Chapter 49

The good, the bad and the ugly, that’s the best way I could describe what happened the next few months leading up to my wedding.

The bad and the ugly went hand and hand so I’ll tell you about that first.

Well, I received so much fucking hell when I got home about Spin, my fiancé who gave me a diamond ring that I am sure could be used to feed a small country. It was heavy as hell too. I avoided Vicky and King who were not trying to be anywhere near Spin and whom I’m sure was plotting on me. I was invited to Spin’s, and since our relationship was now public knowledge and I was future wifey… I mean there was just no way I could say ‘no.’ There was no valid excuse I could use. I was marrying him so I’d have to get use to his lifestyle, but knowing I’d be facing the wrath of Vicky and King I went home with him… you know, just to get it over with. Okay y’all know why I went damn.

But as you know I couldn’t hide and duck calls forever.

First was King.

“ARE, YOU, FUCKING, CRAZY?!” King asked through clinched teeth.

I gave a shy smile; I was ready with an answer. I sat down on a couch.

“King, don’t do this to me. You knew what I was doing, and now I’m in the lion’s den. Yes it is dangerous, we’ve established that, but I’m a big girl and can hold my own. I need to find out what happened to my brother… please, don’t stand in the way of that.” I rubbed the Tiffany’s heart Free had given me for dramatic effect. We just stood staring at one another. After a few long seconds he sighed, and his face changed. It went from rage to somewhere in-between anger and sympathy, or was it understanding? Hell, I was just happy he wasn’t mad. “Trust me, please.” I tried to make it seem like I was begging him and needed him. Why? Shit, I don’t know, probably because I did in some strange way. “I got this nigga wide open.”

We lapsed into silence, and I could tell he was thinking and thinking hard. He took a deep breath and said, “I’m not concerned about how wide open he is Shi. I’m concerned about how wide open yo’ nose is rogue.”

I blinked saying nothing, that’s all I could do. Sure I could have easily told him I had no feeling for Spin but…

Next, was Vicky and before she got a chance to speak I did.

“Be happy for me, please! I’m one step closer.”

She sighed, “I don’t like him and I’m scared for you Shi.” I nodded, I could understand that. “And I won’t act like I do like him.”

And that was the end. It wasn’t so bad, I guess. Okay, it was. I could see the hurt in King’s eyes and to stop it from eating me alive I kept telling myself he had a woman and a kid. We’d been over for so long though I knew he still had feelings for me like I had for him.

“Shi, don’t make me kill him,” King said looking into my eyes.

I would never have thought him capable until I saw the look in those green eyes. They were dark. After he had his say he got up and left and he barely called or spoke to me after that.

The next part was Vicky found herself a man. She met him at the club, and his name was K.C. Yes, the K.C.

It was all bad and ugly. Vicky was already too deep in this shit, and I did not like it. She was too close to the danger, and it was so not cool.