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“Don’t even think about moving. I want to carry all your weight.”
“Set up some Grey’s or something. I’ma get cleaned up. I’ll be out in a minute,” he said.
A man after my own heart ❤️
She would be as respectful to Messiah’s feelings as possible, but she wasn’t coming up off Ahmeek.
“All roads lead back to you. No matter what happens, no matter who is against it, no matter where life takes us. I want to love you for the rest of my life, Ahmeek.”
“Livi is not a factor when it comes to you, Mo. Nobody’s a fucking factor when it comes to you,” Ahmeek stated. “I gave up my best friend for you! Why can’t you get that through your head?! Nobody comes before you!”
“You’re my fucking sun, love,”
“I would have changed your life, Morgan Atkins,” he said. “Not on no rich shit. I know you papered up. You don’t need a nigga money. You got that, but the shit you chasing. The shit you missing. I’ll give you all that, everything you want. You ain’t even got to ask. All the attention, all the focus, all the love, all the dick, the support, all the time, all the family, whatever the fuck you pray for at night, I got it racked up waiting on you and I ain’t never wanted to give that shit to nobody else. But you need it, so I got it. You want it, so I want it too, with you. We been waiting for our
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“I ain’t never handled you with the intent to cause pain, love. I was soft on you on purpose. I don’t even know how we became this.”
“From the beginning, Morgan. For the plot on Ethic, from not telling you about the conversation with Messiah to letting you stay in London too long before coming to see about you to Livi. Every way that I hurt you or put in on your hurt, I’m fucking sorry, love.”
Maybe she was the throw-away girl that no man would ever keep because she was too damaged.
Man🥹🥹🥹🥹
“Don’t break, Morgan Atkins. Don’t ever break for nobody,” he whispered in her ear.
His words, the affirming, the fucking care. It clouded her mind, it infected her because she wanted this man. She wanted him like she wanted air, but now he was the one hurting her.
No get over this and get your man
“If there’s a black eye under them glasses, I’m about to chop the whole fucking city up,” Messiah said.
This is the side of Messiah I love
“Red eyes get niggas dropped too,” Messiah said. He had never been about the play play when it came to Morgan. “Start talking shorty before I make assumptions.”
A baby shouldn’t have been the anchor that kept me in pocket, shorty. I know the bond we made.
I shouldn’t have had to hear the words to choose you. I can fucking tell you the night they were made, on the fucking couch you sitting on. You begged a nigga, and I left anyway without even thinking about what I promised you and what you promised me. You kept your promise. They’re breathing upstairs,” Messiah said.
A provider. A protector. A man she could count on.
Fucking lie to a nigga. Bat them pretty eyes and ask a nigga for a bankroll or something. Do the easy shit. Fuck the truth.”
“What is that, Mo? The loving two people at once?” Ethic asked genuinely confused.
Morgan sighed. “You love two people at once, Ethic. You love Alani. You would do anything for her. Your every breath is taken to make her life better and you love Raven. You love her in a way that you can never let go, never leave her behind, never not honor her.”
“That’s different though, Mo,” Et...
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“It wasn’t different when it started with me and Ahmeek. It was exactly the same,” Morgan whispered. “Now imagine if Raven came back. If you woke up tomorrow and she just showed up on your doorstep. You wouldn’t be able to stop loving Alani just because Raven decided to come back and no matter how mad you would be at Raven for her absence, for the questions that will never quite have answers that make sense, you wouldn’t be ...
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“Go in the building Messiah before you inherit a bigger problem,” Ethic said calmly.
“And that house shit? That’s a form of control. Mo’s young so she don’t know that, but she ain’t living there. I ain’t taking my hands off her no more because she ain’t fully got it yet, and I can’t trust you to take care of her without thinking of yourself first. They’ll be there tonight, but tomorrow she’s getting her own shit. Where access will be granted when she says so, not whenever you want,” Ethic said. “I love you like a son, Messiah.”
An unhealed man can’t lead
“You can’t be fucking serious, B. You got the best parts of me. I gave Morgan the fucking least. I lied to her face every day. I still lie to that girl, afraid to tell her the real shit she need to know. I embarrassed her. I cheated on her. I left her here to die, B. I left here with you. I’m living out every regret over the shit I did to her. You’ve always gotten the truth, no matter how hard it was because you’re my best friend and I didn’t have to pretend to be better than I was for you to fuck with me. I hurt that girl. So yeah, Mo can have her way. She can flex her muscle a little
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