For the Night (Sun)

by Rae Lyse

“If you my woman, then that’s just what it is. It don’t matter how many men you flirt with behind my back or in front of me. I always exist at the top.”

“Flirting is about curiosity. It’s about the possibility this new man might satisfy something inside of you I can’t. Maybe you think this random dude you met is a bigger catch, or maybe you just flirting to learn something about yourself or your man—like if he’ll start realizing you can’t control another man’s eyes... or how sexy you are.”

“I just fuck the curiosity out of her when we get home.”

He made her feel soft and feminine, like God intended.

“Every night can’t be a movie. Slow motion always better than no motion.”

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“You must want me to keep you for more than a night,”

“Imagine starting over at thirty-five without being attached to some insecure, cheating ass man who was incapable of taking care of you,”

“Imagine waking up with the world in your hands and some stupid ass young nigga in your phone who don’t want nothing from you but to bathe you, make love to you, and remind you it’s okay to live.

perfect men didn’t exist. They were all flawed and some of them were broken, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t love.

“You’d leave me over something silly like that? Don’t tell me you a fickle wife.”

I’m a ‘till death do us part’ type of wife and I think deep down you know that.”

That was the perfect description of their lovemaking—fullness.

“You always got options when you with me.”

Babies need structure, reassurance, and routine. They can’t thrive in chaos,

What’s that old saying—spare the rod, spoil the child? Yeah…I don’t do no sparing at home.”