“I told her we fucked like rabbits the night it happened so she should be prepared.” My mouth fell open because he would say something like that.
“Nah, she mentioned wanting grandkids and I told her that we’d start practicing for them soon.”At least he was a tad bit conservative when speaking to my mom.
“You want kids with me?” I didn’t even know why I started crying.
“As of right now, I wanna spend my life with you.” When he got on one knee next to the hospital bed and pulled out this gigantic ring, I started hyperventilating. He snatched the blood pressure cuff off my arm because it was getting tighter, making the heart monitor machine go off.
“Relax Kateri because if you die before we get married then I will be forced to find someone else.” He wiped my tears and grabbed some tissue for my nose. I really had the ugly cry with snot running and everything.Never in a million years did I think a man would propose to me.
“So, will you marry me?” He slid the ring on my finger before I could answer. I was about to be a married woman and to a powerful man. Wait! What if he tried to kill me for not agreeing with things he did? I had to ask him a question too.
“Why me, Cairo? There’s so many women…” He cut me off.
“All those women aren’t you and they don’t make me better.”Did he really say I made him better?
“You’re clumsy as hell, funny, you’re about your business and from day one you’ve always demanded respect from me and I love that shit about you.”
“You do?” I put my hand out to stare at the ring.
“I do because it lets me know I won’t be able to walk over you. You’ll be by my side, not behind me and no other bitch could ever take your place in here.” He placed my hand on his heartand I melted. All I wanted to do was go home and let him put a million more babies inside.
“I want eight kids, a Porsche truck and for you to always come home to me. If you can promise that, I’ll start planning the wedding right now.” He thought what I said was funny.
After all the time we’ve spent together, in my heart I knew no other man would be good enough for me. Marriage was always something I wanted to do as a kid and now that a man actually wanted a family with me and to make me his wife, hell yea I’m going through with it.
“As rich as I am, all you want is a truck.” Moving my legs over so he could get in bed with me, I laid my head on his chest.
“And you.”
“You really know how to pull strings at my heart.” I lifted my head to look at him.
“Where you been all my life?” I smiled and told him waiting for his ass to find me.
“Babe, I wanted to tell you something before the shooting.” I tried to finish and once again we were distracted because my mom, Mike, Felix and what seemed like a lot of his family coming in the room.
“Oh my goodness. You’re getting married.” My mother almost broke my hand by how hard she snatched it to look at the ring. Next, his mom came up and hugged me so tight Cairo had to move her away because he noticed the pain on my face. You would think I wasn’t in a hospital by the way people were coming and going.
Over the next few hours, a few others came and it was like a damn party. I’m not going to lie, as much fun as it was and being extremely happy, I had to ask Cairo to have them leave in order to rest.
His mom wished grandkids on me by literally placing on her hand on my stomach and praying. Mike went back and forthwith all the guys until Cairo gave him a look. I was shocked he listened but understood when he said the guys were about to do something bad to him. I couldn’t even be mad because Mike was saying and doing too much.
My mom kept crying and saying she was glad my father was dead and not here trying to take credit. That was weird for me to hear, especially when I had no clue if he was dead or not. He never came around, sent money or called so me and Mike didn’t care about him.
Cairo’s dad told him that he better not do what he did with his ex, yet refused to elaborate on it when I asked. Then again, Cairo did get agitated after it was brought up. Everyone else was very happy and congratulated us a million times.
Once they all left, Cairo had the doctor discharge me. In a way I was happy but then I wasn’t. My mom and brother still lived at home and what if the person went after them. He’s gonna be mad when I ask him to take me home.
“Take this ride with me.”Cairo demanded coming out the shower with a towel wrapped around his waist. Rolling over in the bed to look at him, I had to stop myself from asking for more sex. Last night was the first time since the shooting and I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it.
The night we left the hospital; I asked him to take me home. When he asked why and I explained how scared I was for my family, he swore that nothing would happen to them. Well, Mike may get his ass whooped by the guys but they won’t kill him. That did not make me feel better.
Long story short, for the last week since I’ve been discharged, I haven’t left his house. He had the physical therapist come andrequested for me to see a regular therapist after the shooting just to make sure I wasn’t traumatized. He really made me feel safe and I let him know not to blame himself for the shooting. Knowing how he felt about me, I wouldn’t dare assume he’d put me in any sort of danger.My mother called every day to ask if I were ok and pregnant. I had to start telling her to wait for me to call just to get a break.
“I don’t wanna Cairo. I’m tired and sleepy.” He chuckled and sat next to me on the bed.
“You can sleep all day tomorrow. I really need for you to come with me.” All he had to do was smile and a bitch agreed.
“I need to find out why that smile can make me do anything you ask.” He tossed the covers off and helped me out of bed. I was getting better at walking but with some of the fragments still inside, the pain is sporadic and I’d have to sit.
