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The sun hit Ahvi’s back, waking her up. She looked over at Kamari who was tucked under Lunar. They were both knocked out. She kissed her teeth because Kamari refused to sleep under her like that.

She couldn’t lie though, the view was beautiful. So much so, it made her think about Dro and the lack of his presence in Kamari’s life. Then her own shame crept in. How was she judging Dro when she’d yet to start piecing her life back together her damn self. For the last week and a half, she’d been under Lunar, in his home, fucking on him and allowing him to take care of her. That wasn’t making any progress on her goals and she knew Ish would’ve been pissed at her circumstances. It was time to stop dreaming about the moon and get to work. She needed to really put her focus into finding a job or the judge was going to give her some real time—something longer than thirty days and for her, that wasn’t an option. Kamari needed her.

Slowly, she eased out of bed in search of the things she was released from prison with. So much was happening when she first arrived at Lunar’s house that her mission got lost in the sauce. With all the sexual tension building between them, she really got caught up. Now, it was a new day—a new week and time to get her shit together like she was supposed to do in the first place.

The house felt different with just them there. Every now and then Pimp would pop up but that was it. It was like, Ahvi, Lunar, and Kamari got to enjoy each other with no outside influence.

Tipping through the house, she eased her way down the steps to the second floor since the Lunar had his own floor and rightfully so. The house was so well crafted it didn’t even creak or make noise when she walked on its floors. She pushed the door open to the guest room, she had claimed for her and Kamari. Ahvi checked the drawer where her jail bag was stuffed for safekeeping. Once she had her phone in her hands, she walked down to the kitchen in search of a charger. She had left all this stuff sitting there for weeks or days in an effort to forget all she’d been through. It had been so long since her phone was on that she wouldn’t be surprised if it acted up on her.

“What you doing?” Pimp walked in from smoking in the backyard, making her jump.

She held her chest. “Looking for a charger but why you moving around like a ninja?”

He chuckled, “Why you look like you sneaking?” He looked at her skeptically.

“I’m not,” Ahvi rolled her eyes. “I’m looking for a charger to turn my phone on.”

“Oh, shit, just say that.” Pimp pulled a drawer in the kitchen open, handing her what she needed. “Here.”

“Thank you. What time you get in?” Ahvi asked, jumping on the countertop waiting for her phone to power on. She was comfortable like she owned the place, Lunar had that effect on her. He made her feel like everything that was his, was hers.

“Lunar really rubbing off on you,” he smirked.

“I’m just asking cause I ain’t hear you come in.”

“Probably was up there busy doing shit with Lunar,” he smirked.

She covered her face, blushing. “No, I wasn’t.”

Just then her phone screen flashed on and it started beeping and buzzing like crazy. She thought the phone had been cut off but should’ve known better when Butta’s phone was still on. They were on the same plan. Sheena ain’t have no extra money to pay the phone bill, so Ahvi put Butta on her plan.

“You thought it was off?” Pimp asked, taking a seat to get comfortable. “He paid that shit when Butta explained the situation to you.”

“What don’t he do?” she whispered, going through her phone. She had a bunch of missed calls from Dro but they stopped a few weeks ago. Going through her social media, she saw people tagging her, asking where she was going to be selling food. The city seemed to be fucking with her and that was all she needed to know. It was time to get back on her shit. She couldn’t let that robbery stop her flow.

The natural hustler’s instinct was in her, so no matter how life kicked her down, she would always get back to the hustle. If Ish hadn’t taught her nothing else, he taught her to never stay down too long. Life wouldn’t allow it. Not the one she lived, anyway.

“He’s sweet on you,” Pimp’s voice cut in.

She looked up. “I mean, he’s a sweetheart…I’m sure he’s sweet to all the girls.”

“Nah, Ahvi…he ain’t.”

“What about Apple?” Ahvi had been itching to dive deeper into that relationship, maybe Pimp was her way in. “I know they had something, and I know he was probably out here looking after her, spoiling her with lavish shit too.”

Pimp let her talk. Then he let her watch him, waiting for a response. “Don’t let your assumptions make an ass out of you, sis. Did he like her? Yea. But not like he’s simpin’ on you. You have no idea what my bro wants to give you.”

“But why me?” She was desperate to know what was so special about her.

Her shrugged. “That’s some shit you gotta ask him. I will say this though…don’t let that sweet shit fool you. You have yet to see Lunar in rare form. It takes time to get to know him or people. Keep that in mind, sis.”

With that, he got up to leave. He had shit to do and artists to vet. Over the last year, he’d stepped into the A&R position, scouting new artists, songwriters, and producers. It was a lot, but kept his mind busy after his heart break from Bobby Jr. Everyone had warned Pimp but he didn’t listen and now, he had to carry that. It was a lesson he finally learned—no more dating niggas in the closet.

“Tell Lunar, I’ll be out for a day or two. Make sure that nigga get in the studio too.”

“I can’t make him do anything,” Ahvi laughed, still scrolling through her phone.

Pimp’s smile leaned as he looked at her like she was kidding. “Ahvi, you can make him do a lot.”

* * *

The camera angled between a small crack of the door. Someone was singing but the images were blurry until the phone camera focused. Luna sat in the middle of the room with her legs crossed, singing along to the movie that played on her school-issued laptop while Solar and Qamar ogled her like she was the best thing walking the earth.

“Late at night, when all the world is sleeping,” Luna sang along with Selena. Her voice and tone sounded effortless, mirroring how unbothered she was.

A loud thunk, followed by what looked like the phone falling, interrupted her.

“Lunar!” Luna fussed. “Stop doing that creep shit!”

“Man, you my sister, I can record you,” Lunar fired back before Qamar’s face popped into the screen. He smiled with those brown eyes then ended it.

Lunar slid the old phone behind him, making sure to not get any water on it.

He kicked his feet, making waves in the water while the moon cast a beautiful glow over the backyard. He was lounging by the pool. For the first time in a long time, he was happy—or closer to it than he ever was before. The jury was still out on the logistics of it all.

“A moon, watching the moon,” Ahvi’s voice pulled at his heart as she walked up on him.

“Watch out, Ahvi,” he laughed, still gently kicking his feet in the water. “Did he give you a hard time?” Lunar asked about Kamari. They were still working on getting him to sleep without having them in the bed with him. Ahvi was dead set on getting Kamari his own bed since he would be walking soon and she wanted to create some self-soothing techniques for him.

“You see my lip?” Ahvi pointed, crouching down to sit beside him.

Lunar studied her lip noticing a small red spot. “I don’t believe my boy did no shit like that.” His smirk wasn’t as cocky and his bravado didn’t seem to shine like it used too.

“You are so fake because you know he likes to throw that big ass head around,” she snickered, still searching the side of his face out the corner of her eye.

Lunar laughed, but the curl of his smile didn’t last long. He was in his head. So deep in there, he couldn’t really appreciate her presence like he usually did.

“Hey, what’s up? What’s wrong?” Ahvi finally asked, her eyes staring at him.

Lunar pinched his lips together, a ghost of a smile lingering. “Why you got all them clothes on at the pool, Ahvi?”

Ahvi smashed her thighs together, making them sound off through the quiet night. “Lunar,” she whined, hating how easily he got her riled up. Everything he did came with rewards like the sound of his voice.

She’d always understood why the fans went wild for him. One growl on a track and her panties were falling to the ground. There was just something so lusty about his deep southern drawl and how his words seemed so crisp and clear yet so bunched and foggy when he rapped.

“Ahvi,” he huffed back, his eyes low. “You smoke?” he asked, like the question just popped up in his head.

“Sometimes, but I’m more of an edible girl. I don’t wanna be around Kamari smelling like weed.”

“So you want me to stop?”

“Did I say that?” Ahvi tilted her head. “You usually wash your hands and sometimes change your clothes before coming around him, so you’re good in my book.”

Lunar nodded in a slow, staggered way before he gave her that look. The one that said he wasn’t going to repeat himself…the one that said if he did, she’d regret it.

Ahvi stood up to slide the pink maxi dress down her body. The humidity coated her skin like a blanket.

“Do you ever dress up? Lunar assessed with his neck craned to look up at her.

“I’ve been in this house since I got out…why would I put on clothes?”

“Do you want to get out the house? I mean, we can go anywhere you want to go.”

“I want to not be standing here half naked in just my panties,” Ahvi bucked her eyes.

Lunar turned his head, focusing on his feet in the water. “Put your clothes back on, Ahvi.”

“Wait! No! That’s not what I mean,” she tried to clean it up, desperate to feel him in her.

“Then don’t put them back on, Ahvi…” Lunar sighed. “You know you can do whatever you want to do.” Slowly, he dragged his eyes back to her. “For example, you don’t have to wait for me to tell you to get some of this dick. You can come take what’s yours anytime you want.”

She nodded.

“And if you want to get out the house, get out the house. Or if you want me to take you somewhere, open your mouth and tell me you want to go somewhere. If you want money, you ask for money, Ahvi… this shit so simple that I don’t understand why the fuck you walking around like it ain’t.”

“Simple for you – all this,” she opened her arms dramatically taking in the house, the pool it was a far cry from her little house. “You’re used to it. This ain’t SIMPLE! Ain’t shit simple about this to people like me. No one just gives me shit…so it takes some getting used to when you’re used to doing it all by yourself.”

He pushed up from the side of the pool with a determined look in his eyes. He didn’t say a word, didn’t acknowledge how pretty she was…standing there in her panties. She did notice him licking his lips, but Lunar was on a mission…to where, she didn’t know.

Ahvi just stood there with her hands by her side, her thumb tapping against her thigh while she had a full-blown conversation in her head about how stupid she must have looked.

Before she could talk herself into getting the hell on, Lunar reappeared with a gummy treat in his hand. “Here…”

“What is it?” Ahvi asked, her eyes locked on his.

“an edible.”

“Where you get this from?”

Lunar’s scent brushed past her nose as he reclaimed his spot by the pool. “Noodle likes to get high but can’t hit blunts without Bu, so she has a small stash of edibles everywhere she goes,” he explained.

Ahvi popped the small gummy in her mouth, chewing it slowly. It was good, with only a faint hint of THC aftertaste. “So all of y’all like to boss your girls around?”

“You my girl?” Lunar twisted his head to ask as she sat next to him, her breasts bouncing with each little movement.

“No, but you know what I mean,” she laughed.

“Nah, I don’t know what you mean,” Lunar kicked her foot under the water. “So tell me… explain to me how you ain’t my girl.”

“First off, how you know I want a man? I gotta get my shit together and honestly, you been distracting me.” Ahvi swiped the tips of her finger over his brows before dipping one into that dimple that seemed to never disappear.

Lunar scoffed. “Me?” He pointed at his chest like he couldn’t believe she was putting that on him. “I’m distracting you? My Ahvi, you so out of touch with what this shit is…it’s almost sad.”

What the fuck?!” Her voice rose and her head cocked, daring him to say it again. “Watch how you talking to me.”

“Then watch how you handling me!” Lunar fired back, his brows flickering a little.

Ahvi looked him upside his head, looking for what she’d missed when she first came out. Well, not missed because she noticed something in his eyes when he did finally look at her, but she chose to ignore it ‘cause she was busy with thoughts of taking deep dick.

Her hand rested on top of his. “What’s wrong, Lunar?” The fierceness was gone from her voice.

His shoulders sagged, and he lowered his voice. “I’m just—” he licked his lips, “I’m just in my feelings…wondering what made me one of God’s strongest soldiers or what I did wrong in my past life to not deserve my dad. How did they all have him, if even for a short amount of time, except me?” his voice cracked. “I’d give anything just for him to drop a lesson…a memory in my lap, that’ll stick with me forever.”

“Anything?” Ahvi asked, pushing herself closer to him, to wipe his face.

With the sexiest, deepest eyes she’d ever seen, Lunar looked up at her. “Any- fuckin’ thing.”

Sucking in a deep breath, she pulled his face into her chest as her own tears rolled down her cheeks.

“I wanted to give my life just to see my daddy too, man but then you know what that nigga did?”

He couldn’t see her, but felt her when she shook her head.

“Nigga gave me Kamari.”

She cried harder. Squeezed him more.

“And now I can’t leave my lil’ man out here alone with you or on his own…or this world won’t do him right…see a little black boy and call him bad when he ain’t doing nothing but exploring his new world. Lunar think he slick,” he scoffed, still crying in her chest. “I wonder how many times they called Lunar bad? Wonder how much of those words manifested? But what they expect - when his mama left dropped some kids in his lap making him be the man of the house before his balls even dropped.

Ahvi didn’t know what to do besides cry and give him space to express himself. Her heart thumped from the way he valued Kamari being brought into his life. If there was ever a doubt about Lunar and Kamari’s relationship, it was put to bed with just a few simple words.

Silence blew around them, sinking into them, meshing them together without their consent. Lunar scribbled his fingers against her back, flicked his tongue against her nipple like he wasn’t just bleeding his soul out on the concrete for her to see.

“You said I can have whatever I want, all I gotta do is ask?” Ahvi moaned, loving the way her nipples pebbled in his mouth.

“Yea.”

“Eat my pussy,” she giggled. Ahvi didn’t hesitate, didn’t second guess herself. If he said all she had to do was ask, she wanted to test the theory.

Lunar pushed his fully clothed body into the water, making it splash up. Pushing Ahvi’s legs open, he kept his eyes on her, showing her all she had to do was ask. He tugged on her panties, ripping them down the middle. Then, his rough finger rubbed up her thighs leaving a trail of bumps in its absence.

Spreading her pussy lips apart gently, Lunar just stared, licking his lips before looking up at Ahvi whose eyes were glued to him. With his tongue flat, he took a long. slow lick of her clit. It ended with his eyes back on her.

Ahvi’s body trembled with pleasure.

Tired of playing with her, Lunar twirled his tongue around her swelling clit making her back hit the ground. “Yes,” she coaxed, winding her hips into his mouth.

Lunar dipped his tongue close to her ass lubing it just enough for him to boldly push a finger into that forbidden hole.

Ahvi’s eyes popped open in shock at the same time her high started to kick in, sending mixed signals throughout her body. She tried to pull away but he held her firmly in place. “Lunar,” she crooned. “What…are…you…doing?”

“You said I could break you, Ahvi.” She could hear the smile in his voice while he pushed and pulled his index finger in and out of her ass. To ease her tense body, he started back licking and sucking on her pussy. “Relax for me,” he mumbled through her pussy.

Ahvi nodded, exhaling and trying her best to relax though it felt weird. It was all new to her…the feeling…the pleasure…the breaking.

“You’re doing so good, Ahvi.”

Frantically, she nodded as the weird feeling began to turn her on more.

Lunar continued his tongue lashing while maintaining constant pressure on her anus. Ahvi was confused by what she was feeling, trying to figure out whether or not she should like it.

“Fuck, you taste so good.”

Ahvi’s hands swam in his waves as she fucked his face and rode his finger. “Fuck yes,” she hummed. “Fuck me, baby.”

Lunar pulled back for a moment, watching her pussy pulse. He smiled, knowing she was almost broken—not all the way there, but she was starting to enjoy it…so she was well on her way.

Ahvi looked down at him like he had two heads. “What you doing?”

He laughed. “Chill, I got you.” Lunar got out the water, his clothes dripping wet. With the quickness - he was naked, his clothes in a pile beside her torn panties and dress.

Lunar got down with her, placing her legs on either side of him. He leaned in to tongue her down. It was slow and sensual. He sucked her tongue in his mouth while he entered her and bottomed out in her pussy.

“Oh, shit, Lunar!” Ahvi tightened her arms around his neck. “Right there,” she whimpered affectionately, “yea, just like that,” she praised.

Lunar fucked her deep and hard, knowing she was going to have a few scrapes on her back from the concrete deck but they were both enjoying it too much to stop. “Open them legs up…you feel that, Ahvi?”

“Ohhhh! Ah yea, Lunar…I feel…all of you.”

“I know,” he whispered in her ear. “The way you take this dick…baby you’re the best. Say I’m the best , Lunar.”

“I’m the best, Lunar!” Ahvi screamed, knowing the neighbors would know Lunar’s name when it was all said and done. Her body shook violently from pleasure.

He pushed her hair back, cooing softly. “You’re so pretty, Ahvi and you’re mine.” His hands grew rough enough to make her eyes pop open. Staring into her eyes, he said, “Say it.”

Mouth dry, Ahvi coated her lips, swallowing what little saliva she had to soothe her throat. “I’m yours,” she declared.

“Get on all fours.” His eyes on her felt hot—like standing in the sun.

She did what she was told.

He gazed at the cuts on her back as she switched positions. Lunar left her for a moment, to grab one of the cushions from the lounge chairs by the pool. He tapped her thigh to put it under her, to give her some relief from the concrete. She twisted her head towards him to thank him and their eyes met, instantly understanding each other.

After he pulled the lube from his pocket, he squirted it on his dick. Ahvi wondered where that came from, but realized he must have got it when he brought her an edible.

Suddenly she felt his dick pushed into her ass, very slowly and every star in the sky must’ve been hiding behind her lids.

“AHHH –“

He rubbed gentle circles over her ass. “It’s okay…it might hurt a little but I promise I’ll make it feel good.”

Ahvi chewed on her lip and whimpered.

Lunar leaned forward to kiss her shoulder. “You’re doing so good. Don’t think about the pain, Ahvi… Shit,” he moaned when it felt like her body loosened up. “That’s it…just relax.”

His movements were as calm as the night and his voice was equally as soothing, making her forget the pain. “You okay?”

She nodded before huffing out a yes.

“Gotdamn,” Lunar was flying too. The way he growled sent the arch into her back deeper.

To hear it again, she wanted to give him all the pleasure. Her desire to please him outweighed the pain she felt. Maybe if she could just push past the pain, she could feel as good as he felt.

“Fuckin’ you under the stars gotta be a world wonder…if it ain’t, it needs to be. You hear that Ahvi? Your pussy is a wonder of the world but I’ll kill a nigga that thinks he gets to witness it.” Sex with Lunar always teleported her into a world where she felt like his first.

Ahvi trailed her hand to her soaking pussy, still pulsing from her earlier release. She creamed again, still reacting to all the different urges and reactions running through her. He moaned again. “It’s you…you bring this out of me. How?”

“’Cause I’m breaking you, Ahvi.”

“And why does my name sound so fuckin’ sexy every time you say it?” Ahvi was on that free planet too—her words came easy and without pause. “I wanna love you, Lunar!”

“Then love me,” Lunar pulled out, nutting all over her ass. “It’s the least that nigga can do…send somebody to love me.”