Loose Lips

(11) - Protection

  Chapter Eleven

"It's good to know that you actually care about her education." Momma answered as she emerged from her room with the stack of textbooks, placing them on the table.

Kane sat back as he texted on one hand while he blindly bit into the fresh-baked biscuit Momma had minutes before his and Niko's arrival.

Niko snatched his phone, placing it next to him as he finally looked up at the disapproving look on her face.

"Sorry," He mumbled.

Michelle sighed as she shook her head, sitting at the end of the table studying her two sons who sat at the table eating breakfast in pure silence. It wasn't even normal for them to even be this silent while they were both together, they would usually laugh and joke towards each other giving Michelle a headache but a good one. Now, she saw as both of them seemed like they could barely look at each other.

She took out the chair sitting between them as they both had their heads low eating breakfast.

"This is the most I've seen y'all this quiet. What's going on?" She asked as she placed her hands on top of theirs.

Niko glanced over at Kane as he continued to eat as if there was nothing wrong but just from his stone face and nonchalant attitude, she knew that it had Kane written all over it.

She snatched Niko's ears into her fingers slowly twisted as he dropped his fork onto the plate.

"Momma, come on momma!" He hissed as she tried to hold on to her arm only to make her shoot a look at him making him retract.

Kane looked on as he saw Niko in pain as he tried to endure the pain which started on his ear, radiate down the side of his neck. He looked at Michelle who smiled at him then frowned at Niko instantly making him feel the guilt.

He took a deep breath, "I brought an unexpected guest to Hondo's house and he didn't really like that."

She let go of Niko's ear as he shot up from his seat, leaving into the kitchen. He knew his momma meant no harm. It was all in her parenting skills. If one was in trouble, she would make the other take the punishment while the troublemaker watched. Not only was it efficient in her home, it brought them two together more than anything else.

She smacked behind Kane's head as it jerked forward, making him shoot a look at her as if she was an enemy, making her raise her brow.

She was already indifferent to Zela staying there, but knowing what she knew personally she had no choice but to put the matters into her son's hands. Not until she was told to do so.

"You know bringing around a stranger in Hondo's home especially with a woman that needs to stay in the shadows and a seven-month-old is not really a smart idea." She ranted as he sighed.

Kane tried his hardest to put last night's argument behind him. He had no choice but to get a hotel room since taking Jayda home wasn't in his plans that night. He was trying to have Jayda wrapped around his finger just so she would up and go play for the enemy and as far as he knew it was going well.

"When I told Marshall that I would raise you like my own, I meant that," She kissed him on the temple standing up.

"Ain't he getting out this year?" Niko emerged from the kitchen as he held the ice cube against his ear.

Kane sighed as he stirred the oatmeal around in his bowl.

Even with monthly visitations to the federal prison, Kane still felt disconnected from his father. He was grateful that Michelle came around raising him even when his father was physically around. With his mother dead from a drug overdose at four years old, he spent most of his time with sleepovers with Niko and Hondo while his father had his head in the streets. If it wasn't for Michelle dragging him to the prison to visit him twice a month, he would've already erased him from his life the moment he landed himself in jail.