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“Bitch, do you think I care about that? What? Are you fucking her too? Huh? You’ve got me out here feeling like a simp ass nigga. I’m doing everything I can to be the man you need, but you’ve got a mothafucka on your phone thanking you for being his rock and always being in his corner. Do you have any idea how that makes me feel? Huh, bitch?”

I could hear the sound as he kicked and stomped me out. All that could be heard was my soft whimpers as his foot made contact with my body over and over.

“I got something for your ass. I bet you’ll delete his number from your phone after I get done with you.” Rondell threatened before dragging me into the bathroom, turning on the shower and beating my ass until he grew tired.

Shame took over me as I stood there listening to myself grunting and pleading for mercy. My eyes closed in embarrassment when I heard the sound of Rondell forcing my mouth open to suck his dick. It happened a couple of months ago, after I reached out to tell Solomon how proud I was of him.

“I’m gonna kill him,” Solo declared.

My eyes shot open as panic set in.

“Solly, please. You can’t do anything to him.”

“What? Have you lost your fucking mind? You might as well call Messiah and have him find me a lawyer who can at least get me a decent plea deal. He’s a goner.”

Solomon dropped the phone before rushing out of the room. I heeded his warning and called my brother, begging him to get there as fast as he could. In all the years I had known him, I had never seen him so angry before, and I was afraid of what he would do if he got his hands on Rondell.

Rondell’s father was rich and powerful, and he wouldn’t hesitate to lock him up for putting his hands on their golden child. Solomon had no idea who he was up against.

Draike, Tommie and a couple other guys followed after Solomon to attempt to calm him down and all I could do was pray someone got through to him.

Thirty minutes passed and phone was going off back-to-back after I turned my ringer back on. I thought about ignoring everyone until I got things settled with Solomon, but something told me to see what was going on.

The first set of messages were videos of Solomon beating Rondell’s ass. Rondell’s friends tried to help him, but Draike and Tommie jumped in, and they didn’t stand a chance.

I kept calling Solomon’s phone because I was worried he may have been arrested. An hour had gone by, and he still hadn’t returned. I called Tommie, and she told me they were lying low at her brother’s place because she knew Rondell would most likely press charges. The fight had been plastered all over social media, and it had already gone viral. Rondell cared too much about his image to let it slide. He would need to do some serious damage control.

After another hour went by, Messiah and my cousin Freedom showed up to my place. I greeted them, but I didn’t get a chance to fill them in before my phone started going off again.

Rahel sent a link to someone on live, which confused me, but then I realized several other people had sent me the same link. When I clicked on it, my body froze. Rondell was sitting in front of the camera with a deranged look in his eyes.

“Honesty, baby please listen to me. I don’t care about that bitch. I don’t care about that punk ass nigga either!” Rondell’s words were slurred, and his eyes were bloodshot red. He was in a room, but it wasn’t one I recognized.

“I can’t believe you got me out here like this. Crying and shit.” Rondell wiped his face with the bottom of his shirt.

“You and I were supposed to be endgame. I was gonna go to the NBA and become a legend, and you were gonna be a beautiful trophy wife, sitting pretty in the WAGS section, shitting on all those other bitches. We were supposed to have a big ass wedding that would be televised so the world could see our love, but you had to fuck it up. You let the outside world infiltrate our bubble, and now it’s all ruined.” Ron ranted.

I gasped when he lifted his right hand and tapped a gun on the side of his head. I shook my head no, even though he couldn’t see me, because no matter what we went through, I never wanted it to come to this.

“I fucked up, baby. I should have never fucked those girls, but you fucked up too. I kept telling you I wasn’t comfortable with that nigga being around you, but you refused to cut him off. If you had taken my feelings into consideration, I would have never fucked those hoes. You made me feel like I wasn’t enough, and I made some dumb decisions. Then you killed my baby and thought I wouldn’t notice.”

My mouth fell open at his revelation. I thought for sure I had done a good job hiding what I had done. Seven months ago, I found out I was pregnant, and I freaked out. I wasn’t ready for a baby, and our relationship was so shaky, I didn’t feel comfortable bringing a child into the world when we didn’t have our shit together. I ended up calling Solomon in the middle of the night and begging him to take me to my appointment at the clinic.

After the procedure was over, I pretended like I had a family emergency and had to go home to Jonah Hills for a week. Solomon let me crash at his place until I was ready to go back to school. Nobody knew the truth except for Tommie because Kira talked too much, and Rahel and I weren’t as close. Rondell acted as if everything was normal, so I thought I was in the clear. Obviously, I must not have covered my tracks as well as I thought.

“I spent months tracking your periods and making sure I nutted in you every time we fucked. I knew the exact moment when you missed your period, and I couldn’t wait to celebrate us becoming parents. Imagine my surprise when you came back home from visiting your family and your period miraculously showed up.” Ronny chuckled angrily.

“You must have thought I was stupid, but I saw right through the bullshit. What I didn’t realize was that your family knew nothing about you visiting at all. Your momma called one day looking for you, and when I mentioned you left the ring I bought you at her house, she said she hadn’t seen you since Christmas break. That’s when I saw the message from your bestie saying he found your promise ring under his bed and he was planning to throw it away.

“You took your ass down to the clinic and had my baby sucked out of you without any concern for how it would make me feel, but what made it worse was that you let him take you to kill my baby and then spent a week in his bed. What kind of grimy shit is that? To this day, I wonder if the baby even belonged to me. I bet you had a good laugh at my expense, didn’t you?”

“You had me fooled this whole time. I thought you loved me, but it’s obvious the love was one-sided. I did everything I could to show you how special you were to me, but I was never gonna be enough as long as he was in the picture. I sacrificed everything for you. I got rid of my last chance to become a father because I didn’t want anything if it wasn’t coming from you. Now my life is over because you put him before me. Do you see what you made me do!” Rondell shouted, jumping up from his seat.

He paced the dark room until he finally flipped his camera and revealed something so horrifying that I instantly grew sick. There, on the floor, was Leora’s lifeless body with a bullet in the center of her forehead. Her eyes were wide open, and I wasn’t sure I would ever get that image out of my head.

“My dad always taught me that you have to break a woman down until she submits, but you bitches just wouldn’t follow my lead. I told Leo that as long as she kept her mouth shut, she could be put up and taken care of for the rest of her life, but the bitch refused to listen. Everybody wanted to do what they wanted to do, and now it’s all over.”

I felt a presence near me, but I couldn’t pull myself away from the screen. My mind couldn’t even process the fact that Rondell had killed someone and ruined his entire life.