Deceitful | Book 3

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MARTRAY
As I looked down at Tereny, staring at her luscious frame, I couldn't help but want to respect her the best way that I could. I couldn't fuck her man. Not under this condition. And believe when I say I really wanted to. But I'm not the same man that I was before I was sent away. I've changed. And while I'm still fucking around, it's only because I am a free man. And I can do what the fuck I want. But I refuse to do this. I had to respect Tereny.

    "Look, I know the shit hurt that you just finding out like this, but I don't want to disrespect you in any way or have you feeling like your feelings are fuckable because they ain't." I tell her as I swallow my pride and sit down beside her. I looked over at my Sleeping Beauty and then at Tereny.

    When she looked at me, all she could do was break down into deep sobs. I pulled her into me and held her tight. I got a big ass mouth and I really didn't mean to be letting secrets out and shit. How was I supposed to know this nigga was gonna only tell her one part of the truth? He's a real fuck boy and should take the big L for this one. You tell someone the truth, you tell them the whole truth. Not half. I learned that shit the hard way with Cheri.

    "Ay," I say once her cries got louder. "Chill out. It ain't that deep." I say to her as I pull her away from me.

    "I can't believe that he cheated on me and probably still is. I trusted him with Gabby. I trusted Gabby. How could the both of them do this to me?" She whined. I shook my head and held onto her some more to comfort her the best way that I could.

    "Just relax and don't think about it too much." I tell her as I peel her off of me. She looked into my eyes and sniffled. I leaned over and grabbed about a dozen Kleenexes from the box resting on the nightstand and handed them to her so that she could dry her eyes. "And I mean, obviously he didn't want to tell you right now. So don't go back to him going off all ratchet and shit. Niggas hate that." I inform her.

    "What? Why?" She asked me as she dried her eyes. I chuckled.

    "You might not want him to know that you know. Then he really gonna suspect some shit. We ain't even supposed to be doing this shit right now. Last thing I need is the lil nigga coming for me and me getting charged and shit. I'm not supposed to be around him due to the shit." I tell her. She sniffled again and continued dabbing her eyes. I take a real deep breath and shake my head.

    "How am I gonna play it off like I don't know when it hurts me so bad?" She asked me as if I had all the answers. I sucked my teeth.

    "You just brought our daughter here to see me against his will and then you up and kissed me right?" I asked her. She nodded yes. "Now you got a secret. He ain't the only one that don fucked up." She sighed and stood up from the bed.

    "Us kissing should have never happened at all." She said as she walked over towards the sink near the bathroom. I watched her.

    "What you expect? You were hurt. It happens. And plus, you was reacting off old feelings." I understood what she meant and why she did what she did. Vulnerability was a bitch. And normally, I'm all in on taking advantage, but I just couldn't take advantage of her. It would be too easy and just not exciting. "I just wanna be apart of her life. That's it." I said, referring to my daughter.

    "It's understandable." Tereny said as she walked back over to me, standing there. "But what's in that box?" She asked me, pointing to the box that I tried my hardest to wrap up for Britney.

    I went all out and bought damn near four boxes of Bratz dolls with a 100 item clothing kit for them. Wasn't sure if she liked Bratz, but Cashmere loved the hell out of them ugly ass dolls. Them shits looked like gremlins.