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“What is it?”

She reached in and grabbed a burner phone. Kyenna tried to turn it on, but it wouldn’t come on.

“I need a charger. Where the fuck am I going to find a charger for this old ass phone?” she asked.

“Let me see it,” I told her, holding my hand out.

The phone was well over ten years old. I needed to know why it had Kyenna’s name on it. I was starting to think this was part of the shit Pops was saying could fuck up my family name.

“I’ll look for what I can find.”

“What do you think is on it?”

“Shit, I don’t kno’. Hopefully I can find a cord, and you’ll find out.”

CHAPTER 17

AVERIE

Today was exhausting, and I still had to make sure Kaiden made it to football practice. I was sitting at my desk charting one of my patients when someone walked up to the nurse’s station.

“Is there an Averie here?”

I walked from the glass and into the nurse’s station with the other nurse.

“Yeah,” I said.

“You got flowers.”

I grabbed them. “From who?”

Thinking about you.

~Q

I rolled my eyes.

“Who is Q?” one of my nurses asked.

“A problem.”

Everyone at the nurse’s station laughed. The nigga number was still folded up in that same purse I carried that night, and that was weeks ago. My mama had been on my ass about contacting him and getting my pussy stretched since it had been years. It sounded good but my focus was on work and my kids. A man was only an added headache. I placed the flowers in my office and closed the door since it was close to my lunchtime. I googled District 12’s phone number and dialed the number.

“District 12,” a woman answered the phone.

“Hey, is Q there?”

“Umm, hold on, let me see.”

“This Q,” he said into the phone.

“I thought I asked you to stop sending me gifts. It’s getting creepy. Now you’re sending things to my job.”

“You’re welcome.”

“Why are you doing this?”

“Because somebody needs to.”