Chaz stared at her, stunned. He was frozen in denial. His heart crumbled. “You killed our baby? How the fuck could you do some foul shit like that?”

“How could you do the foul shit that you did?” Kennedy snapped, rolling her neck, “You done lost all rights to question anything I do. Go question your bum-ass baby mother.”

“I know this shit with Ria is messed up, and it’s hurting you, but you’re dead wrong for aborting the baby. Our baby. My baby.”

“So the fuck what—I had an abortion. You got another baby on the way with your broke-down loser baby mother. Obviously, you didn’t need one by your wife.” Kennedy pulled the covers back and stretched out, her back to him.

Chaz stood in silence, looking at her, and anger began to consume his body. He yanked the covers off Kennedy and snatched her out of the bed by her neck, tossing her onto the floor. “Get the fuck out of my bed,” he yelled. “Get up out my house, yo. You got me fucked up if you think you gonna stay here and you done killed my seed.” Chaz began pulling her clothes from the dresser drawers and throwing them at her. He went into her walk-in closet and began snatching her clothes off the racks.

Kennedy scrambled to her feet. “You want me to leave you, fuck-ass nigga?” she shouted, running up on him. Kennedy grabbed her clothes from his hands. “I’m not going nowhere, nigga. My name is on this mortgage too. You get the fuck out. You started all this shit. You fucked that dirty whore baby mama of yours and got her pregnant again. So you go be with her and ya ready-made family.”

Chaz grabbed Kennedy by the chin with one hand and squeezed her face hard. “This ain’t no negotiation, you selfish-ass mean bitch! Get ya shit and get the fuck up outta here.”

Kennedy looked him square in the eyes and told him, “Like I said, I’m not going anywhere. If you want me outta here, you going to have to kill me, then drag my dead body outta here.”

Chapter 13

Mommy, Mommy, Mommy,” Kai said, shaking Kisa as she slept on the couch.

“Yes, Kai, what do you need, baby?” Kisa asked groggily, her eyes closed. It was the first little bit of sleep that she’d gotten in the two days since Butta had been shot. Much hadn’t changed. There was still no word from Sincere and Shawn. Frustration was eating away all of her patience.

“I want my daddy now.” Kai whined, which she’d been doing since she’d arrived with Lena and Christen the day before. They had come up so that Kisa could get them registered to attend school starting right after the Christmas break.

“Kai, I told you, your daddy had to go out of town on an emergency trip.”

“Call him, Mommy.”