Page 119 of His Lucky Blessing

“I’m in the garage.”

“Stay there then. I’m on the way.”

I threw my clothes on and took the elevator down to the garage. It took me a little minute to find her car. She was about to leave and not tell me. Then I thought about the shit, she didn’t owe me a fuck thing. She rolled the window down and waited on me to say something but what the fuck was I supposed to say?

“Where you headed?”

“Not that it matters but I found a condo. I wasn’t supposed to move in until the end of the week, but they called this morning and told me I was free to move in. I’m about to go and find us some furniture.”

“You weren’t going to tell me?”

“For what?” She looked me up and down.

“You right. You right,” I backed away from the car.

“You made it this way. I can’t sit around and wait for a nigga to take care of me and my son. I’ve done it before so I’m holding my head up and doing it on my own.”

I bit down on my bottom lip and nodded at her. That was Blessyn that I hated, it was okay to be independent, but she had a problem with being a little too damn independent. I was still willing to do whatever I needed to do for her because she had my son. She backed away and left.

Ifinally felt like I was getting back to myself. My condo was coming together, and I had the pots rattling while my son played with his toys on the floor. So far, I hadn’t heard one word from Lucky. It was okay with me. I was at peace with it. When he was ready to see his son, I was going to make sure I was available. I was in the process of finding me another studio to cut hair in as well. I had two that were close to my condo, but it was going to make it harder for people to get to me. If they wanted me to cut their hair, they would have to travel to me.

Merci was going to watch Kani for me on the days she didn’t have to go to the doctor or some type of adoption meeting. It was time for me to get back to the money. If I worked it the right way, I’ll be back in a shop in no time. The insurance money I made from my shop was sitting in my savings account. I didn’t wantto touch it. When the time was right and the right building came along, I was going to buy it cash and start from scratch.

I started promoting myself on Instagram again and was getting a good response from a few people. All I needed was a faithful few to get my shit back popping. I had been gone for months and that was bad for business. That was never going to happen again. My phone started ringing from the security downstairs. The only person knew I was her was Merci.

“Hi, I have someone down here by the name of Lucky. He’s not in your list and I have to ask permission to let him up.”

I rolled my eyes. “Let him up.”

I immediately sent a text to Merci’s ass. That was the only way his ass found out. She couldn’t hold water and it irritated me to no end. My doorbell went off. It’s been about a week since I last saw him. He hadn’t called or anything. If this was how he was going to be a father to his son I didn’t want or need him. I wasn’t going to let him pop up when he wanted to.

“What are you doing here?”

“Coming to see my son and make sure you don’t need anything.”

“I don’t.”

“Man, move yo ass outta my way.”

Lucky made my ass itch when it came to him not getting his way. I was not about to play this game with him. He could spend all the time he wanted to with his son, away from my shit.

“I’ll pack him a bag so you can take him with you. I don’t want you in my shit.”

“I’m not going nowhere with him. It’s too hot out there for me to be out there with my son. If it’s a problem, then I won’t come until shit calms down.”

“He ain’t seen you in a week. I’m sure it wouldn’t matter.”

“Not arguing with you today. I got shit going on and I hope you would understand that.”

“Are you staying for dinner?” I ignored him and moved on.

“Hadn’t had your food in a minute I guess I can stay if you don’t mind.”

He ended up staying longer than I expected him to. It was cool because I was able to get some stuff done while he spent time with Kani. He was spoiled and if it wasn’t something that had his attention, he was under me all the time so I couldn’t get shit done. I washed clothes, folded them up and cleaned my bathroom. Lucky laid Kani down in his room and stood in my bedroom door.

“What you got planned for your birthday?”

“Nothing. Hopefully, I’ll be working by then.”

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