“Rare bags? Hell nawl, he can’t. You got a husband!”
Jisei rolled her eyes. “I never thought when I finally got a sister she’d be a hater.”
“That’s why you ain’t expected to think. Just look pretty,Jae Bae. But, anywho! I have to start adding this disclaimer now.”
Dasani sat up and looked me directly in the eyes. “Solana, you are not a wife, so there are things that will be filtered around you. There are times that you will be excluded. There will be sidebar conversations only because the big dicks we ride every night come first before anything and anybody. I fucks with you, and although Demise Rinaldi irks my soul, I will not see my nigga back in jail. As long as you cool with that, you in the clique.”
“Really, Dasani?” Jisei folded her arms as Pia and Mocha giggled.
“Yes, really! I ain’t going to go into details, because I ain’t no fake-ass bitch, but Ithoughtit was common knowledge that if we are around you, you are in our circle. It’s plenty of niggas that work for my husband, and we don’t fuck with their wives like that, at all. Not because we are some mean girls, but they have their own lil’ cliques like we got our own. The fact of the matter is… We bring women inwithoutbeing married, which lets them know we fuck with them the long way. So, please… Don’t do anything drastic to fit in with us because you’re already in. Okay?” Dasani blinked at me with a smile.
“You messy.” Mocha laughed, and Pia wiped tears from her eyes from laughing.
“I’m real!” Dasani spat. I noticed a slight shift from Scarlett and Jisei, but I knew not to ask.
Dasani clicked her tongue and shifted back on the bed to get comfortable again. “I know you’re on cocaine and all, but what was the breaking point for Shio? Did he really notknow? How did you hide it? I’m sorry, there are so many gaps in the story, and I’m a nosy bitch. My husband don’t pillow talk to me like he does to hissister.”
Jisei picked up a throw pillow and tossed it at Dasani, who caught it and tossed it back.
Wringing my hands, the day I was brought here came back to me. It was one that I tried not to think about. In less than twenty-four hours, I’d been put out and was looked at by Shio with so much hate that I felt his emotions in my gut.
“He’d just come back from taking Bahati to the hospital. I was in the kitchen, sitting on the countertop.”
“Uggh! Weird-ass, back-from-the-dead-ass baby mama.” Scarlett scoffed.
Her name-calling made me smirk.
“Her arm was broken—is broken…” I paused, unsure of what I could share, so I skipped past the entire kidnapping-rescue situation.
“Her ass should’ve been broken! Like… Shio should have put his whole foot so far in her ass that it should still be stuck. Who the fuck hides a baby?”
“Right!” Mocha backed Pia’s statement.
I didn’t understand why she hid Shya, but she was very much unhidden now. Shya was at Shio’s home, being raised by both of her parents. The thought of them being a family made my chest burn.
“They came in, and she accused me of being careless with drugs. Before I could get an explanation out, she attacked me.”
When Bahati snatched me from the counter with her one arm, I was in complete shock, but hours later, my back was on fire.
“That bitch put her hands on you?” Pia screamed.
“All, hella nawl!” Dasani spat, sitting up on the bed again.
“I was so surprised… I didn’t have much time to react. I was trying to explain to Shio that I would never do that. I have smaller siblings back home. I would never leave drugs around. I didn’t have much left, and what I did have left was in the closet on the island. Not in some baggie.”
“You didn’t fight back, Solana? The bitch had one arm so you was supposed to mop her ass all up and through that fucking kitchen! When I got done with the hoe, she would’ve had two broken arms!” Dasani fumed as Mocha agreed.
“Sadly, no… I did not want to fight with the mother of his child. And the baby was there.”
“Man, fuck that baby!” Mocha punched her fist to her palm. “You mean to tell me you didn’t at least pinch the bitch? Shio would have just had to kill me because I would have dog-walked that hoe! Ohhhhh! See, we should’ve been there!”
“I can’t believe she put her hands on you,” Scarlett said. “What did Shio do because now I’m about to forget he’s my cousin and curse him the fuck out!”
“He broke it up. But then, he put me in his car and brought me here. I’ve been here ever since.”
“And your first course of action when you get out this bitch is whooping that hoe’s ass! See, Demise didn’t tell me this!” Dasani was growing red in the face, and I warmed to the fact that she really cared for me.
Jisei tsked. “I heard the baby doesn’t talk. She’s probably too traumatized.”
