I could.
"Yeah, come on. Y'all ain't handling nothing, so y'all might as well stay here for the night." Talia cut the engine and then hopped out of the truck.
Nyoka opened her door and followed behind her. Dom turned around and stared at me, and in return, I was staring right back at him. We definitely looked like Diddy and that dude staring GIF. We were parked behind Talia's car, which was sitting outside the very first house we had robbed in Winder.
The world was too small if you asked me because what were the odds of that shit? Dom and I were still sitting in the truck, I'm sure both in shock. He was the first to exit.
"Aye, bae, hand me my keys so we can jet," I heard him say to Talia.
"Oh, you thought I was asking when I said that y'all are staying the night? I wasn't. Bring ya bald-headed ass in the house!" Talia walked up to the front door with Nyoka following behind her.
Dom nodded his head for me to get out.
"This shit is crazy," I whispered to him as we followed the ladies inside.
Their house was decked the fuck out like we hadn't emptied it. If I wasn't falling for Nyoka, I woulda hit that shit for a second time. A part of me wondered how they were able to refurnish the crib that fast. I quickly brushed the thoughts to the side because we were in an era of social media influencers and Only Fans stars, so who knows where they got the money from.
Nyoka was pointing out where the bathrooms were located, although we already knew. I was so pissed off at what had happened in the parking lot I didn't have the chance to check on her. It was her car that had gotten broken into, vandalized, and shit was stolen from her, yet she seemed to be the calmest one in this situation.
"You good?" I asked her when I saw her sitting silently on a barstool that I thought about stealing a while back.
"Yeah, shit happens. It's life."
Nyoka was so damn laid back about the shit. That was the difference between her and me. Where she knew how to control her temper, I let my shit go. I would explode over the smallest things, and it was honestly something that I was still working on.
"I just wanna lay down, honestly," she added.
I was about to lead the way to her bedroom, but I stopped myself because, to her knowledge, this was my first time there, and I didn't know which bedroom belonged to her.
"Dom and I should be leaving. Go get yourself some rest."
Nyoka got off of the stool and then grabbed my hand. "You heard what Talia said, y'all are staying," she said as she led the way upstairs.
When Nyoka pushed the door open, I knew the chain she had seen in my bathroom belonged to her. I wonder if she suspected us of the robbery. If she did, she damn sure didn't act like it. That could be the reason she had ghosted me as well. I pushed my thoughts to the back of my mind because she was back now, and that's all that mattered.
"Can you zip this down for me?"
Nyoka had on this yellow leather body suit. She did that Uma Thurman shit, for sure. She snatched off the blonde wig on her head and tossed it on her dresser.
"When I first came in your room, I thought Dom's ass got nasty taste like Talia, judging by the color on your wall."
I lightly chuckled as she pulled an oversized t-shirt out of her drawer. I had gotten the idea of the color in my room from her room and didn't even know that the room belonged to her at the time. I felt crazy being in the room with her. It didn't feel right. She tossed the shirt on, and it swallowed her small frame.
I quickly wondered if the shirt had belonged to an ex or something. I was about to ask, but I decided against it. Nyoka was in my presence now, and that's all that mattered.
"Lay with me?" she questioned more than demanded.
Since Dom and I had come straight from the crib, and I was dressed in basketball shorts, sneakers, and a hoodie, I figured it would be okay if I laid beside her. I laid on my back, and then she laid her head on my chest. Nyoka fit perfectly up under my armpit. I ended up playing in her hair while we lay in silence for a minute. Being in her room was getting to me because I kept picturing myself clearing the shit out. Like, I even took the girl's damn hangers. I was in beast mode back then, and I really felt bad because a girl like Nyoka didn't deserve that shit. I made a little promise to myself to splurge on her just because I felt like I had to ensure she got back everything I had taken.
Nyoka was a unique girl with weird taste, so the chain still in my possession was similar to the one my mother used to wear. I'm sure it didn't cost much, so I just made a mental note to get her a necklace. I could have just given her back the original one, but I had lied and told her that I had sold it on eBay. It was something about it that I just couldn't part with. As we lay there in silence, I wished we were laid up in my room. I felt out of place lying in her bed.
"I can't wait to buy me a house. We both just got rooms in somebody else shit," I randomly stated.
