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October 21 - October 25, 2025
I’d never in my life thought about being someone’s husband, but looking at her face, I could tell her ass would say yeah if I asked her to marry me tonight.
I didn’t know what else I had to do to get him to open up to me about his family. He talked to me about everything, but that. I hardly knew anything about him. How could he love me when he didn’t trust me? Most importantly, how could I love him, when I knew nothing about him?
That was the shit that made me happy with her. Anything I did for her, she did a little dance. The other day I had a late meeting, and I bought her home a slice of deep-dish pizza, and she did her little happy dance. Along with a card filled with another apology and three dozen roses, I got her a $60,000 tennis bracelet, and she still did that cute little dance before a few tears filled her eyes. She’d put it on and hadn’t taken it off. I didn’t know what it was about her that made me want to buy her everything I saw.
The shit I was feeling for this girl was crazy, and something I’d never felt before. It was too strong, almost like her little ass was some type of paranormal entity sent here to suck every ounce of life out of me.
I was thinking, my mother couldn’t have known her baby daughter would be a freak-bitch like that.
“I love you, Quinci,” he whispered in my ear. There it was. He didn’t say, Princess, I love you. He said, Quinci. “I love you, Quinci.” That was real. That was outside of the expectations that he’d set…we’d both set. Those words were the reason that I’d cried while he made love to me. Those words were the reason I let him work himself in my asshole. Anal sex while high, tipsy, and emotionally high was the best journey I could’ve ever taken my body on. When he was done filling my ass with his cum, he said, “Please, don’t leave me.”
Since we’d been living together, I realized that he loved affection and comfort. Though we couldn’t do it in public, he loved our long hugs in the house, and how I held his hand when we were just simply walking together around the house. He also loved when I grabbed his hand in the car. Because of the way he was, I knew that he’d never admit it. It all came together when he told me the way he grew up. His mother didn’t nurture him the way that she should have.
“We don’t know you from a can of dog food, and now you’ve sunken your claws in my son, and everyone at this table already knows what you want from him.” “And since you know everything, what might that be? What is it that I want from your son that he ain’t already given and giving me?” She couldn’t say anything. Round one belongs to me.
“You have some nerve to be talking about disrespect when you’ve disrespected me since the moment I sat down. Although my parents taught me to be respectful of everyone, sometimes, you must meet disrespect with disrespect, especially when one knows better, or should. I told Mr. Dymon…after we consummated our relationship, to never ever let a bitch disrespect me, and I must say bitch, and you could absolutely be mutually inclusive. I’m going to tell you something that no one at this table has the balls to tell you, and that’s to shut the fuck up sometimes before you run into someone just a
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“So…” He stood and grabbed my hand, standing me up. “Effective immediately—” “Dymon, don’t do this,” Diesel urged, all but forced. “I quit. Declan can have it. Roger. Whoever.” He looked at his father. “And you. You let Roger hire someone who hurt me to my core just to make me quit, and you did nothing. You said nothing. I can’t and I won’t respect that, ever.”
I followed her through the house, nearly bumping into her when she stopped suddenly in the entry way of the dining room. Derek sat at the table across from her parents, and two older women who had to be her grandmothers that she always spoke so highly of.
“That’s the thing. I won’t be able to work in high-stressed environments, at least until I’m able to control something I didn’t even know I had. But you make it…made it look so easy. You got up every day, put on your nice, little tailored suits, ran the company with an iron fist, while still holding people’s respect. I thought I could do it. Even Dad made it look easy. I was a fool. And I have to apologize to you, Dymon. I hope that you can accept my apology, and you and I move forward…being better brothers to each other.”
“Declan laying in that hospital bed slapped me in the face like two bricks. I kept thinking what if something happened to you, and I never got to apologize to you. That guilt would eat at me for the rest of my life. And then it didn’t help when you came in there with a busted eye and a busted lip. You don’t have to accept my apology right now, but at some point, I hope you will. I’m going to do better unless it’s too late.”
When he told me that it was Fiona who’d hit him, I lost my mind. Against his wishes, I texted her and told her that our friendship was officially over and that she was a terrible friend. I gave her a few more choice words before telling her if I ever seen her again, I was going upside her head. I waited for hours for her to respond before I blocked her.
She’d changed me so much over the year. I was a better man because of her. A better boss because of her. She was still the calm to my storm. Even when I knew I was getting on her nerves, she never lost her patience with me. Every day I woke up, I thanked God for her.

