Prince of the ghetto MxM (Staten Krown)

13

"We caught him trying to sneak out of the back of the house..."

We had gotten back to Jalen's house. It was Zula who was talking. Brolic had agreed to bring us back to the house if we agreed not to hurt Jalen. I said I just wanted to talk to him. I just needed closure. I just needed to understand why he did what he did.

"Bring him in..."

"Don't hurt him," Brolic replied.

It had occurred to me to hurt him but right now I was defeated. I had lost Marcus. I had fucking lost Marcus and somehow I had mixed up these fake feelings I had for Jalen with the real ones that I had for Marcus. I hated that I felt this way. I hated the fact that Marcus was gone out of my life now. He had run away...for the first time. We couldn't track him down.

"I won't."

In the next few minutes Jalen was dragged into the house. I could tell Zula wanted to hit him or something but I just looked at Jalen. Jalen wasn't giving me eye contact. Jalen was looking away. He was acting almost like he didn't see me.

"Jalen just apologize—just—" Brolic started saying.

Brolic's face was bruised. A part of me felt really bad about it but it did occur to me that Brolic was still an asshole even if he wasn't the one who sold me out.

"I'd like to speak to him in private," I stated.

"Sir, are you certain."

I nodded.

I wasn't going to ask again. Everyone cleared the room and went outside including Brolic. It was just Jalen and I. Jalen still didn't look me in my eyes. He still wasn't looking at me back. He was ashamed. It was clear that he was ashamed.

I just shook my head.

"I hoped...I hoped that you would tell me that Brolic was lying," I explained, "I hoped that you would have told me that it was all some fucked up joke and that Brolic was actually the one who did it. I was beyond happy to believe that really. My guys would have roughed him up a little bit. It would have been the end of that."

"He's not lying."

That was all Jalen said at that moment.

It was short. It was to the point.

"I could have died," I said, "You know they were going to kill me right."

"I didn't know that."

"You HAD to have known that Jalen. They killed my mother."

Jalen shook his head at that moment.

"They didn't want you dead...at least I didn't know they wanted you dead. You have to believe me..."

"How the fuck do you know what they wanted?"

"Remember I told you that I found you...that wasn't exactly the case..."

I looked over at Jalen. Jalen was finally making eye contact with me. He dropped that bomb and I was left stunned. My mouth was basically open.

"It was a plan..." I stated filling in the blanks, "Mr. Smith's plan."

He shook his head.

"No your sister. When Mr. Smith killed your mother your sister found out from her people that you survived. She wanted to protect you. She told me that people were after you and that I should hide you."

My sister.

Her adviser tried to kill me and she tried to save me? I was confused.

"So why did you sell me out to Mr. Smith?" I asked confused.