Page 35 of Can't Stop the Love of A Boss

“Somebody who cares, I guess. How the fuck should I know?” the guard asked as he unlocked the cell door.

Nikki wondered who the hell would come bail her out. If it was Murder, then she damn sure wouldn’t live to see tomorrow. Even if it was Pain, she figured she had a fifty-fifty chance of living to give birth to her baby. For the first time in her life, she was scared of what would happen to her. She wanted to turn around and go back inside the building when she saw LJ and Lamelle standing there waiting for her.

Why would Lawrynn’s brothers bail me out, and I’m in here for fucking up their sister? Nikki paused her steps for a moment, trying to figure out a quick escape plan.

“Go ’head and run so I can knock you the fuck out. Yeah, right here in the fucking police station. I’m begging you to test my gangsta today, bitch,” Lamelle said with a look of disgust on his face.

If it wasn’t for their mother calling them to get her out, she would rot in jail as far as Lamelle was concerned. It wasn’t a secret that Nikki got around, and that’s why he doesn’t fuck with her like that. Her fucking nothing ass niggas was one thing, but the way she attacked their sister was a whole new ballgame.

“What are you guys doing here?” she asked.

Nikki was nervous because although LJ and Lamelle were her cousins, she knew they wouldn’t hesitate to kill her ass behind their sister. Although they weren’t as bad as Murder when it came to killing people, they had a gruesome reputation of their own. Any other time, she wouldn’t be scared around them, but since she did what she did, she was downright afraid.

The brothers could see on her face how scared she was. They both knew that she didn’t have to be scared for her life today. Now, after their mother talks to her, she was gonna be fair game. Cousin or not, she had to pay for the shit she did.

“The sisters wanna talk to your dumb ass. When we get out there, get in the car and don’t say shit. If you even cough, I’m gonna punch your hateful ass in the head, stupid bitch,” LJ said then walked off and left his broth

er and cousin standing there.

Nikki turned to look at Lamelle. She was going to ask him what the sisters wanted until she saw his fist balled up at his side. She turned and walked behind her cousin, praying that something would happen, and she could get thrown back in jail.

The ride to where they were going was the most uncomfortable ride Nikki had ever taken. She was more scared than she had been in a long time. Her cousins had never really showed any emotion about anything she had done until now. Granted, this was the most drastic thing she had ever done, but Murder wasn’t trying to fuck her, so she had to do something.

They finally pulled up at Lawrynn’s mother’s house after the longest fifteen minutes ever.

“Get the fuck out. If you run, I’ll shoot your dumb ass,” LJ told her as he got out of the car.

Nikki slowly got out of the car, trying to figure out what the hell her aunties had to talk to her about. In all these years, they’d never wanted to talk about the things she did, so why now? Maybe I should’ve blinded her ass a long time ago? She mused.

“Ma, we here with the dumb bitch. Who gonna pay me my damn money back?” LJ asked as soon as his foot hit his mother’s floor.

“Cuss in my house one more damn time. Did you pay me back for all those times I bailed your dumb ass out of jail? No, your black ass didn’t. You want your money so damn bad, fight my ass for it. If you not gonna fight, then shut the fuck up. Don’t go in my kitchen either because, you didn’t buy a damn thing in there,” she told her son. She turned to look at her niece who had taken her daughter’s sight and shook her head. “Come in the living room,” she said as normal as she could.

Nikki followed her auntie, feeling the heat of the looks from her cousins as they made their way to the den. When she walked in the sisters were there looking at her like if they could kill her and get away with it they would.

“What the hell is going on with you? Why would you do that to your cousin?” Nikki’s auntie La-La asked.

Nikki rolled her eyes and kissed her teeth. From out of nowhere, she felt the intense pressure of a hand moving at a high rate of speed and colliding with her face. She looked up with tears in her eyes and one hand holding the side of her face that had just been assaulted.

“I don’t know what the fuck your problem is with my damn daughter, and I personally don’t give one good fuck. When you took it upon yourself to take away my baby’s sight that the good Lord gave her, you fucked up royally, heifer. I knew you were always jealous of those girls, but for the life of me, I never understood why. Those girls were nothing but good to your ass, and this is what you do. Sleeping with any man that’s interested in them, and now this. I don’t understand what the hell happened to make you act like this,” Laura, Lawrynn’s mother fussed.

Nikki looked around the room to see that no one was going to interfere when she was being hurt once again. Shaking her head, Nikki fought back the urge to hit her auntie back.

“I’ve never been jealous of your goodie-goodie daughters. You’re damn right I fucked all their boyfriends. I’m so damn good at it that I got a baby out of the deal. I shouldn’t be shocked that y’all are running to her rescue. Well, it’s too fucking late. The bitch should change her last name to Wonder from what I heard,” she said with a smirk.

“How in the hell did you get to be so evil?” Auntie La-La asked her.

“When you’re used and abused by family and nobody cares, that’s what happens, I guess. Y’all fake asses didn’t care then, so don’t care now,” she said.

“Who the fuck abused you?” Auntie Laura asked with her face balled up.

Nikki looked at her aunties and wondered why they never fought for her like this. No matter what happened in her life, they always just kept on living when it came to Nikki.

“LJ and Lamelle, get y’all asses in here,” Laura called out.

“What up, Mama?” Lamelle asked.

“Do you know anything about Nikki being abused when y’all were younger or ever?” Laura asked her sons.

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