𝐊𝐀𝐈𝐍 & 𝐄𝐁𝐄𝐋

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𝘿𝙪𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖

The skin around my face was red, warm to the touch, and filled with pellets of sweat and never-ending tears. My hands were clammy, threatening to let the pistol slip from its weak hold. They were shaking to the rhythm of my racing heart. I was terrified and broken by a past love. They say you never truly got over your first love. I was seeing for myself how true that was.

I managed to control the narrative of my love life. The media knew only what I allowed them to know. I faced a scandal so major that my father hated me still. Imagine that. I was a household name and loved all over the world. Still, my father viewed me as the fourteen year old pregnant harlot. He did all he could as my manager to keep my pregnancy hidden. His efforts weren't in vain. I had my baby girl Dove without the media even knowing. I didn't reveal her to the world until my early twenties. The controversial moment was responsible for my strained relationship with my dad. I was thirty-nine years old now. The man staring down the barrel of my gun was forty-one.

"Duvessa, look at me, please." Shakur's pleads fell on deaf ears. All I could hear was an eternal loop of his proposal. That's one thing he never did for me. He never got on one knee and proposed. Shakur swore that he was no good at love, using the excuse to treat women terribly. I always wanted him to man up and be there for me and Dove. He was absent for the first thirteen years of her life. Thus, the reason she carried my last name. I was dumb enough to let him back into her life and mine.

"D-Duvessa, baby, it's not how it seems" My slippery finger wrapped around the trigger. I could see him shaking and sweating bullets. What a beautiful sight. He was afraid now that his life was on the line. Where was he when my father was trying to force me to abort Dove? Inside that nasty trick Donna who peaked in high school. My net worth was knocking on a billion's door. She was somewhere being broke and irrelevant. Shakur wasn't thinking anything about her now that he was tied to two powerful women.

"You let me choose that girl to design my outfits for my upcoming tour" My heart sank to the bottom of the ocean. The more I thought about it, the more disgusted I was with myself and him. I wasn't innocent. I knew he had children with Lucia. He told me that they were just co-parenting, but his proposal video went viral. It was now the most viewed video ever on Instagram. "Why? If you knew you were planning to marry her and not me, why?" I cocked the hammer back threateningly.

"Duvessa!" Shakur shouted out loud, holding both hands up like they could stop a bullet. "Listen to me, it's all for show. Like Love & Hip-Hop. It's all fake. I'm trying to clean up my image. That's all it is, baby. Please believe me when I say that I'm still in love with you. I don't love her"

"Aye, did you know your door was-" Kain paused abruptly. Seeing the scene in the foyer rendered him speechless. I wanted someone to feel my pain, so I called him. He was Lucia's first baby daddy. The betrayal had to cut him deep, too. "What's going on here?" He questioned with curiosity instead of fear. "What did I just walk into?"