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“For what?”

“Why?” Kyenna leaned back in her chair.

“Ain’t you got a meetin’ Wednesday?”

“What meeting?” She challenged.

“I thought you said you had a meeting with a new vendor,” I lied.

“I think I know my own schedule better than you. Lloyd and I have a lunch date.”

Jaharee shot back up from her phone. Lloyd looked between the two of us but was smart enough not to say anything.

“Lunch, huh?”

“Is there anything else you need?” she asked, staring at me.

She had me so heated I wanted to pull my gun and spray the whole muthfuckin’ office, but my sister was in here, and she was staring me right in the damn face.

“You good?” Kyenna looked up at Lloyd.

“I’m great.”

“Good, I’ll be waiting on your email tomorrow.”

Lloyd gathered his shit and left. Kyenna got up and walked into her private bathroom and closed the door. That left Jaharee and me in the office. She couldn’t wait for Kyenna to close that door so she could bust out laughing.

“What the fuck is so funny?”

“You, nigga. Every time that man comes around Kyenna, you start glitching out. Nigga, are you cool?”

“I’m straight.”

“Meek, you’ve never acted this way. You don’t have access to that girl’s schedule but you stood your ass here and invented a make believe meeting trying to stop her from having lunch with Lloyd.”

“I don’t trust a nigga up under her,” I said, giving the same answer I had been giving everybody.

“Why?”

“’Cause Rah trusted him, and now he’s always in her face. That shit ain’t weird to you?”

“I can say the same about you. You’re always in her face now, too. Kyenna is grown and can make her own decisions. She can pick and choose who she wants around her. Grow the fuck up and learn the difference between protecting and possession.”

Kyenna came out of the bathroom drying her hands.

“I’m going downstairs to get me a damn drink. Y’all can finish whatever weird sibling-in-law argument y’all got going on.” Jaharee grabbed her purse and walked out.

I closed and locked the door behind her and looked dead at Kyenna.

“Did you tell my sister somethin’ that I should kno’ ‘bout?”

“No, I didn’t tell her anything because I’m not trying to blow up this family. But if you keep acting like a jealous boyfriend every time that man is around, I’m not going to tell her shit. She has eyes. And I told you that if you played the back-and-forth game between Nikki and me, I was going to embarrass you,” she said.

“That’s what this is ‘bout?”

“No, it’s not actually. You brought your ass into my office with the bullshit. I was letting you spend your time with your girlfriend.”

“She has never been my girlfriend.”