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I’mfour months pregnant and tired. I’m going to start whipping their little butts if they don’t start listening to me. My mother stands in the doorway laughing at me.

She would think this is funny. I’m getting payback for being hardheaded. I’ve been lenient with the two of them because they’ve been through a lot.

My marriage to Cam hasn’t been an easy one, not because of us but because of my crazy ass mother-in-law. That woman has done everything she could to be in our business.

We almost got a divorce because of her. It wasn’t until Kay put her in her place that she got the damn point. She told her toleave her and her family alone. However, by then I had been fed up and moved to my father’s house in Jersey.

I couldn’t take that woman showing up in our home to start shit while telling me how great a mother Kay is to her daughter Chanel. Kay is a great mother and she’s a loving wife toherhusband. When his mother wasn’t fucking with my head, she was fucking with Cam’s.

I had had enough of her shit. Cam had to choose us. Raising two boys of my own is overwhelming enough when married to a baseball player who’s never home and travels the country most of the year.

Cam no longer bats for his team. He stopped batting two years ago. However, the team wanted to keep him on because of Cal, so Cam took the batting coach job they offered him.

However, he was released after Cal’s injury. Not to our surprise. I saw it coming before Cal fucked up his shoulder.

“They are taking advantage because their father is away,” my mother laughs.

“Who are you telling? He needs to come home before I hurt one of them,” I grumble as I shake my head.

My phone rings as my mother continues to laugh at me and the boys ignore me. I need a break from everything, so I pick it up happily. A smile comes to my face when I see it’s Sim.

She’s been here in New York for a few years now. She sounds happier these days. I’ve met her husband once.

He’s handsome and interesting as well. The man is observant and gives off a dangerous vibe. Some of the things Symphony said about them and their relationship makes more sense to me after meeting him.

“Hello,” I sing into the phone.

“Hey, Maribel. How are you doing?”

“Hey, Sim. I’m well. How are you?”

“I am well. I would like to share some news with you. You were on the top of my list to tell after my husband and family.”

“Sounds important.”

“Yes, it is. I have had the honor of being there for you and your twins and my brother’s as well. Now I am expecting a child of my own,” she says.

“Aw, I’m so happy for you. This is awesome, how do you feel?”

“I am very nervous and excited. Val has been helping me and allowing me to babysit. I am thirty-seven so I worry about the baby’s health.”

I smile as she rambles on the other end. I’ve heard so much about this Val woman. She seems to be important to Sim.

“My husband says I shouldn’t be worried. We will love our child either way. Oh, wait. Those are not the things I want to talk to you about.

“I’ve called for your friendship and to make an appointment to spend time with you. Will the baseball player allow you to have lunch with me?”

I laugh to myself. I love Symphony. Hearing her think out loud is always amusing.

“Cam isn’t here,” I say sadly. “He’s in the Dominican Republic. He’s been working there for the last few months as a batting coach and trainer.”

“This has you sad?”

“Yeah, this is the second pregnancy I’ve been through without him. It was a great opportunity. I couldn’t allow him to not take it.

“Cam loves to work in the industry. I don’t want to take that from him, but I miss him. Especially after the two years we were separated.”

“I still don’t like your mother-in-law. She made me feel very uncomfortable. You should have allowed me to make her disappear.”

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