Page 84 of Breaking the Rules
“Tea is I’m going to be with you forever, Areli,” Savanhi shared happily.
Areli jumped up and down. “Clock it!”
TWENTY-EIGHT
“Look what I got!” Savanhi excitedly shared, holding papers in front of the camera.
Noble was in Emerald City until tomorrow, leaving Savanhi to go back to her normal activities three weeks after their engagement. She’d been running dance rehearsals from her chair. Meeting with the interior designers to get the house together, even assisting Noble and Carl with the new line of protein-packed desserts that didn’t taste like chalk. Her business schedule helped eased the ache of missing him. This would be her life until Noble decided to retire, and she would lean into the newness of it and accept what it was. She was marrying a baseball player. One of the biggest in the league. To maintain her peace and to keep his, she made a life for herself and Areli that wasn’t imbedded in everything Noble.
Noble paused what he was doing to squint at the paper his fiancée waved excitedly in front of the camera. “Do I need glasses? I can’t see shit?”
“Oh sorry,” Savanhi giggled. “I’ll read it to you. Savanhi Day has been cleared to resume normal activity. Your baby is on track, hitting all the markers and I can finally wear nothing but my ring when you get home.”
“Ahh shit now,” Noble laughed before looking over his shoulder at his teammates laughing a cracking a few jokes. Kendrick as the leader.
“The only blue you got on now is your jersey!”
Savanhi covered her mouth. “I thought I was on your Air Pod!”
“It just died. Don’t pay them niggas no mind. They not talking about shit for real,” Noble shared, sitting down in his assigned wall locker for the evening. “So that means you’ll be up when I get home?”
“You know how to wake me up.”
Noble licked his lips and pulled a towel over his head, blocking his grin from his teammates but on full display for his lady. “I sure as hell do. You got to cut it out.”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’m so excited to dance again. All the dances,” Savanhi said with a wink and a giggle. “The Family Day , Yandi has planned to the tee, and we are having a double Dutch competition.”
“You ain’t doin’ it,” Noble spat. “Uh uh.”
“Baby, I can double Dutch,” Savanhi argued.
“You will not jump my baby out,” he dramatically responded.
Savanhi rolled her eyes and pushed her coils out of her face. “I will do what I want to do. Who’s going to stop me?”
“You keep talkin’ like that I will be home tonight,” Noble threatened.
“Do not threaten me with a good time.”
“Here you go.”
“No here you go. Baby, I leap, spin, and twirl half th-” Savanhi stopped covering her mouth.
“I knew it. I knew your fast ass couldn’t help yourself. I knew it! No, baby I’m in a chair. No, baby I’m sitting down,” Noble mocked her voice.
“Deucey.”
He scoffed softly. “ Deucey huh?”
“Yes. My handsome, valiant knight. I was in the chair ninety-five percent of the time. I swear.”
“Uh uh, I don’t believe you now. My little dancer is a little liar,” Noble joked. “You got one time to go on bed rest, and I’m going to hire you a nanny.”
She rolled her eyes again. “I swear you are the drama.”
“Clock it,” Noble said making Savanhi laugh. “Where you headed now?”
“Home to get Areli. We don’t have any classes today. You know she has a whole list of things for me to do.”
