Page 24 of Kissed By the Trillest Thug 2
She stood up so fast that the bed shifted.
“Malik!”
“It was a flesh wound,” I said as I rubbed the back of my neck.
“Malik!”
The disappointment in her voice hit harder than any yelling would have. I said that as if it would make the situation better. To me, it was better because I could have killed his ass, and she knew that. For a moment, neither one of us spoke. Then she shook her head and started pacing. The same way Maliah did when she was trying to make sense of something.
“There’s more to this.”
I stayed quiet because she was right.
“There has to be.”
She looked over at me.
“I bet you told Maliah she couldn’t see him anymore.”
“Yeah.”
“Without explaining why?” she questioned with a raised eyebrow.
“What exactly was I supposed to tell her?” I said with a sigh.
Eternity looked away. For a second I thought she was going to argue. Instead, her shoulders dropped, and when she spoke again, her voice was quieter.
“Shooting him wasn’t going to stop her from loving him.”
I frowned immediately. Because deep down? I knew that. Love wasn’t logical. If it was, half the people I knew would’ve ended up with somebody else. Eternity shook her head slowly.
“Love is strong, Malik.”
I looked away.
“You can’t get in the middle of something like that and expect it to disappear.”
Neither one of us said anything for a moment. Then her expression changed to fear, and I mean real fear.
“What if she went to him?”
“What?” I looked at her as I folded my arms over my broad chest.
“What if she went looking for him?”
My stomach tightened because now she was saying out loud exactly what I’d been thinking since I walked into this room.
“Maliah loves that boy,” her voice cracked slightly, “If she thought something happened to him…”
The rest didn’t need to be said because we both knew. Eternity’s eyes widened.
“Oh, my God.”
She looked toward the door.
“What if he’s angry?”
“What?” She was rambling now.
