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“You good?” Kyenna looked up at Lloyd.

“I’m great.”

“Good, I’ll be waiting on your email tomorrow.”

Lloyd gathered his shit and left. Kyenna got up and walked into her private bathroom and closed the door. That left Jaharee and me in the office. She couldn’t wait for Kyenna to close that door so she could bust out laughing.

“What the fuck is so funny?”

“You, nigga. Every time that man comes around Kyenna, you start glitching out. Nigga, are you cool?”

“I’m straight.”

“Meek, you’ve never acted this way. You don’t have access to that girl’s schedule but you stood your ass here and invented a make believe meeting trying to stop her from having lunch with Lloyd.”

“I don’t trust a nigga up under her,” I said, giving the same answer I had been giving everybody.

“Why?”

“’Cause Rah trusted him, and now he’s always in her face. That shit ain’t weird to you?”

“I can say the same about you. You’re always in her face now, too. Kyenna is grown and can make her own decisions. She can pick and choose who she wants around her. Grow the fuck up and learn the difference between protecting and possession.”

Kyenna came out of the bathroom drying her hands.

“I’m going downstairs to get me a damn drink. Y’all can finish whatever weird sibling-in-law argument y’all got going on.” Jaharee grabbed her purse and walked out.

I closed and locked the door behind her and looked dead at Kyenna.

“Did you tell my sister somethin’ that I should kno’ ‘bout?”

“No, I didn’t tell her anything because I’m not trying to blow up this family. But if you keep acting like a jealous boyfriend every time that man is around, I’m not going to tell her shit. She has eyes. And I told you that if you played the back-and-forth game between Nikki and me, I was going to embarrass you,” she said.

“That’s what this is ‘bout?”

“No, it’s not actually. You brought your ass into my office with the bullshit. I was letting you spend your time with your girlfriend.”

“She has never been my girlfriend.”

“Whatever she is, Meek.” She rolled her eyes.

I moved closer to her, and she put her hand up.

“Why you gotta go have lunch wit’ that nigga though? Y’all talk enough. What else is there to talk ‘bout?”

“Because I want to have lunch with him and I enjoy his company.”

“What you enjoy is pissin’ me the fuck off,” I said, pulling her up from her chair. “Give me a kiss.”

“I’m not giving you shit. As good as you eat my pussy, I’m sure you had your face in hers last night.”

All I could do was smile. “The last pussy I ate was yours. I’ll do it now if my nosy ass sister wasn’t in the building.”

“Bye, Shameek.”

I kissed her lips anyway and left before I did something that would get us caught. By the time I made it back to Nikki’s, I had told myself I was going to stay off my phone. That lasted maybe a few minutes. While she fixed dinner, I was sending text messages back and forth. Catching myself smiling before Nikki could catch me. As we ate, my phone kept going off, but I ignored it, trying to give Nikki her time.

“You came in smelling like perfume. I thought you were at the warehouses all day.”