Page 153 of Don Caselli

“Whole damn family refreshing. Can’t wait to make her my wife… shit don’t feel real.” I thought about watching Navy walk down the aisle to me.

Telling her how much she meant to me in front of our family and friends. I couldn’t wait to sit down with the lawyers and have her pick out anything she wanted. As a honeymoon gift, I was taking her away on a month-long honeymoon. We were going to explore Europe, like she had spoken about on one of her videos from a year ago.

I didn’t want to rush down the aisle, I wanted the full wedding experience for us. Navy was close with her family, and I wanted her mama to help her plan the wedding, and to have everything she told me she wanted in the front seat of my car.

“Word.”

“Everything on pause until we know something, right?”

Until we got the green light, everything was moving as usual. Menace was watching Sigel and Agent Robinson like a fucking hawk, not giving them any room to make a move without us knowing. We couldn’t do anything right now, so business continued. With Jasper’s brother dead, there was no immediate threat because Kora had Core wipe every piece of information that he had.

“Goon and Mens was talking about having Diablo handle Robinson.”

“He back fully?”

“He’ll make the exception when it comes to Menace.”

I looked at the text that Navy had sent me. She was sending me pictures of houses she was looking at for her family. “You really getting your balls cut?”

“I’m not a fucking dog, Beans… I’m not getting neutered.”

He laughed. “Shit, I’m not letting them put nothing sharp near my shit.”

“Greene wants kids, so you good. As for me and my baby, we good on having kids,” I replied, thinking about my appointment in a few days.

“I want a few of them, too… you gonna let them spend the night?”

“My God kids always got a home with me… probably gonna wanna get the fuck away from you.”

“Fuck up,” he snickered.

Navy’s name popped up on the screen and I answered. “What up, Pooh?”

“That one is over a million.”

“And?”

“That’s a lot and over the budget… and don’t kill me.” I laughed because I knew she had something crazy to say.

“What?”

“Alright, well, we were looking, and your realtor took me to this house that came on the market… she said that it was beautiful, and perfect for newly-weds. A huge yard for Mink… we don’t have to go all the way downstairs to walk her. I don’t have to sleep in your fuck pad bed.”

Beans snorted.

“Do you want it?”

“I want you to see it, and then we can have a conversation about it. The realtor said she’s gonna send you the information because you’re a numbers guy,” she mocked the realtor.

“I think the house is perfect and it’s in the same neighborhood as ours,” I heard Stevie in the background.

They were going shopping for the event that we had coming up. “Stevie, I’m not trying to live within distance of my brother.”

“Not even your nephew?”

The call switched, and her facetime was coming through. Beans answered and held the phone up. “Look at his cute little Caselli face,” Pooh held my nephew up into the camera.

“I make pretty cute babies, Don,” Stevie bragged.

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