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“His mother clearly doesn’t want him, he’s malnourished, he’s dirty, and she brought him to the drop-in session today with full intent to leave him behind. I’m pretty sure he’s been beaten too. When I went to strap him in the car he flinched when I leaned over him, and when I carried him in here he screeched. I saw some nasty bruises on his ribs when I checked under his shirt. He’s scared, Jessie. He doesn’t need the police or child services. He needs to be cared for.”
“Jesus, Shan.” I bury my head in my hands when I realize she’s not budging on this.
“So, what do you need me to do?” I sigh helplessly.
“I need you to be in my corner. When Troj gets home and tries to talk me out of this, I need you to have my back.” I hadn’t even thought about how my best friend is gonna react to this yet.
“Shan, you realize you can’t keep him, right?” I check. Knowing her sweet nature and her need to care for all the people around her is gonna have her growing attached to this kid.
“Yeah, I realize that, but I can take care of him for now. His mother knows where to find me, maybe she’ll come back for him.”
“Even if she does, would you let her take him back? She’s hardly done a good job of takin’ care of him, and how do you know those bruises on him didn’t come from her?”
“I don’t,” she admits. “But everyone’s got a story and I’m hoping that she might come back and tell me hers.”
“You're too good for this world, Shaniya Knox. Good fuckin’ job that ya got a big brother who’s always gonna have your back.” I shake my head and she nearly topples me over when she wraps her arms around my waist and squeezes me tight.
“Thank you, Jess,” she whispers.
“Go get that boy a bath. I’ll go see if Riley can spare some clean clothes for him. He looks around the same age as Gabriel, and for God’s sake get a decent meal inside him.”
The boy’s eyes follow me warily when I head back into the lounge and I crouch down in front of him.
“Ya got nothin’ to fear from us, kid. Shaniya here is gonna take real good care of ya,” I promise. The kid says nothing, just stares vacantly back at me. He must be hella confused.
I stand up and glance over my shoulder to my sister, who’s watching with a warm smile on her lips before I face him again.
“You may not feel it right now, but you just got real lucky,” I tell him under my breath, knowing there ain’t a gentler pair of hands he could be in.
Ihold one of Addison's pert round tits in my hand as she grinds herself on my cock. She’s about to come, I can tell by the desperate breaths she’s making and how her head’s fallen back. The way she throbs around me catches me up to her, and I hold her hips tight, keeping myself inside her as I empty.
“Do you have to leave today?” She flops forward, her long, brown hair tickling my neck as I grip both her ass cheeks in my hands and kiss her shoulder.
“Afraid so, darlin’.” I’ve got mixed emotions about leaving her, part of me can’t wait to make the man she fears suffer, the other part of me wants to stay inside this bubble we’ve created.
“I don’t like the idea of you being away from me. I’ve gotten used to having you close,” she admits.
“Got no reason to be scared. We know Abraham’s there, Tripp’s certain as he can be that all the Elders are. And I know Jessie will take good care of you while I’m gone.” I stroke my fingers through her hair before I reach for the nightstand and grab the sonogram photo from the top drawer.
“You looking at that thing again?” She giggles.
“I’m gonna look at it every day ‘til we get an updated version. Thought I’d take it with me if that's okay with you?”
“Do you need to keep looking at it to make it feel real?” she asks, sitting back up and resting her hands on my chest.
“Maybe.” I shrug. “I never thought I’d be so grateful for a pill failin’.” I laugh to myself before I place it safely back in the drawer.
“What pill?” She stares back at me confused.
“Your birth control pills,” I remind her.
“I wasn’t taking any birth control pills.”
“Sure you were, you had ‘em on the list of stuff you wanted me to get from your house.”
“Skid, those were sleeping tablets. I asked for them because I was having bad night terrors. I didn’t even think about contraception, I got so swept up in everything that was happening, getting pregnant was the last thing on my mind. I was just…” I notice her starting to panic like she thinks she’s done something wrong.
“Hey…” I grab her shoulders and drag her body back onto mine. “It doesn’t matter how it happened.”
