Page 45 of Feeling Blue

“Why can’t you just put everything in your name, and I just give you the startup money?”

Forever was silent as she bit her bottom lip softly. Blue knew what he was asking was probably risky, but he trusted her. He didn’t believe Forever would run off on him, but her current quietness was questionable. She’d proven that she’d be down with him at his worst, so he had no problems with making sure she ate too.

“You don’t want your own stuff?” She glanced at him, touching his arm as she waited for his response. “Like, I don’t mind helping you out, but I think you should build your own legacy. That way, nobody can ever take it away from you.”

“You’d take it?”

“Of course not, but you can’t bet on that. People will say one thing and do another when the opportunity presents itself.”

Pain from her past was present, and Blue wasn’t having it.

“Tell me what I got to do to prove to you that I’ll never hurt you like that other nigga did.”

“You’ve already proved that, Blue-Blue.”

“I don’t feel like I have, but we’ll revisit this conversation. Right now, I want you to meet my sister and my auntie,” he cut the truck off, and her eyes widened.

“Why?” she gasped. “Why do you want me to meet your family?”

“I met yours,” he countered, not liking the way she sounded about meeting his people.

After losing his mother and father to gang violence early in life, his mother’s sister took him and his older sister in andhad been their only parent since the age of eight. She meant the world to him; they both did. They were pretty much all he had. Outside of Jugg. He was his aunt’s son, which made them cousins, but they felt like more brothers.

“I don’t know, I guess I just didn’t know we were that serious,” Forever moved slowly, grabbing her purse from the floor and placing it over her shoulder. “But we’re here, so let’s do it.”

She was out of the car before he had the chance to respond, and he thanked God for that because he wasn’t sure what he might have said. When he rounded the truck and met her at the front near the hood, she was fixing the top of her outfit, trying to cover some of her cleavage.

“What you doing that for? My people cool.”

“I just would have liked to look less whorish when meeting your aunt.”

Blue smirked at her nervousness. Now it all made sense. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to meet them; she was just nervous to do so.

“She’s going to love you, watch.” He pecked the top of her head and grabbed her hand.

Blue pulled her behind him all the way to the porch before she squeezed his hand, getting his attention. When he looked down at her, he had to smile. The pink color on her skin made her look sweet enough to eat.

“I’ve never met anybody’s family before. I mean, I met Marcellus’ mom, but she’s my sister’s mother-in-law, so she’s technically family, so she didn’t count.”

Blue’s brows raised and lips parted as he looked down at her. “You for real?”

She nodded.

“That’s why we need to do this another day, I can feel my back starting to sweat.”

“Your back sweating because it’s hot as shit out here and you’re wasting time acting scary,” he chuckled before pulling open the screen door. “If you’re going to be my wife, Forever, they’ve got to meet you at some point.”

Like he’d hoped it would. Her body relaxed as she blushed. “Hush and just open the door, Zurich Rose.”

“Forever Rose, that’s pretty as hell… like you. It sounds like it should be your name.”

“Zurich, hushhhh,” she hid her face while dragging her words.

“Only thing might be prettier than that is our baby.”

Forever batted her lashes at him slowly. “You want me to be your children’s mom?”

“Have I pulled out since I started fucking you?”

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