Page 9 of Kissed By the Trillest Thug 2

“Yeah,” he answered. “What about him?”

I exhaled slowly.

“He’s the one that robbed my auto shops.”

That quieted him down just enough.

“For real? You sure?”

“Yeah, you know damn well I don’t move on anything unless I’m one hundred percent sure. I can’t wrap my mind around him doing some shit like that and then sitting up in my face like shit is sweet.”

There was a brief pause on his end, like he was putting the timeline together.

“So how are you handling it?” he asked.

I leaned my head back slightly as my eyes drifted up toward the ceiling.

“I shot him,” I said.

Ty went quiet for half a second, then let out a breath.

“And?” he asked.

I already knew that he was asking if I killed his ass, and honestly, I should have.

“I let him live, but he was screaming.” A slight edge of amusement slipped into my tone. “He was carrying on like I did something crazy. He was being dramatic as hell.”

Ty let out a short laugh.

“He was screaming because getting shot fucking hurts,” he said plainly.

I smirked a little at that as my mind drifted for a second.

Years ago, Ty had caught some bullets himself. So, I knew that his ass could relate to that pain. I looked back at the screen.

“What’s it like, though?” I asked him while a grin pulled at my mouth. “Catching lead. I never had the pleasure.”

Ty stared at me through the phone like I had lost my mind.

“Man, you better go knock on some of that French imported wood you got up in that mansion,” he said. “You out here jinxing yourself talking like that.”

I let out a quiet laugh while shaking my head.

“I’m just asking a question,” I added with a chuckle.

“Yeah, well, ask somebody else that dumb shit,” he shot back. “Ain’t nothing enjoyable about that experience.”

I leaned forward slightly and rested my elbows on my knees as I let the humor settle. For a moment, neither of us said anything. Then my mind shifted right back to where it had been before the call. Maliah was all that I could think about right now in the moment. I exhaled slowly as my expression tightened just a little.

“I told Mali that she can’t see him no more,” I said.

Ty’s face changed slightly, like he already knew that wasn’t going to be simple.

“And how did that go?” he asked.

I let out a breath through my nose. Seeing my baby girl standing in front of me in tears over my request wasn’t easy to witness, but it had to be done.

“She ain’t got a choice.”