Loving Khyree (That Zaddy Collection Book #1)

27

Brayton

I watched as his mother screamed her head off in the back of the car. This lady was straight fucked up. I had my phone on speaker, as my mom left hers phone on as well. Me, Petersen and Edward basically heard her confess to killing Khyree's grandparents. It took a while to understand what the fuck she meant about the air killing them. It wasn't until Edward had somebody at the precinct look up their death reports, did we understand what she meant.

Khyree came out with Nat and ma. I'm not gonna lie, I was scared as shit when she told me that he was gonna stay with her. All I knew was what she told me, he was a kid who was serving a sentence for murder. So of course I didn't trust him, I didn't want him to live with ma. She was my only parent, my dad dying when I was barely two. I dunno what the fuck could have happened...

It threw me off how big he was, when I first saw him. I shoulda went with ma's instinct, but I still felt some type of way. Why? Cuz I felt like I was sharing her and I didn't want to. Ma gave me all the attention a parent gave their child, even though she visited him. I wanted all of my mom's focus on me.

I saw how Nat looked at his picture when I brought it over to Kenia's house. Nat also was good at judging people and I knew that I was being a fucking asshole. Over time I saw Khyree for the real person he was. Not once had I seen him step outta character, he showed himself as the real person he was. Someone who didn't wanna fuck with nobody.

They came up to us and I watched the different emotions on his features.

"Khyree! Khyree! At least I didn't pull the trigger...." Carly Watts yelled behind the rolled up window, in a sing song manner. There was a quick look of resignation, knowing that he did pull the trigger. Then it was gone, replaced by that cold distant look that I met almost eight months ago.

"Honey....this is Khyree Watts. Khyree, this is my son Brayton." I had came to the house to talk to ma about giving Nat a guard and of all people that was at her house, it was the killer.

He was big as fuck, but size ain't mean shit to me when it came to Adrianna Simmons. He ain't say nothing, just nodding his head at me. I looked at ma and gave her the 'what the fuck' look. I ignored him and turned to ma. We walked to the kitchen. I pulled out the folder and passed it to her, while we sat down.

"These the ones I picked out for Nat..." I leaned closer to her, over the kitchen table. "You sure bout this ma?"

She wanted to put Khyree as another person for Natalie to pick through. My cousin already going through this bullshit with this stalker, ma expected me to put in a convicted killer to guard her?

I watched ma shut her eyes and take in a breath, as dude left the kitchen quietly. She opened them and stared at me softly.

"Why can't all of y'all trust me...? I thought you would have more than anybody...I carried you for nine months. God helped me bring you into this world, so I would have thought with that connection we have. As mother and son, that you of everyone would trust me..." She said quietly.

She always knew how to get me. It was always me and ma. She was my everything and no other woman came before my ma. I should trust her...but I was fucking scared. She didn't know the story behind what he did and she was freely trusting him.

"I do mama....it's just that....you don't even know his story..."

"But the eyes tell everything. Give him this chance to prove it...."

And I was wrong.

"Get this bitch outta here, before I fuck her crazy ass up." I heard my cousin say. Edward nodded at the cop, who moved to his car. She was always so happy go lucky and positive, that it was a complete change at how upset she was. An upset Nat wasn't a good one.