Page 12 of Can't Stop the Love of A Boss: Part 2

“No. I don’t know what you and Lawrynn have been over there doing. Just like you don’t know what I’ve been doing to Ella,” Uncle Jimmy said with a smile.

“When Law Baby’s sight comes back I’m gonna propose to her,” Murder blurted out.

“Are you asking her to marry you because you love her? Or, are you asking her because you fear that whatever she finds out will break her, and she’ll need something to hold on to?” Uncle Jimmy asked.

“I love the fuck out of her. Yeah, I think whatever it is will break her down, but she’s not gonna stop being her. Truthfully, I got the ring after all the shit went down with Nikki and we found out she was gonna be okay. The thought of losing her fucked me up bad. I was lost at just the thought of losing her. That’s when I knew I couldn’t live without her,” he answered truthfully.

“Then make sure she can’t live without you either. I like her for you, she’s a good look. How does Pain feel about you wanting to marry her?” he asked Murder.

“I asked him to be the best man one day. He was cool with it. I still gotta keep my eye on him, though,” Murder said.

“Always keep your head on a swivel. I think Pain has too much other shit going on right now to be worried out you and Lawrynn. Just keep an eye on him. Now can you take your ass home, so I can go be up under my woman?” he told his nephew as he finished his blunt.

“Damn, just like that, huh?” Murder asked as he stood to his feet.

“Just make sure you do like I told you. Just be there for her and don’t go all cave man,” he told Murder just before walking in the house and closing the door behind him.

Murder chuckled at his Uncle’s rudeness.

Heading home, Murder thought about what his uncle had said. Maybe pulling a gun on Lawrynn’s mom was a little too far. Just as quick as the thought came, it left. Nah, I’ll just shoot her ass the next time. Straight up.

Chapter Seven

Pain sat in the hospital room getting frustrated at the predicament he was in. He knew he didn’t need to keep thinking about it because nothing was going to change. He was still in love with Lawrynn, Nikki was having his baby, but there was one shining light in his eyes, and that was Connie. They were constantly texting each other.

Connie hadn’t come back to Nikki’s room, and he was fine with that. Nikki wasn’t going to act like she had some sense if Connie were to come through the door. Something about Connie definitely had Pain interested in getting to know her, but he was going to take things slow with her right now. He chuckled at the fact that he had placed himself in the friend zone.

“Do you know anything about Lawrynn and her progress?” Nikki asked.

“No,” he answered, not bothering to look at her. In fact, the fake concern she was showing right now irritated him.

“Why are you being like this toward me?” Nikki asked, only to be ignored by Pain. “If this is how you’re gonna be when the baby gets here then why even bother to be up here with me?”

“Stop talking to me. After the baby gets here and it’s confirmed that it’s mine, I’m filing for custody,” he told her.

“You got me fucked up if you think I’m gonna let you take my baby away from me. We’re supposed to be a family,” Nikki said.

“How the hell you figure all that? I’m not fucking with you, period. I’m not trying to turn a hoe into a housewife. Your ass is gonna be in the streets anyway. You be calling in some favors from them niggas you’ve been fucking with. My kid ain’t gonna need lace fronts or red bottoms. I’m gonna do for my kid no doubt, but your ass is on your own,” he said. “Oh yeah, if the kid ain’t mine, you better find his daddy. The kid is gonna need him with you being dead and all that good shit,” Pain said with a serious expression.

Nikki just watched him as he totally ignored her for whatever bitch was on his phone. This was supposed to be different. Pain was supposed to be with her, loving and caring for his family. She was giving him the one thing that no one else could, not even Lawrynn’s precious ass, his first born child.

“Pain, I love you,” Nikki said.

“No, you don’t. You love the fact that you came between Lawrynn and me. You can sit right there and keep that fake love to yourself. I don’t need the shit,” he told her.

“Pain, don’t take my baby from me. This baby is all I have left of what we were,” she said, forcing tears to run down her face.

Tears always worked with any man she’d come in contact with. They couldn’t resist her. She put her face in her hands and got more dramatic. Nikki felt something fall onto her hospital bed, and slowly she raised her face to see a box of tissue. She looked at Pain, confused and unaware of what the box was for.

“Whenever you finish crying or whatever it is you call yourself doing, wipe your face off,” Pain told her and went back to his seat.

The door opened, and in came Nikki’s aunties Laura and La-La. Pain watched them both as they entered the room. Laura was being a little too attentive to Nikki from what Pain saw. He just looked at them as they talked to her.

“Have the doctors come in here to tell you when you’re going home?” La-La asked.

“He actually said three more days in here at least. That’s fine with me, though. I’d rather be here instead of at my condo lonely as fuck. I’m still gonna be on bed rest, so that’s gonna make things even worse,” Nikki whined.

“The lord will work everything out, Nikki, you just have to be patient,” Laura told her.

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