Ruffian 2 (Sequel)

19.

Shanell
Moments later

I sat on the toilet with Cain's gigantic shirt on now as he stood there with no shirt, opening and closing the medicine cabinet as he went on grabbing different things.

Everybody else had already helped me and cleaned me up from all of the blood but he was taking the initiative to do more and I couldn't help but to appreciate that.

More so because I'd thought he hated me enough to not even care that I was going through this right now.

I thought he would turn the other cheek and just say that it wasn't his problem but he'd showed me a different side of him.

Which I couldn't help but to appreciate.

"Put this on your face, BG." He spoke sternly to me, passing me the ice pack again as I held it onto my eye.

As I did, he cleaned up the mess we'd made and put everything back into the medicine cabinet.

I couldn't help but to stare at him and his muscular chest as he stood there in front of me with his tattoos exposed.

I can't lie, I felt so protected in this moment and that was all I'd long for an hour ago.

"Come on, ma." He then spoke softly to me as he grabbed my hand before we made our way out of the bathroom then toward the back bed room.

When we did, we could hear loud talking as Delante's voice and all of Cain's friends were downstairs talking about the situation.

"I told her to stay away from these niggas but she wanted to fuck with the opps, now she wun' cry!" I could hear Delante saying as we made our way into the room.

When we did, the room was still dark as Cain closed and locked the door behind us.

He then made his way over to the bed before he pulled me toward him and looked up into my eyes. I removed the ice pack from my face as it soon began to feel like it had a heart beat again.

Both of my eyes aching painfully now.

It wasn't unbearable though as I stood there, trying my hardest not to cry again.

"Babygirl."

"I'm gon' need you to tell me who did this shit." Cain went on saying to me now and I nodded slowly, remembering only one guy's name but hesitant to say it.

I knew I had to though and I'd told him that I would.

"The one that did this.." I spoke softly, pointing to my face.

"His name is Luck or something like that."

"But his real name is Karl." I ended up blurting out to him and he twisted his lip up when I did.

"Oh yeah?" He asked in amusement as if he knew exactly who I was talking about before he licked his lips.

"Who else? Who else was there with y'all?" He went on, wanting more information now but I really didn't have it.

I didn't know these guys, Lima didn't even really know them. She just knew that these were guys they'd had beef with before so she invited them over.

"I'm not really sure." I admitted to him with a slight shake to my head.

I really didn't know.

"Aight."

"Okay." He nodded, gently pushing me out of his way as he stood to his feet before he caught himself and turned to me.

He then calmed himself and grabbed my hands as he softly sat me down now.

"Look-"

"Tell me sum', Babygirl."