Page 61 of Dark As Coal

I snorted. “She had no right to judge you. At fucking all.”

He tightened his fingers for the briefest second, “I know. It’s one of the many reasons why I love you.”

I treasured those words that he spoke.

Of course, I could feel his love for me.

I felt it with every breath he took.

But when he gave me the words, it completed my world.

And my world became even more complete when I finally pushed our little girl out of me.

I will never forget the vision of Coal holding our little Leticia Gayle Adams close to his chest while he sang to her.

Five Years Later

Adeline

Of course, we would hear this kind of conversation while we were out for dinner for our fifth anniversary.

“Telling you right now girl, just like this Octopus on my forearm, I don’t intend to be that for you,”

“Then what do you intend to be for me?”

“A Hugopus.”

I watched the confusion morph over the girl’s face.

Then I looked back at the man and saw he looked sad, “You don’t get it?”

“I…” she didn’t say anything more.

I looked at the man, titled my head, the thoughts running through my mind, I turned my head slowly and locked eyes with Coal.

Then slowly, I asked, “How the hell do you hug a pussy?”

At my words, Coal smirked, “Must mean you cover the pussy with your whole mouth.”

“Well, that wouldn’t be any fun,” I muttered as I took a bite of my broccoli.

He lifted one shaped dark brow at me and asked, “How so? You love it when I…”

He trailed off as I started speaking, “Yep. You did that, you wouldn't be able to flick my clit the way you do and cause back-to-back orgasms.”

“Well, shit. Fuck that.” and with that, we continued eating like nothing happened.

Coal

Our precious four-year-old little Lettie asked, “Dad?”

I looked at her from my phone, “Yeah, baby?”

She lifted a tiny brow and asked, “Is Mom a badass?”

Oh hell, Adeline was going to kill me, and needing to make sure I curbed her words, I asked, “Do you want your Momma to wash your mouth out with soap? You know better than to use that kind of language.”

She scrunched up her brow then, “Dad, you told me to sound out my words, and that’s what's written on this case.”

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