Madison made sure to sleep alone with the kids,locked up in the room. She had decided she wasn't leaving the room until one of his cousins came or at least Smiley. She had to pee really bad but she feared him hearing her. He hadn't said anything to her when they got back to the house. He hadn't even looked at any of the kids. Vito knew what he did was wrong but he couldn't help but feel like his old self again. The look of fear in her eyes made him start up ,like jumper cables. He smoked in his room and stayed there. He never left the room. Madison bites her lip in pain. She has to go real bad. She tried staying sane for the children. She takes one more look at them before leaving the room to go to the bathroom. She runs to the bathroom and locks the door.

"I shouldn't have left them alone." She panics

Quickly she sits on the toilet and forcefully pushes all the urine out. After cleaning up she makes her way back to the room. Her stomach growled and she needed to eat. She told herself after seeing Hassan get shot she wouldn't eat but she needs to eat so Cairo can eat.

She wanted to leave and go to her house so she would be less paranoid despite what Dre said. She placed Cairo in his carseat and lays a blanket over him.

"How am I going to carry two babies?"

The kids's door open and Vito appears with just some sweats on

"Are you going somewhere?"

"I'm going home." She mumbles holding Cairo's car seat to her side

"Come on I'll drop you off."

Madison shakes her head before sobbing.

"So what are you scared of me now?" Vito questions letting out a scoff

"I-I don't know you anymore." She cries

"Ivy Im r-

"No let me s-speak. You can't just S-Shoot someone in front of me and expect me-me to not be afraid of you. You hurt me mentally, physically,and emotionally. Vito I'm traumatized, I-I don't even want to be here. I just want to leave." She bawls

"Ivy don't make it seem like you didn't push me. You know who I am. A hood nigga,and I was tired of you playing with me."

"Y-you shot a man in front of me. I never asked for this."

"Well I gave you a chance to shoot me so you should of taken the chance" Vito answers nonchalant

"Victor I just want to bring my kids home. Please just let me leave. I don't want to do this with you."

Vito shakes his head before chuckling.

"You hate me now?"

Madison's head drops to the floor. Unable to look in his eyes.

He inches closer to Madison, making her scared.

"Answer my damn question. You hate me now?" He grits

"YES I HATE YOU NOW. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR? I DESPISE YOU!" she yells

Vito chuckles before gripping the carseat out of her hands.

"Yeah that's exactly what I wanted to hear." He says in front of her

Their eyes stayed connected. Madison is scared to even look away.

"I don't know what I saw in you." He says shaking his head looking her up and down

"I don't know your father but all I know is you're just like him deep down."

"What did you say to me?" Vito asks plopping the carseat on the floor.

Madison backs away until her body hits against the wall

"Y-you heard me. You're just like him. You're so angry at your childhood that you want to take it out on me. You want to force what that man did to you on me. You want me to feel that fear just-

Madison couldn't finish her sentence Vito had slapped the side of the wall making her shut her lips.

"You don't know nothing about me." He mutters looking in her face

"I could kill you right now." Vito whispers

"Victor your just like him." Madison cries

Vito pulls his gun from his waistband and points the gun towards her head

"I think I rather you have a closed casket."

Madison shakes her head before feeling something hit her.

"Ahhh!" Madison screams jumping out of her sleep.

She looks up to see Layla's hand on her face.

"It was just a dream" she whispers

She sits up and places Layla next to her on the pull out chair. The room light was dim so she wasn't able to see Vito sitting in the corner.

"You were screaming" Vito says startling her

"You were having a nightmare" Vito states

"Victor please" she cries shaking her head

"Ole boy ain't dead. He made it...unfortunately"

Madison shakes her head and runs her hand through her hair.

"I only came to apologize about putting my hands on you. I would lose my mind if someone dared put they hands on my daughter,Or my son"

Madison kept quiet,the knot grew bigger making her stuck to talk.

Vito scoffs and rises from his spot. He makes his way over to Cairo's crib. He stares down at him before leaning his head in the crib. He plants a kiss on Cairo's cheek and whispers in his ear.

"Love you son"

His hand rubs against his back before he plants another kiss this time to his back.

He shakes his head slowly and reaches in the crib. He holds Cairo's body in his arms and begin swaying side to side.

"Daddy loves you so much." He plants another kiss to his head and plants him back on his stomach

He heads over to Madison making her nervous. Vito notices her tensing up making him respond.

"Ain't nobody worried about you give me my daughter." He mumbles

Vito reaches over Madison and scoops Layla up into his arms.

"Your Daddy is gong to miss you. Be good cause I'm always watching you." Vito whispers giving her a kiss on her chubby cheeks

Madison watches as Layla smiles in her sleep. Little did she know her daddy will be gone when she gets up.

Madison watched him plant Layla back down beside her.

She wanted so badly to ask him where he was going but she knew he wouldn't tell nor would her pride allow her.

A Month later

"Layla didn't mommy say not to put that in your mouth?" Madison asks taking a toy car out of her mouth

"Cairo you're draining me" Madison groans looking at her breast

She plants him in his cot and heads to the couch.

Madison did exactly what she said she would do. She took the kids to New York and instead of living in the house Vito got, she decided to get an apartment and pay rent with her hard own money.

Every week Dre sends her two grand to help out ,coming from Vito of course. Once he realized she wouldn't take his money personally he made Dre give it to her. He also made Dre bring the kids to his house so he could see them.

She picks up her laptop and begins sorting out pictures that she took. She started a blog and decided to add little stories at the bottom. Successfully getting the attention of many New Yorkers.

"Dada" Layla squeals

" nooo Dada isn't here munch" Madison responds looking up at her

"He hasn't even called to see y'all in a month" Madison mutters to herself

A call to her phone gets her attention. She picks it up and looks at the unknown caller id.

"Who could this be?"

Madison answers the phone and waits till the person speaks.

"Hello?" She answers sweetly

For a month she learned to work on herself and really get to know more about herself. She's been having more frequent phone calls with Dr.Diaz and just learned to leave things in the past. She told herself she forgave Victor and she just wanted to be single for a while.

"Hey I'm outside and I would like to speak with you?"

Madison faces scrunches up before she looks at the door.

"Who is this?" She asks curious by the deep voice

"It's me ...Seven"

"Seven?"

Madison gets up from her spot in the chair and starts to the door. She looks through the peephole confirming his presence. She unlocks the many locks on her door and opens the door.

"Hey Madison."

"I can't believe you're really standing right here at my door." She mutters shaking her head

"Look I know I have been gone for-

"It doesn't matter... I forgave you." She states sticking her head out in the hallway to look around

"Can I come in?" He asks

"Not right now. I have the kids with me." Madison explains

"Oh...Is he around?" Seven asks

"I don't really want to talk about that right now but no. No Vito is not around."

Seven smiled on the inside but on the outside he stayed cordial,not showing any emotion.

"I'll see you around M."

Him saying that one letter shook Madison's spine. Her memories went straight to the day Victor put two bullets in Hassan.

Seven walks away and Madison closes the door behind him. She heads back over to the couch and stares at Layla who's babbling.

"Baby your birthday is almost here." She squeals

Madison and Mahogany got to know each other. She decided to also move to New York so she could be near Layla, despite her not really having it financially.

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