Page 53 of Regancy & Savior
“I didn’t buy a new bed to keep sleeping in yo’ lil’ ass bed,” he said like he was proud of himself.
I turned around and looked at him. “You bought a new bed for me?” By then I had a big goofy ass smile on my face.
“No. For me. Yours is too small with that fucking footboard.”
I pursed my lips. “Then what was wrong with the one that you had before?”
“Somebody’s bougie ass wouldn’t sleep in it, talking about another bitch was in it.” He shook his head.
I smiled at his obvious gesture. He was cute, and the fact that he wouldn’t come out and say it was comical. I leaned into him the entire ride up. The moment we stepped off the elevator, my smile disappeared because we were face-to-face with this female that just wouldn’t stop coming around. Now, I was wondering if he was sending her mixed signals because no sane human being would keep going where they were not wanted.
“I need to talk to you about our situation, Savior.” She was even bold enough to stand her ass at the door like he was about to let her in and speak to her
I glanced up, and he looked beyond annoyed, but this was his fault. Instead of acting up like I wanted to, I allowed him to open his door. Then before I went in, I stopped and turned around,facing him. I decided to pull a him on him. “Two minutes to tell your friend bye, babe.”
“I’on need it. Melanie knows what the fuck I said the last time.” He nudged me into the door and walked in behind me.
“What about our situation, Savior? Does she know that I’m carrying your baby?”
My eyebrows lifted, and I threw my head back. I looked directly at him for an explanation. I wanted to know if there was some truth to her statement. I knew I would be able to tell in his facial expression. The thing was it never changed. It was the same blank expression filled with annoyance as when we exited the elevator. What she said to him got no reaction from him whatsoever.
Once he closed the door in her face, he focused on me. “The only baby I have is inside of you. Don’t start that overthinking shit. I’m tired as fuck, and I don’t have the energy to go there with yo’ ass. Now bring yo’ ass back here and come go to sleep.” When he finished setting my ass straight, he walked off toward his bedroom without another word.
I had to ignore the fact that the alpha shit was what turned me on. So I stood there in the living room for about two minutes wondering if I should nut up or let it go. Shit, he lowkey gave me no choice but to let it go for tonight. Also, he gave me no reason to distrust him or question what he said, so why would I allow the words of another to send me off the edge? As if I had just given myself a lecture, I nodded and followed him. When I reached the back, he was sitting at the end of his bed shirtless with his face in his hands. I walked over and stood in front of him, resting my hand on his head. “I’m not gonna nut up, if that’s what you’re worried about,” I joked.
He looked up at me with a grin. “I wasn’t worried about that. I already knew that you were about to get in this bed and go the fuck to sleep.”
I laughed. “Just like that?”
He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me into his lap. “I love you enough to look over yo’ shit.” He made it seem like I had issues.
I laughed before I caught what he said.He said he loved me. “You love me?” I questioned.
He tucked his bottom lip beneath his teeth, and he nodded his head. “What? You’on love me back?”
“I love you too,” I found myself uttering after I studied him for long enough. For me, it was this moment right here. It was the exact moment when nothing else mattered but the located love.
TAURUS
I glared in Lane’s direction, and I shook my head. She had been in her feelings since she saw her pops at the restaurant with old girl. His old creep ass didn’t even have the decency to hide what the fuck he was doing.
“You know I’ll go beat his old ass for you,” I offered like I had done at least five times already. She just didn’t know she already had me ready to beat his ass because of all the pouting that she’d been doing lately.
“Then I’ll have to defend you because he’d press charges.” She never looked in my direction. She was too busy pouting out of the window. We were picking up the dinner that she ordered from some little restaurant on Lake for Regancy’s birthday and taking it to Savior’s crib. Lane wouldn’t let this birthday dinner shit go, no matter what went down.
“I ain’t scared of no fucking charges. I’ve had them pressed on me before, and they didn’t stick then.” I shrugged my shoulders.
She laughed. “Do you think that female was the sister my mother told me about?”
“Nah, baby. Shorty looked more like a sugar baby or one of those thangs off California. Plus, ain’t no nigga sitting down in the cut with their kid. Baby, that shit looked intimate.”
She nodded. “Something has to be wrong with my eyes, because they keep trying to see the best in?—”
“Ain’t nothing wrong with your eyes. It’s just in your heart, and ain’t nothing wrong with that.” I corrected her. Where she saw it as a flaw, I saw her ability to see the best in people a gift. She would try to see the best in anybody, and the moment they showed her their worst, I’d be right behind her to correct it. I was willing to beat the good into a motherfucker behind that one.
I felt her eyes on me after I said that. “You’re right. I jus?—”
“People ain’t shit, baby, and they don’t deserve you. As long as you know that, then you’ll be fine.” I shifted the car into park before looking over at her.
