Ugh Brandon.
I rolled my eyes just thinking his name. I wish Titan was the fucking father of my son, maybe I wouldn’t have had towork so hard now. When I met Brandon at a tech summit we got to talking, he knew I was married but he was exactly what I wanted; attentive, always put me first, and catered to my every need. Before I knew it we were sleeping together, and I ended up pregnant. Although Titan and I weren’t sleeping together regularly, we still slept together within the window that I conceived. So, Justin could have been Titan’s, and I planned to say that but when Brandon saw the paperwork from my doctor in my purse that I was pregnant, when I was at his house, he asked for a paternity test as soon as I could get one.
When the results came back he was the father I felt bad, but I knew I would be ok because Brandon loved me and wanted me to leave Titan to be with him. So, that’s what I did. Shortly before I had Justin, I left him without any notice because, truthfully, I couldn’t face him, and he was so busy with work and starting his company that I was surprised he noticed I left. I moved to Tennessee to be with Brandon, and it also helped that I had family there. I thought I was home free until Titan showed up to my cousin’s house, thanks to her ratting me out. Seeing him so angry made me feel bad, that’s why I didn’t delay the divorce when I got the paperwork.
Soon after the divorce, Brandon asked me to marry him, and I said yes. I was going to be with the man who truly loved and made time for me. It wasn’t until we were married for six months that I realized that the only reason Brandon had so much time for me and was attentive was because he had no fucking ambition. He had a tech startup, but he barely put any time into it. He was good, but he didn’t possess the work ethic to be great. We were in debt because he forgot to pay or didn’t make enough to pay his bills. He didn’t have Titan’s drive at all. Titan sacrificed and worked long hours to get his company off the ground, now look where he’s at.
Brandon had an idea to start improving drone technology and saw the three million dollar grant Titan’s company was offering. But like his usual lazy self he didn’t feel like filling out the paperwork and he didn’t want to work with Titan because of our history. So, I told him Titan, and I patched things up a year ago and there were no hard feelings. He believed me, but he still didn’t fill out the paperwork, so I took it upon myself to do it for him. I knew Titan so I used all the language I knew would give us an advantage. What I didn’t plan for was when we got selected that Titan would want to meet so soon and with Brandon being out of town, just like he was now, I didn’t have time to come clean to him and make him see the importance of being awarded this grant.
Now Titan was threating to pull out of the grant, and he proposed to that Bailey bitch in front of me! Like she had anything on me, you don’t go from my supermodel figure to some bitch that looked like she could be a video hoe in a rap video. When I met Titan, all his exes were tall and slim like me, now he’s trying to convince himself he love a shorter woman with meat on her bones? Get the fuck out of here.
I looked Bailey’s ass up and yeah; she had a great business, and I bet most of her business came from fucking Titan, but I saw she used to work for Davis Advertising. My family were great friends with the Davis’, and I spoke to Angelo often. I wonder how great their relationship would be when Titan found out Bailey had a reputation of sleeping her way to the top, which is why she was let go from Davis Advertising… or that her newest client, that bitch Giada Morretti, was connected to the mafia. As for Titan, if he pulled out of this grant, I was going to leak some shit out on him too. Make that golden boy image look a little less shiny.
I smiled as I pictured their faces when I exposed their secrets. Regardless of if they were true or not, that didn’t matter in the court of public opinion.
Titan
Iheld Bailey’s left hand as I drove us to her mother’s house. Feeling the weight of her engagement ring against my hand made me smile and I lifted our joined hands to kiss the back of hers. I felt like the luckiest man in the world. After me and Bailey celebrated our engagement with multiple rounds of the best sex I ever had; I showed her the footage of what happened when Eva came to visit me at my office. We had a long ass talk and she was ready to beat Eva’s ass, but I promised her Eva wasn’t worth her going to jail, even though I would spare no expense to make sure she wouldn’t serve any jail time. I promised her I was going to get Eva’s ass out of our lives for good and I loved that she trusted me.
“You nervous?” I asked Bailey, bringing myself out of my head as we turned onto her mother’s street.
“I thought I would be, but surprisingly, I’m not. It’s not like I didn’t have plans for you to meet my mom but with her traveling schedule. Chile, I’m surprised she had time today. Her SkyMiles love to see her coming.” She laughed and I smiled. Bailey was right, anytime we tried to set something up with her mom, that woman was out of the country. She and her mother watched Anthony’s kids when he was out of town on assignment so, whenher mom didn’t have the girls, she was on a flight seeing the world.
“We’re late but we’re here,” I said, parking in her mom’s driveway. I leaned over and gave her a kiss on the lips before looking her over again. “Have I told you how fuckin’ beautiful you look?”
When I saw Bailey come out of her bedroom with her thick hair straightened, wearing a strapless denim jumpsuit and a pair of white Air Forces, I tried my best not to let my dick think for me. My eyes slowly admired how the jumpsuit hugged her body but when she turned around to pick her purse up off the table, and I saw the way her ass was sitting up, my caveman instincts took over and I had her ass naked and bent over her couch in under ten seconds. After that spontaneous session, Bailey had to shower and put her clothes back on. Hence the reason we were late and why Bailey’s hair was now slicked up into a top bun instead of the sleek and straight blowout she had an hour ago. I gave her another kiss on the lips and stepped out to go open her door. When I helped her out of the car; I saw her wince as she stood up.
“Judging by the ache between my legs right now, I got the message loud and clear how beautiful you think I look today,” she said with a smile on her face, and I grabbed her ass as I bent down to whisper in her ear.
“Didn’t nobody tell you to start throwing that pussy back on me like you didn’t want me to pull out.”
“Will you behave? I’m a good Christian woman and I do not engage in throwing back any pussy as you say.” She pretended to clutch her pearls and put her head in the air like she was offended, and I burst out laughing.
“Let me get away from you before lightning strike you down for telling that lie,” I said quickly walking away from her and Bailey was laughing as she jogged behind me. I waited untilshe was next to me before I took her hand, and we walked up the three large steps that led to her mom’s porch. When Bailey reached to put in the code on the keypad near the lock, the large wood door swung open.
“It’s about time you two got here!” My eyes widened at the woman before me dressed in a multicolored kaftan, wearing fuzzy house shoes, with her hair curled in layers around her shoulders and face. She looked exactly like Bailey if Bailey were a couple inches taller. They literally looked like sisters, the only thing that aged Bailey’s mother was the small amount of gray hair around her hairline and lightly scattered throughout her hair.
“Hey, my beetle bug!” She squealed as she pulled Bailey into a tight hug, and I smiled at the nickname because of course I’m going to tease her about that later.
“Hey boo butt!” Bailey said, and I burst out laughing.
Boot butt?! Hilarious.I thought to myself.
When Bailey’s mom looked at me over her shoulder and smiled at me, again I was taken aback because her smile was exactly like Bailey’s, down to the way their noses wrinkle when they smile wide.
“And who is this tall drink of water?” She asked as she backed up to let me and Bailey inside.
“Titan, this is my best friend, my mom Reneé. Mom, this is my fiancé Titan.” Bailey introduced me right before she tightly gripped my hand.
“Fiancé?!” Reneé and a deep voice from down the hall yelled in unison. I looked up and saw Bailey’s brother Dante coming from the kitchen. Her other brother Anthony was right behind him with a smirk on his face.
“I knew I couldn’t miss the looks on your faces when she told you,” Anthony said, chuckling.
“You knew? And didn’t tell us? Matter fact, you didn’t try to beat his ass. I mean, behind. Sorry mama,” Dante said quickly, looking at his mom like she was about to smack the hell out of him for his language. Obviously they didn’t know Anthony and I already had our run in a week ago but if he didn’t say anything, neither would I.
“I was there when he popped the question yesterday in front of an auditorium full of people,” he said when he pulled out his phone. “See?” He held his phone out to his mom, and she snatched it and her, and Dante quickly walked to sit down on the sage green couch in the living room.
I took that time to look around the beautiful craftsman home. I took in the modern yet traditional design. The large linear gas fireplace was the focal point of the living room and the built-ins on each side of it held dozens of pictures. I let go of Bailey’s hand and crossed the room to get a closer look at the pictures of Bailey at different stages in life. Her grade school pictures where she was missing her front teeth but was still smiling brightly made me laugh. Her prom picture made my body fill with jealousy because she was with another guy. I was going to find a way to get rid of that picture.
