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“According to these statements, your annual salary is around nine hundred thousand dollars. Thirty-five percent of that is roughly twenty-four thousand, five hundred dollars. That’s what you will be paying in child support to Mrs. Ashby monthly, along with a lump sum of six hundred thousand for back child support.”

“Are you serious? If she’s married, she doesn’t need that kind of money!” his stupid ass yelled.

“Do you hear yourself, Mr. Bryers? The money is not for the mother, it’s for the child. And just because you have that typeof attitude, I’m granting Mrs. Ashby full custody with a later date to discuss visitation. Case dismissed.”

She banged her gavel and all I could do was cry.

“I told you that you had nothing to worry about.” Hassan kissed me.

We were walking out of the courtroom and as soon as we got outside, Kari ran up in our face.

“You really went and married this bitch, Haze? After all we’ve been through? You do me like this?” she screamed, making a fool of herself.

“Girl, stop all that damn yelling out here like you crazy. It’s clear y’all ain’t have no damn home training,” Journei snapped.

Keith came barging toward us, but the sound of Hassan taking his gun off of safety stopped him in his tracks.

“Take another fucking step and you’ll be patching up your own chest,” Hassan seethed.

All Keith did was stare. He knew to back down. Anybody that pulled out a gun outside of a courthouse didn’t care about shit.

We all watched as Keith left with Kari and Cheryl in tow.

“Y’all ready to celebrate?” he asked with a wide smile.

“Thank you,” I simpered.

“You got it.”

Chapter Nineteen

Rakeem

Haze took everyone out to dinner after the court hearing to celebrate. After everything was over, I asked Journei to come home with me, and I was honestly surprised she agreed. My parents picked up both of the girls, so we had some time to ourselves. I’ve been listening to my brother and mother over the past couple of weeks for getting on me about the way I was ignoring Journei and how Lu wouldn’t want this. It took for Lu to come to me in a dream and curse my ass out like she always did for me to get my act together. So here we were now, sitting in my living room in an awkward silence. I knew I needed to say something, or she’d walk her ass out of her.

“I’m sorry,” I blurted.

She looked up at me.

“I’m sorry for shutting you out. That was fucked up on my part and I can be man enough to admit that. I didn’t know how to stay loyal to Lu and handle my feelings for you at the same time. Shutting you out was definitely not the route to take, but it was the only thing I knew how to do,” I confessed.

“You know she told me that she saw me in her dreams?” she asked.

“She told you that?”

“She did. She told me to be patient with you, because it would take a minute for you to come to terms with lovingsomeone else. I told her that we were just friends, but she told me she knew better. She said she heard you talking to Haze about me. Y’all thought she was sleeping. She said she heard you say that you think that you were falling in love with me,” she revealed.

Damn. I didn’t know she heard all of that.

“What did you say to that?” I asked.

“I told her I could give you as much time as you needed because you were my bestie.” She smiled.

Scooting closer to her, I leaned in and kissed her lips for the first time. “What if I want to be more than your bestie?” I asked.

“Then you would have to show me.”

That was all I needed to hear before I carried her upstairs and into my room. I had long ago had the room remodeled and replaced the furniture. I knew I wouldn’t be able to stomach having reminders of Lu in here, and I’m glad I did. When I laid her down on the bed, I took a moment to take in all of her beauty. Taking my time, explored her mouth with my tongue and let my hands run wild over her thick frame. She still had on the button-up shirt that she wore to court, so it was easy to loosen it and slid it off of her shoulders. I reached for the button on her slacks and undid them right before I slipped them over her thick ass hips. The way her pussy was staring at me through the thin fabric of her panties, I couldn’t wait another minute before I tasted it. I wasted no time snatching them off and invading her lower lips with my tongue.

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