So why not?
“Yes!” she screeched while pulling her boo in for the most tightest and tender hug.
She melted into Emery’s arms, feeling like they were floating on a cloud.
Of course, Eris was afraid.
Things were moving fast, it was her first real relationship since Royce, and she honestly didn’t know how all of this was going to work out, but that’s where faith kicked in at.
Brendan smiled and snapped a picture when Ms. E kissed his mama’s lips.
They were so happy, and his life was now one hundred percent complete.
“I wouldn’t wanna raise the kids without their big brother anyway,” Eris whispered into Em’s ear with a teary-eyed smile.
Emery smiled brightly too, nodding her head in agreement.
It was all a part of her plan.
“It’s the perfect fresh start for all of us. Ain’t that right, playa?”
Eris turned around when Em’s eyes wandered off.
“Ooooooh!” Brendan yelled, imitating Reggie Wright from All About The Benjamins. “Wassup, Maverick?! It’s been a lil’ minute.”
“What up, mane. Man, you growing up on me. Ain’t you like six-feet now?” he joked while standing next to him to do some fake measurements.
“Almost! Aye, my mama moving to Arizona, yo’! You still gon’ be around with us no longer being in St. Louis?”
Maverick smiled, flashing his hypnotizing mouth filled with golds.
“I’mma always be around, Lil’ Man. Just know that.”
There were no lies told. The last thing Maverick ever expected was to get both Emery and Eris pregnant after their hot, wild, and steamy night of relentless and off-the-chain sex, but he stepped up to the plate.
He was about to be a father.
Something he’d always wanted yet never knocked his wife for since she was sterile. Miracles happened whenever the time was right. Whether you were thirty-nine-years-old, six months fresh into a relationship, or preferred to date both men and women.
It might’ve seemed crazy.
No, the three of them weren’t in a polygynous or a main chick/side chick love triangle with Mav. No, Emery wasn’t back messing with men. She was with who and only who her heart desired.
Maverick was simply the father of their children.
The grandchild Emery always wanted to give her mama, except with this route, she didn’t have to result to In Vitro Fertilization and risk getting knocked up by a nut job.
If Eris vouched for Maverick and said he was a good man, then she took her lady’s word for it.
And no, Eris had never planned on having another baby. She always told herself that getting her tubes tied after graduation would be a gift to herself since she was knocking on thirty and wasn’t married.
But she had a change of heart.
There was no doubt in her mind that Mav wouldn’t do right by his kids.
Fucking YOLO, okay?
One day, she and the love of her life would have to sit their families down and announce how, in eight more months, two beautiful babies would be brought into this world. And, how her son, who would be the first to know once their moving arrangements were finalized, that he’d be a big brother again.
This was their lives, and they were gonna live it how they wanted to.
It wasn’t normal, but in the precious words of Keyshia Cole…
“This is us, and this is how we love.”
The End.
This book was different for me, and I love stepping out the box and exceeding boundaries.
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No, there will not be a part two, but!
There’s always room for cameos.
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-Author TaugJaye
Author TaugJaye’s Catalog
Standalones
Love From A Boss
Boo’d Up With A St. Louis Goon
Heart Up For Ransom
Do It For The Kulture: Love In The Lou
Boss Bitches Need Love Too
All These Kisses: Love From A Young Thug
Fallin’ For A Young Baller
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Diggin’ On You
Christmas With My Westside Hitta’
Down To My Last Breath
New Year, New Bae, New ME
Sweet In The Middle
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*Sweet Like Rosé 1-2
*Power of the P: Love, Sex, & Thugs: 1-2
*Rich Sex 1-2
*Lover’s Until the Grave 1-3
*Behind Closed Doors
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Your Love Keeps Pulling Me Back
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