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“We’re fine. Kyenna just stopped by for a little while. Where you coming from?” My mama asked.
“Nikki’s,” I said, making eye contact with Kyenna.
“Everything cool with y’all?” My mama asked.
“We cool.”
“Goodnight, Ma. I’ll call you tomorrow.”
“Okay, baby.” She hugged her.
My mama walked back towards the house, and neither Kyenna nor I said another word until the front door closed behind her. Then Kyenna turned towards me.
“This is not the place.”
I backed up and threw my hands up. Her tone let me know she was pissed about something.
“You mad ‘bout some shit or somethin’? It feels like you got an attitude.”
“I said not here. Your mama probably looking out the damn window.”
“Aight, then where?”
“Not my place.”
“Come to mine,” I told her.
“Oh, hell no. I am not coming to your place.”
“You scared?” I asked, smiling.
“You just left Nikki’s house. There is nothing to be scared of. I’m sure you handled your business over there.”
“That’s what you got from that? Come over so we can talk.”
“I can’t. It will be too obvious.”
“I’ll come scoop you up in the golf cart in an hour. By then, my mama will be on her second glass of wine and in the bed.”
“This shit is crazy.”
Kyenna didn’t agree, but I knew she would come when I pulled up. We grabbed her door handle at the same time.
“Move yo’ hand,” I warned her, and she instantly moved it. I opened the car door and let her climb in. “I’ll see you in an hour. Don’t have me out there waitin’ either. We both kno’ I’ll come in.”
An hour exactly, I was pulling up to Kyenna’s front door in a pair of grey jogging pants and a tank top. I sent her a text, and she popped out the door in a pair of jeans and a shirt. I laughed inside because she really went out of her way to change into some fucking jeans like them bitches couldn’t come off.
“Do not drive fast on this thing,” she said.
I hit the gas, making her head jerk just for the fuck of it. I made sure to stop at her security guard and give that nigga some cash. It was important to keep their pockets laid because they knew what the fuck was going on, and I needed them to keep the shit quiet. I parked the golf cart in the garage and closed the door. I opened the door and let her go in first. The last time she was here, she had stopped by with Rah, and that was over two years ago.
“I had lunch with Jaharee a few days ago,” she said before I could ask her ass if she was thirsty.
“And? Y’all do that shit all the time.”
“She noticed you watching me and Lloyd at the event. She also noticed the two of us disappeared around the same time. Thankfully, she assumed you pulled me aside because you were being overbearing about Lloyd again, and I let her believe it.”
“She say anything else?”
