fast

by Millie Belizaire

Six years ago, Marcel had been sent back to prison for multiple counts of credit card fraud. Not too long after that, Gracie was put in a facility after being diagnosed with early onset dementia.

🎯

You remember Sylvia. You two were just like sisters when you were girls.”

Omg! Their parents were besties too. 😩🤍

BOOM

Sometimes the monsters we save in our memories are scarier than the real thing.

“Marron would accept all her gifts, all her little trips. He was best friends with that bitch.”

Cause I was scared of her. I was so scared of both of them.”

“Nobody. I wasn’t like you. I didn’t have a friend like Shaun.”

“Protect me now by keeping Kahfi safe. You have to make him happy. You have to make sure he’s safe. If Kahfi is happy, then me and Marron don’t never need to come out. That’s the way.” Moreno looked at me like someone getting ready to say goodbye, tears still streaming down his little face. “Me and Marron were never supposed to be here in the first place.”

Omg! 😂

“I wonder if she realizes how powerful she is. You gotta admire it.”

I wasn’t ready for that yet. I was never going to be ready for that conversation.

ultimately allowing the parts of him that he calls Moreno and Marron to simply be Kahfi, too.

If he was trying to irritate me, it was working.

Damn, I couldn’t remember the last time I wanted so badly to touch a man—to touch anyone, really.

You make me feel guilty. And feeling guilty makes me feel uncomfortable.

Aww Kahfi

Dawg! 🤣

We sat there, side by side, pinkies hooked together, looking into each other’s eyes.

but Sanaa, without even realizing it, was making up for all those lost opportunities.

but tonight all I could think about was how I wished someone else was here.

And when it came to mine and Shaun’s history, I wanted privacy.

lifted the lid to find a jumbo vanilla cupcake, iced with a gorgeous swirl of butterscotch frosting.

“Because the night I got drafted, you were on my mind the entire time. I thought about how you could’ve been watching it on TV somewhere out there. I had my phone in my pocket the entire night, just in case seeing me reminded you to finally call.”

“I didn’t know you were there. And I was happy, but I would’ve been happier to see you that night.”

Full 360.

one look at her overjoyed smile now, and I just knew I loved this version of her more.

Who would’ve thought the moment I was able to give her all those things, she’d be the saddest version of herself she’s ever been?”

He’s so petty!! 😂😂

I knew I’d have to thank Sanaa for her unprofessionalism someday. If she was out here conducting her business the right way, it would’ve taken me much longer to find Caprice.

“They don’t always mean to be, but they usually are. Men oftentimes know what they want, and when someone is unwilling to give it, they just… take it.

Sex was never this intense with anyone else.

but it was watching the way she climaxed so unreservedly that sent me over the edge.

Because honestly, someday I wanted to have his babies.

And maybe I could even ask her about my birth mother.

Alice left home at seventeen, for reasons my mother still doesn’t understand, but judging from the way Caprice was treated in that house, it isn’t hard to guess.

Reminder

Even still, I hoped for a long and fulfilling future. I had her in this moment, and I had no intention of ever letting her go. But the best part in all this was… she didn’t want to leave.

I know myself, so I know I would’ve babied her. I would’ve let pity influence my actions.

it’s possible that I could’ve taken my frustrations out on her.

So, despite the fact that I hated to admit it, this timing might’ve just been perfect.

She didn’t tense up in my mother’s arms at all.

But hearing it come out of the mouth of the coworker I was least fond of might’ve rubbed me just a little wrong.

Aww, her first baby is leaving. 🥲

But that didn’t mean it didn’t bother me to hear her say it.

Got Caprice all the way fucked up!

“You don’t act like his doctor. You act like his mother.”

“Because I plan on spending the rest of my life with you, and if I adopt a kid… We’re going to get married someday, right? If we do, Kahfi technically won’t be just mine.”

I had every intention of asking Caprice to marry me on Christmas Day.

Lol. BOLD