Free Loyalty Over Royalty by T'Anne Marie

that’s all I can have!” she spat, rolling her eyes to the top of her head.
    “I’m sorry, Ms. Kyra, I don’t make the rules. I would love to feed you if I could child, but if you wanna have a safe delivery, you can’t eat!” she hissed.
    “Don’t mind her ma’am, she’s jus a pregnant spoiled ass brat,” Notorious apologized, while giving Kyra the “you better cut that shit out” face. Kyra then laid back in the hospital bed with her lip poked out and arms folded, it was her signature move when she couldn’t have her way.
    “Okay, I will be right back with your water and your doctor to give you your epidural,” the nurse said before heading out the door.
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    Kyra was 10 cm dilated, and it was show time. When the nurses dropped the bed and turned all the lights on, she knew it was real. “Okay Ms. Kyra, when you feel a contraction, I want you to start pushing!” her doctor demanded. “I see one coming now, push!” he said, looking at the contraction monitor. Kyra began to push with all her might. After about 3 hard pushes, baby A was out.
    “You doing good girl, now let’s get baby B out,” one of the nurses encouraged. Baby B took a little bit longer than baby A, but after about six good pushes, she finally made her grand entrance. Notorious looked at his baby girls; tears instantly began to fill his eyes. He knew that his life had to change in a major way from then on. He now had 5 women in his life that needed him, and he wasn’t going to let the streets take him away from them. Notorious really had enough money to retire but the money was addictive. Every time he thought about making his last flip, he would find himself right back at his connect’s doorstep, but this time, he was pulling himself and Whack out the streets. They had enough workers to fall back; he just knew nobody handled business like they handled business and it was going to be hard to convince Whack of giving it up. Notorious wasn’t giving up his father’s empire; he just thought it was time to be the boss and let the workers work so they could tend to their new families. “Would you like to hold one of your babies?” one of the nurses asked, breaking his thoughts.
    “Yes ma’am, please!” he replied with excitement. The nurse handed him baby A. He then walked over to Kyra, who was holding baby B on her chest. The two smiled as they admired their beautiful twins together.
    “Oh my God, my nieces are the cutest!” Carmen said, silently clapping her hands and bouncing up and down with joy. “So, what yawl naming them?” she asked.
    “I don’t know, what we naming them boo?”  Notorious looked at Kyra.
    “Za’Keyla Datrice and Za’Kayla Denise Baker,” she replied, not taking her eyes off of her baby she was holding.
    “Now that’s pretty,” Carmen said, smacking her lips.
    “Yea, I like that,” Notorious agreed. He figured since the babies had his last name, it was only right for Kyra to have it too. I got some planning to do , he thought to himself. He began to smile as he thought of all the ways he could propose to her. Life was about to become real extravagant for him and his team.

Chapter 10
    “How I love ya big brown eyes, And the way you shake yo thighs. Actin like ya so damn cute, Let a real nigga just knock them boots. I don't need no confrontation, All I want is an ejaculation. 'Cuz I like them ghetto hoochies, Ones who like to pop that coochie.”
    2 Live Crew’s “Hoochie Mama” played through the speakers at Magic City’s strip club in Atlanta, GA. It was Notorious’ 21 st birthday and he had the V.I.P section packed to capacity. The waitresses flooded the booth with bottles of Hennessy, Hypnotic, Rose’, Courvoisier, and Alize’. Notorious was standing on the couches pouring champagne down the crack of a bad ass light brown stripper, with an ass fatter Rosie O’Donnell. Whack was beside him with two huge black trash bags filled with dollar bills, making it thunderstorm.