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“Wait…is it that bad? I don’t know what I’m walking into.”

“Ky, I’m not gonna hurt you. You’re the only person I can trust wit’ this information. I’d rather be home. I don’t know what kinda devices my brother got in his house.”

“Nigga, you don’t care when we are fucking.”

“You got a point. Just come over.”

“Give me a few minutes, and I’ll be over there.”

Twenty minutes later, he was opening the door for me. His eyes were droopy, and he looked like he hadn’t had an ounce of sleep.

“You look a mess,” I said as I stepped in.

“I haven’t slept since I left your house a few mornings ago.”

“Meek, that was like the day before yesterday. What the fuck have you been doing?”

He didn’t say anything. He just walked off. I slipped my shoes off and followed behind him to see he was standing at his bar pouring himself a shot. Whatever it was, it was fucking with him, and I wanted to know.

“You ain’t answered any of my calls or texts, but I bet yo’ ass done talked to that corny ass nigga, Lloyd.”

I turned around and started walking back towards the door. Shameek ran behind me and grabbed me by the waist, spilling some liquor on his marble floors.

“Meek, I didn’t come here to hear about Lloyd. You asked me to come over because you wanted to talk, and here I am.”

“My bad. I’m just a lil’ jealous, Ky. I just kno’ the closer that nigga gets to you, the more he’s gonna fall for you like me. I want you to myself.”

“Meek, you’re drunk.” I pushed him off me. “What is going on? You don’t usually drink like this.” I snatched the glass from his hand.

“It’s Nikki.”

“What about her?”

I figured that she wasn’t going to let him go, which is why I wasn’t taking anything he was saying serious. What woman in her right mind would let a King man go? Shameek probably took good care of her. She wasn’t going to go out without a fight.

“She’s dead,” he blurted.

“What? Are you okay? I know how you felt about her.”

“I killed her,” he said lowly.

“Excuse me?”

“She found out about us. We got into it. She had some shit on me she should’ve never had, started threatening to blow everything up, and I lost it. I shot her.”

I swallowed hard. Shameek killing her for me was not what I wanted. If he would do that to her, this jealous shit he had with Lloyd was making me look at him differently.

“What kind of shit did she have on you that you had to shoot her?”

“Old family business that no one should know about.”

“You killed her because she threatened to expose you?”

“I’m a King. You don’t hold somethin’ over my head that can fuck my entire world up. She knew who I was, but to dig and find some shit because her feelings were hurt was goin’ too far.”

I just stood there in silence.

“Say something.”