Page 17 of The Love Bully
He wanted to laugh, but he held strong. “Nah, she moved in here from Florida like five months ago after her husband divorced her. She signed a prenup, so she didn’t leave the marriage with anything, because she cheated.”
“Well, damn, you know all her business.” I looked back to Kim’s house. “Based on this raggedy trailer, her ass came with nothing and left with less. I see why she didn’t want to be a mother for a second time.” I readjusted my hat. “Let’s go talk to your baby mama.”
I heard him huff as I climbed out of the car. Orion hated when I referred to either Kim or Kisa as his baby mama. It was a reminder of his poor dick management.
This bitch Kim lived in a single wide trailer that looked like it was manufactured in the nineties. You could tell that it used to be white, but now it was a gradient gray and black. My hands hadto grab the staircase rails because the stairs were shakier than a baby learning to walk.
Orion tittered behind me. “Careful, love. You don’t want to walk down the aisle with a cast on your leg or arm.”
I slowly turned to face him. “I’ll sue that bitch if that happens, after I beat her ass. Now come kick this flimsy door in.”
“Damn, why I got to kick it in?” He stared at me for a beat, then kissed my temple. “I swear your ass is violent.”
He was right. When it came to my babies, none of my decisions were rational if you fucked with them and I had to come see you about them. The whole world could kiss my ass about my babies.
Boom!The weak door split straight down the middle. Orion pulled his gun, then walked in. He told me not to come in until he told me to. I loved it when he protected me. A moment later, he came back to the broken door with a disgusted look. “She’s sleeping in the bedroom with a friend.”
I just knew like hell that this woman didn’t drop her newborn off on a doorstep to come back to this roach hostel to get dick. “Oh, this bitch got me fucked up. I got something for her ass.”
I walked over to the kitchen and turned on the hot water faucet. I used a pot that was on the counter to fill. Once it was filled, I carried it to the bedroom that Orion said they were in. I looked into the open door and shook my head. There was no way that these fuckas slept this hard. As soon as I was at the side of the bed, I threw the water on them.
They both jumped up screaming. “What the fuck! Bitch, how the hell did y’all get into my house?”
“Don’t worry about that trivial shit. I heard you’re leaving newborn babies on people’s doorsteps unannounced. Oh, then you leave straight from there to come home to suck dick.” I was livid. It hadn’t been four hours since she dropped Maddie off, and here she was butt ass naked in the bed with a nigga.
The dude looked confused. “Wait! I thought you said you were going to put the baby in one of those firehouses, hospital boxes where you can leave a baby for free.”
“Nigga, did you just say put the baby in a box for fuckin’ free! That couldn’t be what your slow ass said.” Orion’s jaw tightened. “Are you Maddie’s father?”
This nigga nodded before he leaned into Kim’s ho ass and asked in a low voice if that was the baby’s name. When Orion stepped forward, I put my hand out to stop him. I knew that he was about to knock this dummy’s ass out.
Kim’s head snapped at him. “Shut up.” She turned back to us like she had a right to be mad. “What the fuck do y’all want? Y’all have no reason to be in my fuckin’ house.”
Yeah, I wasn’t about to do this. My closed fist connected with the middle of her face like a bullseye target. She cried out as her body fell back on the bed.
When her nigga jumped up, he was met with a gun at the tip of his nose. “Aht, aht, aht, fuck nigga. I would pipe down if I was you. Wait, aren’t you supposed to be married or some shit?”
Dude’s hands were raised in the air. He certainly wasn’t a tough guy. “I . . . I am, but I left my wife last week. I wanted to be with Kimmie.”
Now I was confused as fuck. I pulled the little letter that she wrote out of my pocket. “This letter here said that you didn’t want anything to do with the baby. I’m confused. Did you or did you not want the baby?”
When he didn’t immediately answer, Orion hit him in the head with the butt of his gun. “Okay! Damn, I did tell her that I didn’t want to be with a woman with a baby. She told me that she would put it in one of those giveaway boxes so we could be together.”
These were literally a bunch of bums. My eyes scanned the room. It was a complete mess. Kim was a lot of things, butI never knew her to be nasty like this. Back then, she lived a money ho lifestyle. Now she lived like a fuckin’ . . .Ah, there it is.I got Orion’s attention and pointed at the dresser.
He walked over to it and glared at the items on top of it. “Meth, bitch? You’re on meth?”
This shit was maddening and sad all in the same. What in the hell could go on in a person’s life that they turned to meth? Kim’s ass finally stopped crying like a bitch. “Bitch, you’re sad as fuck. Stay the fuck away from Karla. If I so much as think that you’re on your way near her, I will kill you.”
Pop!All of us jumped at the sound of Orion’s gun. My eyes bucked at a bullet in Kim’s baby father’s head. She screamed and fell over him. I knew my baby was about that life, but I had never witnessed him in that life. He made sure I was far removed.
He smoothly walked over to Kim and yanked her up by the back of her collar. With his lips to her ear, he said, “I did your junkie ass a favor by taking one of the problems out of your life. Get your shit together, bitch. Like my wife said, step foot on the other side of town, and the next bullet will be in your head.” He let her go, took a step back, then looked at me with tight eyes. “Let’s go, Marsha.”
He didn’t have to say shit else. I would not be combative with a man that just killed someone. Yeah, dude deserved it, but damn. I left the room first with Orion on my heels. He followed me to the passenger side to open my door and secure me into my seat. Once he got in, he wasted no time to pull out.
I cleared my throat. I wasn’t sure how any of this worked. “Um, baby, what about the police? I don’t want you to go to jail.”
He peeked at me, then back at the road. He told his truck to call someone. The phone rang twice before someone picked up. Orion gave the person the address and just told them to handle it. After the line disconnected, he took my hand into his,then kissed the back of it. “No worries, love. I’m never going anywhere.”
