Page 160 of One Good Reason

“Oh my God.” She covered her eyes with her hands. “Now, I’m really embarrassed.”

“You should be. Coming in here like you was about to set some shit off.” I laughed. Pulling her hands down from her face, I pulled her to her feet. “I love you.”

“I love you too, Law. And I’m sorry it took all of this for me to tell you.”

“You said it when you meant it and that’s all I could ask for. You need me to grab anything before I come home?”

“No. I’ve gotten groceries already. I was making eggrolls when Ivana Trump decided to show up on my doorstep.”

“Go home, Talitha.”

“It’s not my fault that she’s tucked and plucked.” She shrugged.

“God, I love you.” I avowed, leaning down to suck her bottom lip into my mouth. Her hand cupped the back of my head as she pulled me into her. When my dick started to get excited, I knew to pull back or I was gone end up bending her over. Pecking her lips a few times, I told her. “I’ll be there as soon as I wrap up for the day.”

“Okay.”

Tracing her top lip with my tongue, I pecked her again as smacked her on the ass. “Leave before I can’t control my hormones.”

“Oh I am. I’ve already embarrassed myself enough,” she tittered. “Oh, before I forget.” Reaching inside of her purse, she pulled out a white envelope. I stopped by your house earlier to bring you this.”

“What’s this?” I asked and tore into the envelope. A wide smile broke out of my face when I pulled the black and white sonogram out. “Is this?”

“Our baby.” She finished my question. “Yes, Law. That’s our creation.”

“Thank you so much for this Talitha. You don’t know how much it means to me.”

“You’re thanking me for something you did intentionally. Go to Hell, Law,” she snorted. “I’ll see you at home.” She called over shoulder before walking out.

Tapping the sonogram across my heart, I smirked and slid it in my pocket.I got me one.

“Did she say when she was coming?”

“Nawl. She didn’t.” Turning up the glass of Bourbon, I downed the rest of the brown liquor and sat the empty glass down on the table.

“I sure hope she hurries up. I’ve got a thing or two to get off my chest.”

“Calm down, lady.” I laughed at my mother.

Before I headed to Talitha’s ,I had one thing I needed to do. When she mentioned Adele showing up at her house, that shit set me off. She had no right to go confront Talitha. When I reached out to her, I did so because I needed a friend. I wasn’t in this space that I was building with my mother just yet and I knew Adele would help me sort through it. Not only had she insertedherself in my relationship, but she’d also outed us to Talitha. If that was her way of getting back at me for telling my mother about us then the shit didn’t go that way she intended.

When I left my office, I called her up and told her to stop by the house cause I needed to see her. It wasn’t my intentions to ambush her but my mother was in fact here and had some things to get off her chest.

Adele was out of line, and I wanted to make sure she knew she’d crossed the line with her move. A line that she couldn’t cross ever again. If she did, I would endallbusiness with her and cut her out of my life completely. I made sure Sincere and his guys had shit going on outside of this drug shit. We would be okay. She needed us way more than we needed her and somewhere I think she’d forgotten that. She would be reminded of it today.

“Don’t tell me to calm down, Lawton” she fussed.

“You just remember to keep your hands to yourself. You’re in a damn boot, what can you do?”

“My hands are available,” she popped.

“How does Preme deal with you and that mouth?”

“Your brothers mouth is worse than mine.” She giggled. “I think she’s pulling up.”

“Yeah, that’s her.”

Getting up from the couch, I went to door and unlocked it. “Right this way.” I waved her through the house.

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