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“You’re a creep, you know that?” I shrugged. “I might be a little unhinged.” “A little? You sat here with your gun out so other men wouldn’t look at us.” “At you. And I made my point.” “What point?” I cleared my throat. “Do any of you niggas see this woman right here?” Nobody said anything. “No takers?” Again, silence. I turned back to her. “That point.”
She was addicting, and I felt the last loose screw come undone. Behind her, I would become completely unhinged.
We pulled up to a stoplight, and he turned to me. Before I knew it, his hand was wrapped around my throat, and he gave a gentle squeeze. “What did I tell you about that?” he asked, forcing my body to follow the pull of his arm. “You like being hardheaded, don’t you?”
“Pack you a bag. You’re coming home with me.” Just like that, I was sprung.
“Make no mistake. I’d never let any harm come to you. Anybody that fucks with you can get it.” He pecked my lips. “Come eat.”
“I love you. You’re my woman, and one of these days, you’re gonna be my wife. You okay with that?” I blushed as I nodded. “Yeah… I’m okay with that.” “Good, ’cause you ain’t really had a choice.” I laughed. “How did I not have a choice?”
“Either you gon’ be with me, I’m gon’ be with you, or we gon’ be together.”
“Like I just did. I told you; you’re my woman and you’re gonna be my wife. Who the hell do you think you’re gonna be with after me?” “That is toxic and possessive.” “No, baby. That’s real.”
“I love you and you love me. We can be Barney and the gang, or we can be Freddy versus Jason ’round this muthafucka, but you can’t get rid of me. Now, I have some business to attend to today. When I get back, I’m gonna cook a nice meal for you and your mama, and we are gonna eat dinner like the family we are.”
Salima had me fucked up. Break up? Take a break? What the fuck was that? She wasn’t going anywhere, and neither was I, so she’d better get that thought out of her thick ass head.
If Salima wanted space, the only space she was getting was from one room to the next.
