Dire Lust 2 [Book 2]

One

3 months ago...

August

I laughed at the way Ace smiled at me when I walked into the bar.

"Get that goofy ass grin off your face, nigga. You done got soft in two months?"

We shook up, but considering what I had been through, Ace gave me a bro hug.

"Man, I can't front. It's good to see you out and about."

It felt good being out and about. The last two months after Teyanna's murder had been rough, to say the least.

For weeks after the funeral, I stayed in the house, trying hard to stay sane. I didn't eat much. I could never sleep.

I even got fired because I was taking too much time off. Ace ordered me a shot of Patron .

At first, I was scared to even drink that shit, thinking that my drunk mind would bring my grieving truth to the surface. Yeah, I was outside, but it was all a front.

I was pretending to have it all together for the sake of trying to press on. Life was forcing me to keep living.

"I was surprised you called me, man." I knew Ace would be surprised. But like I said, life was forcing me to keep living.

"I know."

"What's up?"

"That offer still on the table to take over them blocks?" His eyes brightened with happiness.

"You ready to work?" I was more than ready. I couldn't stomach living in that apartment after Teyanna was killed.

Because she was just as excited about the house on the west bank as I was, I went ahead and moved in it, even though I was laid off. My stash had dwindled down to barely anything.

I was still fucked up in the head about Teyanna, and I even still had a bad taste in my mouth about being in the game, since its what led to her getting killed.

But I was back at square one. I was back struggling to pay bills. And even though I didn't have Teyanna to take care of anymore, in addition to my mother, I still had a little Teyanna to take care of.

Zahir had survived the shooting .

Though born at fourteen ounces and only ten inches long, after two months of being in the Neonatal Unit at the Hospital , my little boy was being released from the hospital the next day.

"I'm more than ready," I told Ace.

"You got the bread?" I didn't, but I knew who did. Just as I nodded my head, Kay came into the bar. She looked good in a fitted leather blazer, knee length leather boots and straight leg jeans.

Her hair bounced like she had just gotten it done. It was much longer and looked like that good virgin shit that women spend hundreds on. Even her body looked different.

She was a lot more toned, and she had a lot more hips and ass than I remembered.

I knew she'd gotten some money from selling her crib. I figured some of it had been injected in her ass. Just like Ace, I had to laugh at the way she smiled at me.

"Heeeey," she sung to me as she hugged me. "It's good to see you."

I hadn't seen her since Teyanna was killed. We'd stayed in contact because she refused to let me slip past the point of no return.

Day in and day out, she was talking to me, consoling me and helping me cope with the pain. Even though I was grieving , I couldn't deny how she had put her feelings aside just to be there for me while I grieved for my woman.