Page 109 of Steel
Kerrion chuckled. “I like you.”
Dinah smiled. “I’m very likeable, but don’t get it twisted. I can always be a bitch. I match energy, baby. You decide how we are gonna conduct ourselves.”
He shook his head, then looked to me. “You coming? I promise I got you.”
I looked at Dinah. “Whatever you wanna do, girl.”
I sighed and took my shot. If I was going to be around his people, not knowing what to expect, I needed it.
“Let’s go.”
He grabbed my hand, and we followed him through the crowd up to VIP. I could see his people laughing, talking, smoking, and having a good time.
“You can smoke in here?” Dinah asked.
“My brother owns the place,” Kerrion said. “We can do whatever we want.”
“Okay, big baller.”
As we got closer to the group, Deuce noticed us and got the attention of the rest of them. All of a sudden, several sets of eyes were on us, dropping from our faces to our linked fingers.
“Don’t start y’all shit,” Kerrion said.
Several responses went up around the room, but he waved them off.
“Neha, Dinah. I don’t think you met these three the other Sunday. This is my cousin Jakobi and his girl Renay, Romi’s sister. And this is my cousin Kaylynn.”
Kaylynn winked at Dinah, who stood there blushing. Quiet as it was kept, Dinah dabbled in the lady pond here and there. Kaylynn was her type, . . . a beautiful tomboy.
“We’ve been introduced,” Kaylynn said, standing.
She walked over and slid an arm around Dinah, before pulling her into a kiss.
Kerrion looked at me with wide eyes. “Is she . . .?”
“She dabbles,” I explained.
“Nah, she’s finna get turned out. You’re going home alone. Mark my words.”
He looked back at my sister and his cousin in an intense lip lock.
“Well damn!” Shar exclaimed. “Excuse the fuck outta us. I see you, cousin!”
Maceo grinned as he picked up his drink. “Forget them two. Look at these niggas.” He pointed at me and Kerrion. “Pay me my money. I told y’all this nigga was gonna be in love again.”
Deuce waved him off. “I ain’t paying you shit, because I called it too.”
Smoke laughed. “We all knew it was coming when he said he talked to her. Sucker ass nigga.”
Romi pinched him before turning to us.
“You two look happy, and that’s all we want,” she said.
“Don’t just stand there,” Shar said, smiling. “Take a shot and have a seat.”
He took a seat and pulled me into the space beside him. His family all looked at me with smirks, like they knew something I didn’t. This was going to be an interesting night.
Neha was lookinggood as fuck.
