In Love With a Thug✔️

Chapter 27

"Malique, you better start talking." I say on the verge of tears.

He sighs and sits on the couch and puts his face in his hands.

"I fucked up." he says still not looking at me.

"Yea, I see that." I pause. "Was it Eliana?" I ask him and he finally looks at me. Guilt all in his eyes. He just nodded his head yes.

I take a deep breath and bite down on my bottom lip not trying to cry in front of him. I just walked away from him. Talking about am I cheating on him when whole time he was with another bitch.

"Mamas." I hear him call for me and I keep walking. I walk into the room and slam the door shut and break down. How could he do this to me? Was it something I did?

"Babe, open the door." Malique says outside the door trying to get in.

"Stay away from me Malique." I say between sobs.

"Mamas you have no idea how sorry I am." he pleads to me and I laugh.

"If you were sorry you wouldn't have done the shit." I yell through the door and next thing you know the door opens. How did he get it open? Awe yea, he's a thug. I roll my eyes internally.

"Mamas get up." Malique walks over to me and tries to pull me up off the floor.

"Don't fucking touch me. Don't ever touch me again." I scream at him and he pulls me into a hug holding me tight. I tried to fight him and get out of his hold but he wouldn't let me go.

Eventually I stop fighting him and break down once again, into his arms. He held me tightly, never letting me go, whispering how sorry he was in my ear.

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I awake in bed alone. My eyes are sore. I don't even remember falling asleep. Food fills my nostrils and I get up and go to the bathroom. I look in the mirror and shake my head. My eyes were swollen from all the crying and I felt awful.

I strip out of my clothes and shower.

When I got out the shower I threw on some biker shorts and a graphic tee, put shoes on and grabbed my phone.

Me: Where you at? Can we talk?

I walked towards the front of the house and saw Malique feeding Jr. I smile internally because rarely do I see Malique interact with his son. He looks comfortable though. I guess he sensed me staring because he looked up at me and smiled. My phone dinged and I looked down.

Jonah: Shit I'm at the crib, come through.

"You're up." he frowns when he sees I have shoes on. Walking fully into the kitchen I grab a plate and put the food that Malique cooked. "So you're not going to talk to me?" he says and I roll my eyes. Now he knows I ain't finna talk to him. "And where you going?"

"Okay then whatever, I'm not doing this with you." he says getting up from the chair and grabbing Jr.

"What do you mean you ain't doing this? I'm not the one who cheated." I state and he mugs me and keeps walking.

Once I finish eating I throw my dish in the sink and grab my keys and wallet.

"Mamas, I'm out." Malique says to me coming from the back and he frowns. "Where the fuck you going?"

"Out." I say dryly.

"Mamas, I gotta go."

"Naw I think you should stay here with your son while I go out."

"Whatever mama's I gotta go." He grabbed his keys and opened the door and I walked out of it. "Where the fuck you going."

"I told you, out."

"So you're just gonna leave our son in the house alone?"

"Yeah, you better get back in there huh." I didn't care about shit he was talking about. I was leaving.

"Imani, real shit I'm leaving, get yo ass back inside."

"Shit, I guess he'll be in the house alone won't he." I opened my car door and started the car up.

"Imani!" I ignored him as I shut the car door and pulled off. God I hope he didn't leave my child in the house alone.

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"He cheated on me. I can't believe he fucking cheated on me." I paced in Jonah's room as he sat at his desk listening to me not saying too much of nothing. "He been like this since even before the baby was born. Has he been cheating on me the whole time I was pregnant?" I questioned, more to myself than anything. "Was it something I did?"

"Couldn't have been." Jonah said, causing me to look at him for the first time I had been here. Jasmine and his aunt were gone. He said that they'd probably be gone all night. "Some niggas just do shit." He shrugged, making me shake my head.

"That's the dumbest thing I ever heard." I plopped down on his bed. "So you cheat?" I ask him.

"I ain't been in a relationship to cheat. If you asking about you, no." He stated and I rolled my eyes.

"Why be in a relationship if you're gonna cheat."

"You make it sound like he's a serial cheater, has he cheated on you before?" He asked me and I shook my head no.

"Naw, he just moves a little differently. Secretly. One thing I can say is, he ain't never lied. If he was cheating on me in the past, I would've known, and he would've been honest. Like he was this time." And that I knew.

"So what do you do now?"

"I'm gonna go back to him, but not before I give him a taste of his medicine." I got up from the bed and sauntered over to Jonah. "Wanna play the game with me?" I ask with my face pretty much touching his.

"Shit why not."

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I cheated on Malique with my first love, & I didn't regret it.

Not one bit.