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"No." I shook my head, quickly realizing as he softly chuckled to himself. He thought he was slick, trying to pull a fast one.

"No kissing, we're still not together." I reminded, getting off of his lap.

"Aight. Remember that."

29.

Tiana

Next morning

"Yo, T. You hungry?" Dominic called from the kitchen as I scrolled my phone looking at apartment listings.

"A little bit." I said back to him, not taking my eyes off of my phone.

"Whatchu want to eat, ma?" He asked as he came into the living room, plopping down onto the couch beside me.

"I don't know." I finally took my eyes off of my phone, looking over to him. He pulled me over to him, letting me lay my head on his shoulder as I sighed deeply. Simply enjoying my time with him.

Though we did have a squabble earlier once he called the girl he'd promised to call, letting her know that he was no longer messing around with her. He ended up having to send Deja to beat the girl's ass since she was being disrespectful about the whole thing, claiming that I was hoe and that he could do better.

Typical bird behavior.

"Stop." Dom spoke up, breaking my away from my thoughts.

"What?" I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Thinkin' about shit that's gon' stress you out, Tiana. What I tell you about that?" He asked, making me smile. He was beginning to sound like the old him more and more these days and I couldn't be happier.

We were slowly getting over the cheating obstacle and building a much stronger bond this time around. I was actually starting to think we needed these problems. They were obviously only making us better.

"I love you." I blurted out and he smirked, looking down.

"So much, Dominic."

"I know me cheating on you messed you up but I'm going to do everything I can to get us back on track, okay?" I asked, feeling myself becoming emotional.

He was such a good man to me.

"Tiana, Shh." He shushed me, making me look at him.

"I love you too, Aight?" He said and I smiled small.

"And when I told you I wan' make this work that meant leaving all that other dumb ass shit in the past. We're leavin' it in the past na'."

"Aight?" He asked and I nodded slowly.

"I don't wan' hear no more about that shit or this shit that went down today. Shit don't matter no more. It happened na' it's over."

"Okay." I spoke softly.

"Aight. Na' just chill out, baby." He said, making me raise my eyebrows.

"Baby?" I asked in a joking tone, surprised he'd called me that. He hadn't called me that since we broke up months ago.

"Man.." He chuckled, standing to his feet as I watched him in amusement.

"Don't get too happy, you still just one of my little ho-." He started but stopped, making me punch him in the butt.

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