Page 20 of Hired By My Rich Baby Daddy 2

“Nephew… what you doing back here?” He frowned. “I thought you left?”

“I did.” I dropped my keys on the entry table. “Then my biggest brand deal fell through on the way to the tarmac. Talking about they want fresh new faces for the campaign.” I ran my hand down my face.“And then Ginger got on my last fucking nerve on the plane, so I said fuck it and got off before we even took off.”

Unc laughed. “Yeah, that sounds about right. That girl stay working your nerves. I don’t even know how y’all lasted this long.”

I chuckled because he wasn’t lying.

He put his hand on my shoulder. “Listen, nephew. Fuck that deal. You built a whole name for yourself, and I’m proud of you. If they don’t wanna work with you, make your own shit. That way ain’t nobody ever gon’ be able to pull nothing out from under you again.”

“I hear you.” I nodded. “I appreciate that, Unc. For real.”

He studied me for a second. “So why you still standing here looking like that?”

I let out a breath.

“Talk.” He said.

“You remember that contest I did a year and some change ago?”

His expression changed slightly. That was the same weekend everything happened with Reesie.

“Yeah. I remember.”

“I met somebody that weekend.”

He gave me the side-eye. “You slept with her.”

“Yeah.” I laughed. “But it was more than that.”

“Okay. And?”

“She was here today.”

His eyebrows shot up. “Here?”

“Yeah. She was interviewing for the nanny position for King.”

Unc stepped back. “Nephew, I ain’t even gon’ lie to you. That sound like some meant-to-be type shit.”

I laughed. “Man, what?”

“I’m serious. Me and your auntie lost each other for years and somehow found our way back. Sometimes people come back around for a reason.”

I stood there thinking about that.

“Did you like her?”

“Yeah.” The answer came faster than I expected.

He nodded slowly.

“Honestly, Unc, talking to Noree was easy. The kind of conversations I wish I could have with Ginger sometimes.” I shook my head. “Gin always gotta be on her phone, taking pictures, going live, worried about what everybody else got going on. Sometimes I just wanna exist without all that shit.”

“And this girl made you feel like you could?”

I thought about it for a second.

“Yeah.” I nodded. “Noree was… different.”