Ruffian 2 (Sequel)

14.

Shanell
The next week

So you're telling me this all happened last week and not one of y'all thought to call me?!" Ms. Alexander yelled as Me and Lima sat in her living room, looking at her like lost puppies.

Bianca and Markeeda were back at home now but Markeeda ended up telling everybody about what went down when she went out with us last week. Word ended up spreading so quickly back to Ms. Alexander as the whole family talked about it now.

"And Shanny, after all Cairo has done, he still decided to kick you out of y'all's home and try to take Mya away again?"

"After all that talk of him saying he was going to change?"

"He waited two years to do this all over again?" She went on asking me for clarification, obviously getting most of her information from other people so I shook my head, not even planning to lie anymore.

I was done lying and I was done sneaking. This was serious and things had become way too deep.

Me and Cain's mess had become way too deep.

"No."

"He didn't kick me out. He told me that I could come home if I wanted to but if I did he was going to make my life a living hell." I spoke truthfully, telling her his exact words through text.

Saying he kicked me out would be too easy. I needed her to see how evil her son actually was.

"Look." I told her, showing her the messages on my shattered phone's screen that Cain had sent to me once I'd texted him asking about our daughter.

It'd been a week without me seeing Mya now and I was losing my mind daily behind all of this. All I wanted was my daughter and no more problems with Cain.

So no, I wasn't going home not because I couldn't but because Cain wasn't letting up on me at all and I had nobody to help me. So now I was staying with Lima until further notice and until I could find a place that worked for both me and my daughter.

"So what happened after this?" Ms. Alexander couldn't help but to ask, finishing up as she scrolled my messages.

"Once I told him that I wasn't coming home, he told me that Mya is his and I could only see her once I stop acting like a hoe—

"—because she doesn't need a hoe for a mom." I went on snitching on him completely because I wanted everybody to see how he was treating me.

After two whole years of him doing better, being a great boyfriend and being an amazing father. With twelve whole years of me holding him down and doing what I needed to do as a woman, he decided he wanted to throw everything away because of a drunken mistake.

Again.

Now we were done and done for good this time.

There was no coming back from this humiliation, he'd made it clear that he didn't respect me at all and now I didn't have any respect for him.

If it wasn't for Mya, he could die for all I cared.

"Okay, so, he's back to his nonsense after telling me that he was going to do better and finally propose." She went on saying and I looked down at my hands, nodding in guilt.

"Yes." I admitted, knowing I felt bad for what I'd done that night last week and I knew I was wrong but nothing could add up to what he'd done to me.

He'd took things way too far and all I'd did was text another man. I still hadn't had sex with anyone but him though I should've.

"Okay and Delante put his hands on you, right?" She went on asking Lima as Lima sat there obviously ready to lose it, just like I was.

"Yes, mommy!" She yelled angrily as she sat there with a scowl on her face while her knee bounced up and down rapidly.