“Sevyn,” he called out again and knocked at the door.
“Come in.”
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Yeah. Why?”
“You’ve been really quiet the last couple of days. It seems like there’s something on your mind, and I know that I’ve been gone for the most part, but I wanted to slow down and check on you.”
I set my laptop aside and smiled at him. “I’m fine. Thanks for asking.”
“What are you doing on your laptop?”
“I just finished designing my website. Well, I should say that I finished watching it be designed anyway. I hired the consultant that I met with a few days ago. She was really nice, Deuce, and she understood everything that I wanted. She saw my vision, and I just finished watching her make my dream come true.
“I already have a month’s worth of content to post, and I even recorded a few videos the last couple of days. I just have to upload everything to a folder that she created for me on the cloud. Once I do that, she’ll upload them on the website, and we’ll go from there. She offered to continue maintaining it for me, but I opted for the quarterly maintenance. I’ll post my own posts and videos each week.”
“Damn, baby. That’s great. I’m so proud of you. Let me see it.”
I leaned sideways and grabbed my laptop. When I pulled it back on my lap, Deuce kicked his shoes off and pulled his legs up on the bed with me. He wrapped an arm around me and leaned into me to look at the laptop.
“This is the main page, and all the links to the other pages can be found here,” I stated, clicking on the menu link.
“This looks good, babe. I see that she was able to incorporate your favorite colors, purple and yellow, without it looking like Easter.”
I jabbed him in the side, and he laughed. “What?”
“You’re not funny.”
“I mean, I wasn’t trying to be. But your favorite colors do look like Easter eggs, baby. You gotta admit it. Now if you changed that yellow to gold, they might look like the colors of a popular basketball team.”
“So, you hate it?”
Laughing, he kissed my neck. “No, baby. I love it. This looks great, and I’m proud that you’re moving forward with it.”
“She’s really good with SEO and those kinds of things, too, to make sure that I can be found easily.”
I finished showing him the website before I put my laptop away again. “So, that’s what I’ve been up to today. What about you?”
“Nothing exciting happened in my day. For the most part, the city behaved themselves. But that’s not the end of my day though.”
“I know it’s not. You’re home now.”
“That’s not what I meant.”
“What are you talking about? You know I don’t like when you talk in riddles.”
“Baby, you’re no longer looking at Officer Fullwood. Today, I’m Detective Fullwood.”
“What?” I shrieked, pushing up onto my knees and straddling him.
He grinned and laughed. I kissed him all over his face.
“Okay, okay, okay. You’re excited.”
“Congratulations, baby. I’m so proud of you. I knew you mentioned some tests, and I was rooting for you, but I didn’t know that you had gotten your test results back yet.”
“Got the test back a little while ago, but we were focused on your therapy. You’ve been working hard to get rid of that cane for good, and I’m glad that you finally did. But yes, baby. Not only did I pass the tests, but I applied for a position and finally got one.”
