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“What? I’m not being rude. I’m actually looking out for you, Drew. My father would freakin’ annihilate you if he heard you call me his nickname. And I know he already beat you up before.”
I mean she isn’t wrong lol
“Because you may be too old for me to put belt to ass but you’re the perfect age to square the fuck up.
🤣🤣🤣
“So…let me get this straight…you thought because my ex-husband hid a baby from me that I would be humbled enough for anything? Is that why you’re here?”
Bingo. Yup and you fell for the okey doke
Vin is still fucking here. I can’t get out of his fucking shadow,”
Good
“I’m okay, Mommy.” Terran removed her oxygen mask to say. “It was hot, Pop-Pop.”
😩😩😩
“Daaaaaadddddddddddd!” He roared like Vin was all he had. Because he was all he had.
Literally 🥺🥺
She didn’t care if it melted her skin off. She would run into that fire just flesh and blood to save him. She couldn’t see betrayal. Couldn’t feel pain. She only saw his smile. Different versions of it. With their children. With her. She slammed her hands against shoulders and body parts swathed in firefighter gear to no avail, body squeezing in agony, strength swallowed by numbers. Heart crushing.
Can you see it, baby love. Your family? The one you always talk about? Decorating your tree in here. Hosting your own Christmas parties. Everything you told me you dreamed of.
how would she live? How would she live in a world without Dalvin Isaiah Hayes existing in it?
“You ran into a burning house after that mothafucka!” “I didn’t run into the house!” “Bitch, you tried!”
???? That’s her child’s father you weirdo
“Tahli, baby…I really believe you feel that. And maybe you’re right…maybe you won’t be with Dalvin again.” Drew shrugged, glassy-eyed. “But I can’t be with you.”
Good. Now bye
“I’d say I have to let you go, but I don’t think you were ever mine.”
You weren’t
Love was boring. Men were boring. Before the parachute…
“Vanessa, if you didn’t take my father back, I don’t know where I would be. Where Leah would be. Where he would be. Forgiving him was one of the most selfless things you’ve ever done.”
“Yet, you never respected me for it. Which was how I knew you would never forgive Dalvin. You wouldn’t respect yourself.”
Exactly ! Tell her ass
couldn’t bear looking at the three of you and not seeing my baby girl as the fourth corner of the square.”
If Tahli can do it, then so can I.
And Jay, if you happen to read this, and I’m not here anymore… Know that I loved your silly ass too. A whole, whole lot. Like you said, we can do this. We can raise this baby together. I just hope we get to.
wtf bro 🥺
you just come in and say everything is gonna be okay and just like that,” she snapped again, “It’s okay. And it makes no. Fucking. Sense, Dalvin.”
“Because you did the fucking unthinkable. You cheated, then you lied. You deceived me. But I still…I still can’t hate you enough. Like, what’s wrong with me? I…I make excuses for you and in some weird way,
mind... It makes no sense,” her lower lip quivered. “I can’t trust you, yet I feel the safest with you. So, what’s wrong with me?”
“Stop trying to make sense of everything,
“We live in a world where we got a dickhead for a president, and he’s letting babies get blown up. None of this shit makes sense.
“Just say the word, Tahli. If it’s one little fucking fraction of a chance…you gotta tell me. Am I picking this up right, or no?”
He always knew what Tahli was running from. Weakness.
“Maybe we talk to him together?”
Finally tf
I’m happy for you, Dalvin. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a man so lost without his family. Thank you for showing me how a man is supposed to treat a woman. And for the incredible sex.”
Don’t ever shrink yourself to fit into a little nigga’s box again. Find you a big nigga, or walk alone.”
A woman, but still the girl to him.
“Yo. We’re at fucking therapy, Dalvin.”
“Fucking parachute had a hole in it,” Vin chuckled off. Tahli slapped her knee, rolling in giggles.
“You talk about me?” Vin shook his head. “All I fucking talk about,” he grumbled.
“Contrary to what you think that’s not just your decision. This isn’t 1536. You can’t have her beheaded like Anne Boleyn for treason. Not that I expect you to know who that is.”
fear of attachments. The trust issues. The desire for external validation. The absolute need to control your life now because you had no control over such a huge part of it for so long. The unrealistic ideals and goals set for yourself and those around you, wrapped up in boss bitch, take-no-shit mentality.”
are we allowing room for true unconditional love to touch us or just when within reason? Within our own comfort levels? Which is cool. Boundaries are cool. But what are we willing to sacrifice for that comfort?”
“Can’t be stingy wit’ your heart and this pussy, baby love. That shit is just cold.”
Because, come on…all the trouble you made, Dalvin Hayes? I can at least fuck your head up.
“You’re wearing a fucking shoestring,” he gritted into her face, almost angrily. “So, who’s not playing fair?”
“Tahli, my dick’s harder than a tree trunk, stop playing with me,” he hissed,
“I wanna wear you. I wanna climb inside of you, baby love. Then you can’t ever get away from me again.” She couldn’t help hugging him back, inhaling his forehead.
“I’d rather go back up to our hotel room…pull these shoestrings off of you, and suck on some pussy,”
IKTR
“You are still…such…a fucking bully,” Tahli moaned, eyelids drooping, body relinquishing. “And you’re still my fantasy, baby love.”
“It will always be you for me, Tahli Celine Hall,”
“You knocked down doors and found shit in me I didn’t even know existed. I will never let anybody get there.”
“No matter how this shit ends. You are my baby love for life. My dream. My light. My reason. My strength and my mothafuckin’ weakness.” He kissed her lips, and she let him. “My parachute,”
“Dalvin…All of our hard work with Larry,” she persisted through delicious, too sweet to stop kisses. “We’re breaking rules. Did you learn anything?”
“I learned that you don’t like to be the one to break the rules,” he stunned her, replying right away. “But you still want them broken. So, you wait for me to break them shits. Been that way for almost seventeen years.”
Vin liked to do these things…but didn’t like to do these things. He did them to make her smile, leaving Tahli cautious with her response.
“I love you,” he got serious enough to say. “I just wish it didn’t take me this fucking long to see what I was supposed to do with that. I understood the emotion. Not the responsibility that came with it.”
Girl take him back damn!
Dalvin I know would have never let that happen. Ever!” Tahli Karate chopped the air. “But DJ didn’t get the amazing dad that Dali and Lo and Terran got. He got pieces of him,” Tahli blubbered. “That shit disappoints the hell out of me. Because if you would have told me from the beginning…maybe we could have had a chance. Maybe he could have had a chance!” She stressed, locking up Vin’s joints, and blurring his gaze.
