Page 86 of Repo'd His Heart
“Andyou don’t have a reason to.” I replied back evenly, not breaking eye contact.
I can imagine what was going through Marlo’s at the moment. But he drew his line in the sand, and he couldn’t go back on it because he saw me around other niggas. That wasn’t how this was going to work. The main reason I offered him an explanation was to deescalate things. Having Sunshyne’s uncles beefing with Marlo and Mikael over nothing would be stupid because they were going to actively be a part of our lives. I’m positive this wouldn’t be the last time they’d run into each other.
“Ain’t you carryin’ my seed?”I gave Marlo a blank expression, he was stating the obvious.
“Solana, this nigga be putting his hands on you?” Niko spoke up before Marlo could say anything else.
“Nigga you sound dumb as fuck. Who the fuck I look like?” Marlo replied appalled with his face bawled up.
“No, Niko I-” I said, placing a hand up only to be cut off.
“Don’t explain ya self to this nigga. The fuck, I’m the only muthafucka you explain ya self to.” Marlo said, cutting his eyes to me.
“Aye, come mer. Unky got you something.” Mikael said as he reached over, picking Sunshyne up out of the booth.
I made eye contact with Mikael thanking him with my eyes. Marlo didn’t come here for peace and Sunshyne had heard enough of the heated exchange.
“Nah, let me up. Ion trust that nigga,” Yaro made his way out the booth following behind Mikael and Sunshyne.
I blew out a breath of frustration. This was too much for me. “I’m shooting no questions asked behind any of my brothers.” Niko said, sitting back down in his seat.
“Guns bust both ways. Cause Ion play about mine either. It ain’t nothing, just say the word.” Marlo grunted looking at Niko with hate in his eyes.
“This is so unnecessary," I groaned looking between the two of them. “Marlo, I’m only explaining this to keep confusion down. I ran into Niko a while ago. Found out there had been some misunderstandings about somethings and they wanted to establish their relationship with Sunshyne. That’s it, that's all. Niko, this is Marlo, he’s helped me a lot. He’s not a threat to me or Sunshyne.”
“If you gon’ introduce me do the shit the right way. I’m her nigga, Sunshyne’s stepdad and she carryin’ my seed. A nigga like me ain’t found of niggas poppin’ up outta nowhere. Especially when they left my girl in a fucked up situation.” Marlo easily replied, placing his hands in front of himself as he squared his shoulders.
Niko didn’t say anything, he calmly looked up at Marlo. I tensed up waiting to see how he’d react. Niko might have been the calmest out of his brothers, but he still had a temper when it came down to it.
Niko gave a side grin, then he said. “I respect that. I know how I’d be over my bitch. As long as you doing right by my niece and Solana we good. We just tryna be a part of our niece’s life. She all we got left of our brother.”
“We can make that happen as long as no bullshit going on.” Marlo replied.
“Fa’ sho,” Niko nodded.
I sighed a breath of relief, happy that they didn’t let their egos make this situation worse than it had to be.
“Come here, I need to talk to you,” Marlo said, nudging then grabbing my hand to pull me up.
I rolled my eyes because I really didn’t care to hear anything he had to say but I went to keep things calm.
“I’ll call you Niko and we can set up a time for y’all to pick up Sunshyne.”
“That’s cool,” Niko replied and I saw the frown on Marlo's face when I mentioned calling Niko, but I didn’t care.
“What the fuck,” Marlo said with a grin once we made it outside to the parking lot.
“Look at these niggas,” Niko chuckled as he came standing next to me.
“That’s better!” Sunshyne happily said, clapping her hands together. “My Unkies can’t fight now. Member if you fight again you gotta hug for five minutes next time. Sunshyne said, holding up her five fingers.
We all laughed watching as Yaro and Mikael pulled back from the awkward hug, they were just in. Leave it to Sunshyne to have two grown niggas hugging it out in the parking lot.
Mikael and Yaro both gave us deep scowls and Mikael discreetly flipped us off.
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