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She smirked and sipped from the bottle of water in front of her. “I’ve had the papers drafted for about two years, but I never had a reason to have them served until now. I won’t watch everything I worked for be given away in back child support ormy reputation go up in flames. I worked too damn hard and gave too much of myself to end up in a corner.”
I nodded again. “Okay. That’s feasible.” It was news to me that she had the papers for so long, but then again, it was a reason they said never to marry a lawyer. Some believed we didn’t love because we were so calculated, but of course that wasn’t true. We just saw the worst of things and promised ourselves that we’d never be in such compromising positions. It was the skill of easy detachment. I learned it early, and that was why I never allowed myself to get so lost in Sabastian, but with Taurus, it didn’t apply. For some reason, I got lost in this man every time he stepped his bowlegged, beautiful ass in front of me.
“I’ve just realized that I have to get back to me.” My mother’s voice reminded me that I was still sitting with her.
“Are you coming back to the city?” I questioned.
“Yes, I’m looking fo?—”
“Come stay with me until you find it,” I offered.
She giggled. “I don’t want to?—”
“Please, Mom,” I begged. The funny thing was I barely went to my loft three days out of the week, so she’d basically have it to herself, and she’d have the space to do all of her soul-searching. I just wanted to be there for her through whatever process because I just knew she felt it. She was deceived by the very man she changed her whole way of life for.
CHAPTER
NINE
SAVIOR
I sat in my office,drinking from the brown alcohol, watching the news as they covered the story about the body pulled from the lake. I was pissed off and confused as fuck when Amil called me and told me to check the news. I watched the shit in pure bewilderment. Who the fuck killed Che? There wasn’t no way that shit happened like they made it seem. Some shit was off, and I couldn’t put my finger on it. I had too much other shit on my brain to be thinking about the uncertainties of Che’s death. I was too fixated on the fact that I was about to be a father in less than a year. I was in disbelief at first, but then a switch flipped, and the idea of my seed growing inside of Regancy had me smiling in the oddest of moments.
“Nigga, why are you in here smiling like a fucking psychopath?” Taurus’s voice made me look at him standing in the doorway.
“Damn, a nigga can’t be happy or nothing?” I asked.
“Hell nah, especially if he ain’t sharing the joy.” Taurus walked in and took a seat in the chair across from my desk.
I reached in my drawer and pulled out sonogram from Regancy’s visit. Then I slid it over to him and waited for the clowning to begin. Hell yeah, I had become one of those niggas who kept the sonogram just so I could pull it out, and that was just what I did.
He didn’t speak for a while. He studied the photo before a grin crossed his face. “My boy is finally growing up, and I’m about to be an uncle out here.” He smiled proudly.
I laughed because here this nigga was once again making shit about him.
“So you’re out here trapping now?” he asked.
“Hell nah. It just happened. I can’t tell you how the fuck I ended up here, but I don’t have one second thought about it.”
The knock at my door took my attention and put it on Mel who now occupied the space.
“Can I talk to you for a moment?” she asked.
I looked toward Taurus and nodded. Seconds later, I watched him stand to leave my office. My attention fell on Mel as she stood awkwardly in front of my desk. Shorty was paying attention to everything in my office before she looked at me.
“What do you need, Melanie?” I asked.
“She tells you to call me by my government, and that’s what you do, huh? You mus?—”
“What the fuck do you want, and why are you here, shorty?” I asked because I didn’t have time to go back and forth with her.
She sucked her teeth like I gave a fuck. “I think I’m pregnant.”
A chuckle escaped my lips. “Fuck you telling me for? I wrapped it up every time I fucked, baby girl.”
“They don’t always work, Sav?—”
My reaction to her news was the opposite of how I reacted to Regancy’s news. “A’ight, so what the fuck are you telling me for?” I had to catch myself before I got too deep in my thoughts.
