by Prenisha Aja
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1. Sawyer
2. Troy
3. Brynlee
4. Sawyer
5. Brynlee
6. Merci
7. Greyson Gibson
8. Brynlee
9. Kelia
10. Sawyer
11. Brynlee
12. Troy
13. Brynlee
14. Sawyer
15. Merci
16. Greyson
17. Brynlee
18. Sawyer
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After going back to the man that she was to marry, Brynlee finds herself having to face something she never thought she would ever go through.
Now totally sunken into a dark place, everyone wonders will she be able to pull herself out of it, especially with help from a man that was only trying to help her blossom in the first place.
Dive into this finale to see if Brynlee gets snatched up once and for all by bad boy Sawyer, or if she settles and accepts Troy’s infidelities and puts her happiness to the side just to be with someone she has history with.
This book is dedicated to everyone who is continuously supporting me through this amazing journey. I still can’t believe that I’m a published author.
Also, to my friends (Hydiea, Vee, and Kaa), thank you for the extra push. Every last one of y’all are bomb and it’s only up from here.
And last but not least, my mother, Regina, who is book crazy. She has supported every one of my releases and I am forever grateful. She goes above and beyond to push my books to others. Thank you, Mommy. I love you.
-Thank you, God, for it all. Without you I would be nothing.
Sawyer
A few moments before
My ass was running late to my brother’s damn game, because my flight had been delayed by thirty minutes. I hated when that shit happened and I knew if I missed it, I wouldn’t be able to hear the end of it from my mother.
Rushing inside of the school, I turned the corner and what I saw before me was something I didn’t expect, Brynlee.
I hadn’t seen her since she dipped out on me and left me without a warning. No goodbye, nothing. She had me call her phone just to find out I was blocked. I had to find the shit out from her friend Merci that she had went back to her ex. So just imagine how I felt. Even though I played it like I wasn’t bothered, I felt played on the inside because I thought we were getting somewhere.
I hadn’t imagined my first time seeing her again would be here inside of a college, arguing with a guy and a chick about God knows what. The shit kind of threw me for a loop.
Brynlee didn’t even know that I was standing behind them, witnessing the mayhem. I stood there and watched, not saying a word, ready to jump to her rescue if need be. I also wanted to see what the fuck she had going on, due to the fact that she was so judgmental when she met a nigga. Had me trying to makeup to her and shit for all the drama that I had her in.
“Yeah, I had his child, unlike you,” some chick expressed as she held a baby in her arm.
The chick wasn’t bad looking but she was nothing compared to Brynlee. The girl was on the darker side and she looked to be a goodie two shoes just like the guy that was trying to keep Brynlee and this chick apart.
“Let me go Troy,” Brynlee yelled at the guy, and I could tell by the redness of her face that she was devastated.
Damn, I thought. This shit was crazy because back in Texas, Brynlee had straight tried to play me. Like, she swore she didn’t have time for drama and all of that other shit she had told me. Yet, here she was acting a damn fool. I didn’t expect to see this side of her, but I knew she had it in her.
I knew her ass was crazy when my driver pulled up to my house with a damn knot upside his head from Brynlee clocking him in the head with her heels.
Running my hands down my face, I was going to stop Brynlee from making a fool out of herself but the moment I took a step, she completely lost it.
She began to claw at the nigga’s face that had been trying to hold her back, so that she wouldn’t kick ol’ girl’s ass, because I would bet all the money in my account that Brynlee would fuck her up.
Brynlee was so damn feisty, and she had tried to keep that buried and act classy but right now, I was seeing the chick that I always knew she was. That Houston, Texas was coming straight up out of her and she was about to tear this school down if I didn’t intervene.
“Ahh, you bitch,” the nigga Troy cried out as Brynlee continued to fuck him up.
What amazed me was that even though the dark skin chick was talking shit, she never stepped any closer to Brynlee, whom might I add was currently acting like a raging bull.
However, I didn’t blame the chick for playing it smart, especially since she had her kid. Instead, she held her baby tightly as she watched Brynlee attack Troy with wide eyes.
Brynlee was not to be fucked with at this moment, especially since she was mad. Lowkey, she was sticking it to his ass and was not letting up off of him.
As Brynlee continued to attack Troy, he finally got enough and pushed her off of him which caused her to come crashing down to the ground. That’s when I knew I could not stand back any longer and watch this shit continue to play out.
A few people had stopped and were watching on. It wasn’t that many, so I still had time to save her from getting the cops called on her and she end up in jail or with a ticket.
“Brynlee,” I shouted her name as I began to do a light jog over to where she sat on the floor.
She was in the process of trying to get up, when she stopped. �
��Sawyer.” She whipped her head around so fast as she looked at me.
I could tell that I was the last person she expected to see and hell, I wasn’t expecting to walk into the school that my brother attended to see her showing her natural black ass.
“Who is this nigga?” Homeboy turned and looked at me, but he could tell that I wasn’t that nigga to be fucked with.
“You good Bryn?” I asked, concerned, as I held my hand out.
She looked at me in confusion but still grabbed my hand and I pulled her up to her feet.
She looked so distraught as she stood in front of me. Her once radiant skin, was now pale and had no color to it. When she finally locked eyes with me, she opened her mouth to say something then closed it back up, not being able to find the words to say.
I mean, the way she left me was kind of fucked up, but it was cool. I wasn’t worried about that shit. My biggest concern was if she was ok. She looked like she didn’t know if she was coming or going, and I didn’t like seeing her like this.
“Talk to me.” I placed my hands gently on the sides of her face and closed the space in between us.
I didn’t give a fuck about nobody else right now. My only concern was that she was good. Granted, we hadn’t known each other long, yet still, I had a heart. I wasn’t no cold-hearted nigga, so seeing her standing here with tears and sadness fucked with me.
“The fuck, what is going on here? Brynlee.” This nigga was still talking, and I needed him to shut the fuck up.
Turning around, I mugged his ass real quick and he quickly got the fucking hint.
“Brynlee, baby girl, you know you don’t deserve this type of shit, right?” I expressed to her as I watched the tears rain slowly down her beautiful face.
I mean, I already knew from jump that she was dealing with some fucked up shit after she told me about it, but I doubt even she could prepare herself for some shit like this. I mean, from what I took from it, the nigga had a baby on her, and that was fucked on so many levels.
“You need to get your hands off of my girl.” The sound of his squeaky voice was starting to annoy me and the fact that he took one step too many towards me was going to guarantee him a well whooped ass.
“Say my nigga, I don’t know you like that for you to be stepping this close to me. My best advice to yo’ square ass is to step the fuck back before I knock yo’ ass the fuck back,” I calmly told him. There was no need to raise my voice because he was either gonna get the clue or catch these hands.
“This don’t have nothing to do with you,” his weak ass stated, making sure to lower his voice when talking to me.
As he stood in front of me, I eyed him up and down. His too tight slacks, the lame ass shoes on his feet, and the school-themed collared shirt that was tucked into his pants had me wondering what in the world did Brynlee see in him. She was nothing like him. He looked boring as fuck; as to her…she was feisty, witty, and had a little extra umph to her. So, what in the world was Steve Urkel going to do with her? Matter fact, what was she going to do with him and how in the world did she let him play her like that? That had to be a strong punch to the fucking chest, seeing that in my eyes she had settled for less.
“How you figure that? Was I asking you were you ok? Nah nigga, I was asking her. Why? Because it got something to do with me.” My lip curled up. I swear I was ready to tear into his ass but the light whimpers coming from Brynlee caused me to turn around.
She looked at me and shook her head, before she darted off. Now, I was no longer worried about his punk ass. Instead, I took off running after her.
She had run into the women’s bathroom and I didn’t care. I was still going to follow right behind her.
“Brynlee,” I hollered her name once I burst through the bathroom door.
I didn’t see her, but I heard her. Her sniffles echoed throughout the bathroom as the sounds of her throwing up caused me to rush and follow the sound. I pushed the tan stale door, trying to open it, but it was locked.
Knocking on the door, I leaned up against it and began to talk to her. “Brynlee open up and talk to me. Let me make sure you ok,” I spoke softly to her, but she ignored me as she continued to empty her insides out into the toilet.
“Are you ok?” I questioned.
“If you don’t answer me, I’m going to break this motherfucka down,” I threatened as I heard the toilet flush and the latch unlock.
Out walked Brynlee, as she used the back of her hand to wipe across her mouth. She sluggishly made her way over to the sink and cut the water on.
As she stood there washing her hands, she looked into the mirror at herself. She never even darted her eyes towards me or paid me any mind. She was too busy squinting her eyes at the person staring back at her.
“She’s still in there,” I voiced as I walked up behind her. I wrapped my arms around her trembling body as I placed a gentle kiss against her cheek.
The urge to be what she needed in such a terrible time consumed me. I wanted to soothe her aching heart and let her know that shit might seem fucked up right now, but it would get better. And no, I wasn’t telling her that shit just because I wanted her. It was the truth. To be real, Brynlee might not even fuck with me after this, yet and still, I would be cool with being her friend and being there for her.
What was so crazy to me was that ever since we fucked, I felt some deep ass connection with her. Then when she left my ass, a couple of weeks passed by and my ass was sick and shit. I felt like she had put some voodoo on me or something.
“I just don’t understand, why? Why did he do that to me? Is there something wrong with me?” She poked herself in the chest as she expressed every word until she could no longer hold in the tears.
Brynlee broke down and it was killing a nigga to see her like this. This shit was fucked up.
“Did you see her?” She pointed towards nothing in particular.
“He went and had a fucking baby on me, man. A fucking baby…” She paused and quickly wiped the tears away.
“Do you know how bad that hurt me? To see her holding his child. My fucking fiancé’s child, something that I couldn’t give him. Man, that shit hurt.” She shook her head from side to side in disbelief.
Brynlee then placed her hand over her mouth and muffled the gut-wrenching scream that she let out.
The only thing that I knew to do was to wrap my arms around her and hug her tightly.
“Ma, stop crying. Remember what I told you,” I whispered into her ear as she cried on my shoulder.
“But I just don’t understand,” she whimpered as she buried her face into my chest.
I rubbed her back up and down and let her finish getting it all out.
While we stood their embraced there was a knock on the door then in walked this lame ass nigga, with the dumbest look on his face.
“Am I missing something here?” He pointed at the two of us.
Brynlee pulled away from me as I began to mug him, ready to whoop his ass. See I was never a nigga that condoned cheating. When I was with a girl, I was with that girl but when I was single, of course I did single nigga shit. I fucked whatever bitch I felt like fucking; however, their situation was not the same at all.
“Troy, I need you to just tell me why. Why?!” Brynlee was sobbing as she looked at the man that I assumed she loved, or used to.
I had been able to calm her but now since this sucka had come in here, Brynlee was right back at square one. The tears were coming down like a waterfall and her hands and body shook as if she was standing in a freezer.
“It wasn’t like that…” He paused as he looked at her. “It just happened,” his dumb ass expressed as he ran his hands over the top of his head and looked down at the floor.
“Then what the fuck was it like then? It had to be something my nigga. You stuck yo’ dick in another bitch and got her pregnant. You cheated nigga. It’s that fucking simple,” I butted in, because he wanted to beat around the bush when he needed to just man up and tell her wha
t it really was. He was trying to spare her feelings when there was no need to. She was already gone off of the deep end and from the look in her eyes, there was no getting her back.
The sight of him standing there with a puzzled expression on his face, had my hand twitching. I wanted to fuck his ass up. He was on some foul shit.
I mean, had this been some he single, she single type of shit, then I would have chalked it up as that’s the way the game goes but right now, he didn’t want to own up to his truth.
“Man, Brynlee, do you want to stand here and have this goofy lie to you or what?” I asked, no longer being able to stand here and witness this shit.
“Let me just hear him out,” she looked at me with low eyes that were so red, that it looked like she had bust a vessel.
Shaking my head, I walked out of the bathroom. I looked down at my watch and saw that I still had time to watch my brother play. He was the reason why I was down here in the first place.
If Brynlee wanted to still be with him, then that was on her. I was about to go back to minding my business like I should have done in the first place.
As I headed to the gym, the girl that I assumed started all of this was still standing there like a lost puppy. She looked scared as she stood there antsy and continuously looking over her shoulder. If she knew better, she would get her ass out of dodge before Brynlee came out of that bathroom.
