“Oh, I’m on her ass,” Pryce assured.
“Thank you,” Dr. Kerri said and gave me a brief hug. “Schedule your follow up with Veronica.”
I ended up leading Pryce out of the office when we left. He couldn’t keep his eyes off the 3D images. I had him holding onto the hoop of my shorts as I guided him to the elevator.
“She look like me, don’t she?” he said, holding the sonogram up for me to see.
“Yes, baby.” I giggled. “She got your head, mouth, and nose.”
He pulled me back by my shorts and forced my neck up to kiss him. “I love you.”
“I love you too.”
The elevator doors dinged, and when they opened, the Alexis chick from the diner walked off. She smiled the second she saw us and put her hand at the elevator door to keep it open. With a smirk on her face as we stepped on, she winked and rubbed her stomach slow and deliberately.
“Fuck outta here, clown,” Pryce gritted, hitting the door close button.
She moved her hand quickly. All of a sudden, our happy moment turned into an ominous one, as if we needed anything else hanging over our heads.
CHAPTER 12
Rule #1… Protect Yours
PRYCE
When we hopped in the car and Dai asked me to take her to her parents’ house before I could even put it in drive, I knew we had a problem. And the last thing we needed was problems while we were on the mend. I glanced over at her briefly before shifting gears and pulling out of the spot. I wasn’t going to insult her intelligence and ask her why she wanted to be dropped off, and I damn sure wasn’t going to try to over explain that bullshit ass stunt that Alexis tried to pull. As a man of action, I was going to take care of the problem before it could fester.
Alexis was on bullshit. On one hand, I felt like Dai knew that, and on the other, she was a woman. A pregnant woman at that. Rather than think logically, she was almost always going to let her emotions lead her. She sat beside me, looking out the window.
Her silence wasn’t loud, and her posture didn’t say she was angry. It seemed more like she was processing and trying to figure out which emotion she should lead with.
“Key is setting up a maternity shoot for tomorrow. She didn’t give me a time, so you’ll just have to be available when she reaches out.”
“Aight, cool. How long you think you wanna spend at your parents?” I asked, getting on the highway. “Not rushing you or nothing. I just wanna make sure I’m back to get you on time.”
“You don’t have to worry about that.”
“You gonna have your mom drop you off?” I questioned.
“No. I’m gonna have my dad drop me off at my place.”
“Not sure I’m following you,” I replied, wanting her to make it plain to me what shethoughtshe was doing.
“You follow very well, Pryce. Don’t do that.”
“I don’t wanna speak in code, Adai. That shit gon’ irritate me and make my head hurt.”
“I’m not speaking in code. You’re choosing to hear what you wanna hear.”
“Man, stop playin’ with me.”
We pulled up outside of her parents’ house quicker than I wanted to. Putting the car in park, I turned the engine off and reached over to grab her thigh.
“Dai.”
“Pryce.” She said my name, mirroring my tone. Resting her hands on her belly, she stared at me with a straight face.
“I don’t know what that broad on, but I’ma check that shit.”
