Page 72 of Absolute Fulfillment
Beyah was tickled. “Now that’s my kind of carrying on.”
Jade laughed. “Not you encouraging this shenanigans when you were just on my phone panicking because my other brother wanted another baby.”
“Um yes. Because I had twins, that shit was and is no joke. Both bad as hell at the same time while their father says, boys will be boys. That statement is bullshit in itself.” Beyah rolled her eyes.
Jade shrugged. “Look, I’m the rich, fine ass auntie. Y’all give me the babies and I spoil them, occasionally babysit, and go home. So yes, if you’re pregnant, Caya, the more the merrier. If you could find a way to get me a niece that would be great, considering I now have three nephews and not one niece.”
Beyah sucked her teeth. “Hell no. I have a collection due in December and I gave you what I got. What you got, Caya? Don’t say Adonis, because he’s counted in the three nephews. You’re up, sis.”
I threw my hands up in surrender. “We’re still new. We don’t need a baby.” I used an excuse that wouldn’t even hold up in a courtroom full of my peers. Then, to be honest, I needed to be going through the bathroom boxes looking for my birth control. It couldn’t have disappeared into thin air, and for some reason, I didn’t think Rennix was crazy enough to steal them… or was he? After all, he did set fire to my living room.
“Anyway, I also came by to let you know the people will arrive for the pool party setup and rental furniture around five-thirty in the morning.”
I nodded. “I’m pretty sure your brother will be up. So besides your boutiques, do you do party planning?” I was genuinely curious.
Jade shook her head quickly. “Honestly, it’s a hobby of mine, but not something I do for anybody. I don’t think I could deal with the public like that in the party planning realm, as I don’t much like budgets.”
I giggled and so did Beyah.
“Which is why my very beautiful sister in-law right here allowed my egghead brother to whisk her away to some beautiful island for her birthday instead of the party I had in mind.”
Beyah waved Jade off.
“What about you? When is your birthday? Do you have something you’d like planned?”
“June twenty-first. Catch me next year and I don’t know yet. Adonis’s birthday is in December.”
“Yes! I’ll definitely plan my nephew’s party. And um, you said the twenty-first. That’s the same day as Rem and Rennix’s. I think we should do a family vacation.”
“And she’s about to plan a family vacation in five days.” Beyah laughed and so did I because from the look on Jade’s face her wheels were definitely turning.
“Baby, pass me a big towel.”Rennix’s voice interrupted me from my nightly facial routine. Not long after the ladies left, he pulled up with Reminisce and Adonis, claiming they had gone to get popcorn after returning the moving van to the rental company.
I set the hydrating cream on the white quartz counter and moved toward the towel closet. Once I had the towel in my hand,I headed to the glass shower room to hand it to him. I held it out for him to grab.
I was going back to where I was when a thought floated into my mind. “Rennix.”
“Yeah, baby mama,” he called out sorta delayed, but he was under water so that was to be expected.
I shook my head because he insisted on calling me baby mama when there was no baby…Not that I knew of.
“Have you seen my birth control?” I knew I was going out on a limb asking him, but I still had to ask.
“Nah, not since I rinsed them down the sink. What? You went and got some more?” The water cut off and he stepped out of the shower.
My fucking jaw dropped because he said that so nonchalantly, like he was admitting to throwing a piece of paper away and not my birth control. “Rennix. Are you serious?” My eyes landed on him through the mirror as he entered the part of the bathroom where I was.
“Yeah. I told you I wanted a baby and you tried to stack the chips on me. I leveled the pla?—”
“Why would you do that? I told you that I’m not ready.”
“Nah you didn’t. But you not being ready didn’t have shit to do with me or you, but everything to do with that bitch ass nigga who did you wrong when it came to Lil G. I told you from jump I wasn’t nothing like any nigga you ever fucked with and I meant that. I told you I was ten down with you and I’m here for you, him, and the child we create out of love. Fuck all that overthinking anxiety you keep letting try to cripple us. We good and we gonna be good. Now come get in this bed and go the fuck to sleep unless you need some help with that.”
My jaw felt like it was still on the floor, especially when I watched him march his big dicked, towel wrapped ass out of the bathroom and back into the bedroom. I didn’t even know how torespond to that because the nigga literally said what he said on some law type shit and left me no room for rebuttal.Shit, did I even want to rebut?
By the time I was done with my facial routine, he was in bed. I cut the lights out and went to lay down. I was only a few centimeters away from him for all of five seconds before he forcefully pulled my body into his. He kissed my forehead while his hands moved to my neck and he mashed his lips against mine like he hadn’t just checked my entire being in the bathroom. Yep, he had me, ’cause for once and for this man, I shut the fuck up and melted into his embrace.
Chapter 13
