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Senior waved her off. “Girl, please. This is my woman, you hear me? Mine.”

“I get that, but damn Daddy. I’m really not trying to be Deuce. Y’all scarred my brother for life. I don’t want that fate.”

“You remember how you two thought y’all were alone in Paris?” Senior asked, pointing between the two of them. “Yeah, it’s like that. We’re about to dip. I love y’all, goodbye.”

He didn’t give me a chance to say anything before he was scooping me up over his shoulder and heading for the door.

“Don’t drop me!” I said between laughs.

He slapped my ass as we hit the front door. “The only thing I plan to drop in you is some dick when I get you to this house.”

I shook my head.

What was I gonna do with him?

I’d been back home for three days now and had been in my own little bubble. If it wasn’t my wife and my kids, I didn’t have much for anybody else. Was I being pissy? Maybe. Were my feelings valid? Shit, to me they were.

If I told Senior once, I told him a million times to stay away from my damn mama. Some people would say that I went too hard about that woman but fuck them. I was and always had been protective of her, even as a jit. I knew she could take care of herself, but when it came to Senior, she was way too lax. I knew my pops was a handsome, smooth muthafucka, that could sweet talk the panties off any woman. And he could be that… just not with Stephanie

He’d been calling me since yesterday, but I really didn’t have shit to say right now. I told them I was gonna mind my business and that’s what I was doing.

After being cooped up in my house since I’d been home, I decided to venture outside today. Currently, I was in the gym on the compound, getting a workout in. Pops called me on my way over here and basically threatened to whip my ass if I didn’t present myself to him soon. He said we needed to talk and it wasn’t a request. I didn’t wanna talk because I didn’t have shit to say.

The door to the gym opened and Smoke walked in. He made his way over to the weight bench where I was as Maceo and Steel walked in behind him.

“You still pissy?” Smoke asked.

“Fuck you,” I said as I curled the weights into my chest.

He chuckled. “You over here beasting like you have a point to prove.”

Maceo nodded in agreement. “Yeah, you gon’ feel that shit later.”

I did a final curl and dropped the weights before getting down to do push-ups.

“I’m fine,” I said after a few thrusts.

Smoke kissed his teeth. “You lying like a muthafucka.”

Steel put a foot on my back to stop me. “Take a break and talk to us.”

“I don’t wanna talk about it. Move your damn foot.”

He shook his head but moved his foot. I was laser focused on my reflection as they all stood around me. The doors of the gym opened and Titan and Quaid walked in.

“Sup, bitch ass niggas,” Titan said, slapping hands with my brothers.

“Sup, fuck nigga,” Smoke retorted.

“Hey, y’all,” Quaid greeted. His gazed dropped to me as I pumped my arms to lift my body in a quick steady motion. “Why’s he going ham like that?”

“He’s still in his damn feelings about his mama and daddy,” Maceo said.

“I ain’t in my fucking feelings,” I snapped.

“Then why don’t you wanna talk about it?”

“Cause I fucking don’t!” I hopped to my feet and stood toe to toe with him. “You take everything as a joke.”