By the time I finished, he was standing in the doorway dressed as well. “Whose car we taking?” he asked, like he didn’t have problems of his own.
“Mine. With my plates, I won’t get pulled over. But I can’t have you getting wrapped up in m—” I started but his voice interrupted me.
“Liora, drop all that and c’mon.”
“Come on where? I mean it, Iso. I don’t want you getting in trouble because of me.”
“Baby, I been in trouble before you. Shit, Iamtrouble. Just don’t kill me on this drive and we’ll be good.”
I shook my head and grabbed my gun from the island as we headed out of the back door. I wasn’t going to say it, but when he called me baby, it did something for me even, in my current state.
The drive should have been thirty-five to forty minutes, but I did eighty the whole way to the city and didn’t slow down. Iso held on to whatever he could the entire drive because I didn’t stop much and kept my foot to the gas. I technically didn’t slow down until I was pulling into Sissy’s driveway. She lived in our grandmother’s house. My mother inherited it from her mother and when she died, Sissy moved in.
I was out of the car, moving toward the door, when it opened and Lauryn stepped out with my nephew on her hip. Her eyes were on me for all of five seconds before they landed on the figure behind me. It wasn’t the moment to badger, but she’d find time.
“Well.”
I shook my head, bypassing her and going straight into the house. Sissy was seated on the sofa in the living room holding a bag of frozen veggies to her face.
“Who did it?” I asked, no pleasantries or good mornings.
She looked shocked that I was even here, but she shouldn’t have been. She should have known I was coming regardless.
She looked at me, then her attention caught something behind me. I already knew who and what it was, but that wasn’t important right now. I already knew Lauryn had questioned the man at the door from the moment he greeted her. Of course he wasn’t rude enough not to speak.I preferred that.
“Liora.” Sissy spoke, but I shook my head.
“No, who the fuck did this?” I glared at her. She not only had a black eye, but it was swollen and she had handprints around her neck.
“Kevin and his baby mama. He and I were chilling, then she barged in trying to fight me. I fought back because the bitch hit me. I guess he didn’t like that I was tagging her because then he jumped in.”
“Where does he stay?” I asked, not up for the extra details.
“Across the street.”
My eyes narrowed at her response. I turned to leave but stopped when Iso didn’t move. He blocked my path. He extended his hand, which I knew was him asking for my gun.
I pulled it out of my back and handed it to him. “Blue house?”
“Liora, don’t go over there and do anything crazy.”
“Blue house or not?” I tossed over my shoulder.
“Yes, blue house. And be careful, his grandma lives over there.” Sissy’s voice immediately irritated me.
“Fuck his grandma,” I tossed over my shoulder, already out the door.
I heard Iso lightly chuckle behind me.
I was across the street in seconds and it was just my luck that the door to their garage opened and who I presumed to be Kevin was taking the garbage out.
“Ay, you Kevin?” I asked, never slowing my stride.
“Who wants to know?” he asked with heavy bass in his tone. I’d fought many men in my day, so his buck twenty-five frame was nothing to me. I was about to deck his shit, weight behind the punch, when Iso grabbed my shoulder. I didn’t even have the chance to disagree because Iso had already sent his fist into Kevin’s face. I just knew he’d be unrecognizable after that hit. It made a loud thud on impact.
“Kevin, baby!” A female voice made me look away from the lack of man on the ground. He didn’t even put up any fight; he was too busy lying down trying to find his face.
“You must be baby mama,” I greeted the moment she was within my reach. She didn’t get the chance to respond because I decked her like I would’ve decked her baby father. Dramatically, she fell onto the ground next to Kevin.
