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Carter and I broke up almost six months ago, but we had the kind of bond that allowed me to still feel like I could depend on him for almost anything.
This was the distraction I needed to forget about Mecca, our angel baby, and everything else that was wrong in my world… and there was no one better to give it to me than Carter Leigh.
“I’m in love, I’m in love, and I don’t care who knows it!” she sang, twirling, like on Elf.
wasn’t sure I’d ever get over how hard they made things for us. It didn’t matter though. As far as I was concerned, she died right along with our baby.
“You hate me?” he gritted. “I hate you!” The commotion caused a few people to rush into the room. As I kicked him, they pulled him off me. “You bastard!” I yelled as a man I didn’t know carried me out of the room. “You’re a piece of shit, Mecca! I regret the day I ever met you!” “Fuck you, Lom! You the one! You ruined every-fucking-thing!”
“I ruined everything? You lied to me! I hate you! I hate you! I fucking hate you!”
Not in these people’s business. Lord..
“Fuck you, Lom!” he yelled from a distance. “And fuck you, Mec! It’s on sight whenever I see you.” “Shit, pull up right now!” “Say less!”
This has me cackling so bad. They are so petty 😭
“It’s been fifteen years, love,” I continued. “Fifteen years of us hating one another for something we didn’t even do.” His head flung back, and he pulled me into his chest. “Fifteen years of us grieving a child we both wanted to have.” “Fifteen years of us trying to find love in others when it’s been right here all along.”
could no longer deny my love for Mecca and desire for him. Even before we put the pieces together, he was going to be my exception. The man I gave a second chance to and prayed he wouldn’t make me regret it. To know that he didn’t have to be an exception made my heart expand in size.
I knew I was safe with him. I knew I could trust him. I knew I wasn’t stupid to love him. I knew what we had was real.
know we haven’t talked about us and where this is going, but hearing that you don’t give exes a second chance is disappointing. Now that we know the truth, or at least the truth that concerns us, I was hoping we could start dating and get married.”
For me, the better I treated her and made her feel, the better she would treat me. The more peaceful her life was, the more peace she’d bring to me. What problem a lot of men had was wanting their woman to operate a certain way but they didn’t provide the environment for her to flourish in it.
said, “I love to watch you cum. I love the taste of you, pleasing you, having your pussy on my tongue.”
“I loved the teenage version of you, and I love the adult version of you too. We’ve changed, but your heart and character are still the same. We have the rest of our lives to shed our skin and change together… over and over again. But the one thing that will always remain the same is my love for you. So, I love you, Shalom. I’m in love with you. I always have been, and I always will be.”
“I’m in love with you too, Mecca. I love who you are, not what you do or what you have, that’s why there has never been a replacement for you. God…” Her eyes watered as she laughed quietly, looking toward the sky. “I hate that we spent so much time thinking a lie, but I’m so happy our paths led us back to one another. I love you so much, love. Thank you for having the courage to try again.”
“Sometimes we think a person is our soul mate or forever partner and they are really just a lesson for our character development. A teacher to show us who we are or what we want or don’t want out of love. The most important thing is to learn your lessons, so you never have to repeat them,”
“Yeah. You can say we’re dating if you want, but you’re my woman and I’m your man. And if I find out you giving that pussy to someone else, just know I know how to get away with murder.”
“Okay, no. You know what? You’re not even worth all this.” At the sound of Hosanna’s words, I pulled away from Shalom. “I’m not pregnant.” Sucking her teeth, she put her hands on her waist. “My cousin works here, and she was going to falsify the results of the pregnancy and DNA tests for me. I was hoping we would get together, have unprotected sex, and I’d get pregnant for real. But it’s clear you’re nose deep in this bitch’s pussy and…”
Shalom’s fist connected with her nose, causing Hosanna to fly back. “Oh shit!” I whisper-yelled, trying to grab Shalom, but she was slippery, kicking Hosanna in her chest and causing her body to fly across the room before I had her lifted into the air. “Shalom!”
“You are my past, my now, and my forever. Time couldn’t keep us apart, and now, I want us to spend all that we have left together. I love you more than anything else in this world, Shalom Daniels. Will you give me the esteemed honor of being my wife?”
