CHAPTER FOURThe next day
Malakai rode the escalator holding a Macy’s shopping bag as he stood side by side with Dakeemia inside of the Del Amo mall. Looking to her, he interlocked his fingers with hers and kissed her on the cheek affectionately. They locked eyes and exchanged smiles. Truthfully, she was the only other person in his life that he loved just as much as his grandmother. He couldn’t get over how lucky he was to have met her, but he thanked God every chance that he got that he did.
Ten years ago while at a bachelor’s party for a cousin’s friend where Dakeemia was one of the girls there stripping, Malakai witnessed her about to be r***d. He pistol whipped one of the b***h ass niggaz and blasted two of them in the ankle and kneecap, whisking the love of his life off and saving h
