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Ethic had been the foundation of his home, but it wasn’t until today did he learn that he wasn’t the one who held things together. Alani was the walls. She was the windows. She was the roof. She was the aroma inside. She provided the soundtrack with her yelling and 90’s R&B and her infectious laughter when she was putting Eazy to bed. She was all those things. Without her, the foundation was worthless.
light was a gift from above.
I need you to tell me why you would hand me off to Meek like I’m nothing cuz that’s the same thing Lucas did to me. When he was done, he gave his homeboy a turn. Why do niggas keep passing me off like I’m nothing?”
All he knew was survival. He viewed the world differently than Morgan. It was their greatest challenge in seeing eye to eye.
One thing I ain’t never doing is proving shit to a nigga that ain’t never proven himself to me.”
inconsistent love was worse than no love at all.
“Before any of us can point fingers at how someone else mishandled a situation, we have to see how we contributed to things,” Khadeen said. “That’s accountability.”
All a woman really wants is the right to make her own choice. Its called respect.”
“Love is not war, Messiah. The one you love brings you peace.”
If she was a plant, she’d be dying because you aren’t feeding her enough light and water.
I’d like to meet Morgan. I’d like to see the flower that’s distracting you from the plant.”
“Always a woman that makes crooked ways straight.”
“I want you bad. You like dope in my veins.
What is love? What is love worth? Love is not the thing you need to concern yourself with. Love gone come and love gone leave. That’s just what it does. That shit is so finicky, it’ll say I love you in the morning, and by the same night, you’ll find out it's somewhere else saying the same shit to someone else. Love is a trick, but baby you got to trick bigger.
Most of all, you let go of people who walk away from you. You lift your chin and you let them go.
Queens don’t chase, we sit, and we wait for the greatest man to prove his worth. That man will bring everything I just listed to you on a silver platter with no confusion involved.”
Don’t let your past with your father determine their future with theirs,”
“You think you got so much power until some shit happens that proves you’re powerless.”
“Sometimes the power is in the legacy, not the king,”
Ethic took lips to that tear like it was the only source of hydration amid a barren desert.
And ain’t, my nigga!” Isa said. “You even talking like yo’ bitch nigga, you love that shit,” Messiah
Nigga you not babysitting your own kids.
“Why because I ain’t afraid to tell you the truth? You use that pretty face and them sad eyes real good, but I know you. You thrive on attention, but every time you take your ass out here searching for attention, a nigga violate you. Then who you calling to save you?” Messiah asked. “You ain’t gone be satisfied until I’m locked up behind you.”
Stop fucking yelling with my kids here,” Messiah signed, switching the argument from verbal to ASL. “Fuck you and them bad ass fucking kids!” Morgan signed back.
This hoe so selfish and got to be the victim soooo bad she gone say some wild ass shit like that... Oh but let Messiah do it and its the end of the world. Fucking annoying
She was the most beautiful person he had ever met, even in her selfishness and despite her stubbornness.
“Nah this what a lost ass girl that niggas know they can bust down easily looks like. Make her a few promises, sell her a dream, and she putting pussy on a nigga the first night. You a walking billboard for low self-esteem, shorty and it’s a fucking disgrace because you used to be untouchable. Niggas knew not to even try you without losing their life. Now what they think of you?”
covered in his lies, dirtied up by betrayal.
Morgan wondered if Ahmeek was any different at all. In essence, he had committed the same crime as Messiah. He had shown her love, promised to be present, gained her trust with lies, and then left. The ways that shit hurt her was inexplicable.
The way he handled her was perfection. A gentle gangster with enough authority to straighten her out without making her fear him.
Her nigga, no matter the space, time, or distance because their b...
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You’re my fucking sun, love,” he said. His words brought the sunset
Two kids that belong to my nigga. You talking about some petty female shit, Livi talking slick. Messiah sent bullets my way. I’m at odds with a nigga I’ve known damn near my whole life over you, and I’m ten toes down because I stand on the decisions I make as a man. But you can’t accept a kid that I bring to the table? A kid that I made when we weren’t even rocking like that?

