What Brought Us Together

To Give is To Receive

The girls were currently on FaceTime to check in and Virtue couldn't stop laughing at her best friend. "Tarryn why are you hiding?" Virtue asked her as she watched Tarryn hide in the villa.

"I'm hiding because Ephraim tryna stuff me with dick every 2 seconds," Tarryn said with an exsperated breath and Virtue couldn't stop laughing.

Tarryn was currently hiding in the private villa that she booked them for their honeymoon and it has been 2 days and they've been having sex nonstop. Ephraim had her all around the villa; the table, the bed, on the beach, and outside by the pool. They even got caught once and did they stop? Nope. She wasn't complaining but she feels like her coochie bout to fall off her body.

"Its you guys' honeymoon! You're in Hawaii! Y'all just doing what newlyweds do," Virtue told her with a smile.

"Virtue my coochie needs rest. Coochie can't get no rest because Ephraim's dick practically sleeps in it." Tarryn said with a loud cackle. At this point, Virtue's sides hurt and tears were streaming down her face.

"Welp you already pregnant so him getting you pregnant can't be his end game," She said while wiping the tears from her face. Tarryn cackled again before she carefully came out of hiding and she sat on the bed.

"A bitch ain't complaining, the dick is always great. But enough of me and my newlywed shit, what's tea in California and why are you putting makeup on?" Tarryn asks.

A sigh drifted out of Virtue. In that moment, Virtue told her the conversations that she had with her mother so far and Tarryn gasped at everything. She told her about Aspen and Graham and their children, she let her in on Ezaz and the adoption and she shared the conversation she had with her mother about her leaving and how her father is the culprit.

While adding her finishing touches to her makeup, she told her that she's getting ready to go to her mother and Garrett's vow renewal. She wore a sage bubble sleeve pleated dress and she paired it with her clear heels since she felt like her nude ones wouldn't exactly go and so her face was neutral. Her beautiful braids were down and she put some braids in the front, to the side so it can be out of her face. She sprayed her perfume and then she took a deep breath.

"My first question is, are you okay? Seriously?" Tarryn said with concern.

Virtue shakes her head. "I spent the last 16 years of my life loving this man, defending this man, and making sure that he never feels alone, dead or alive, and to find out that he abused my mother in her final moments with me before she left just has my head spinning. I cried to him about her for years and to find out he's the reason I don't have a mother?" Virtue shakes her head in disbelief because even now, she still can't believe it.

"I'm just as shocked as you are. But I can't help but think that she would've came back eventually," Tarryn ponders.

"He threatened to kill her if she took me with him. Killing her or abusing her, the situation would have turned out the same; I'll be left without a mother regardless." Virtue said as she grabbed her purse, and walked out of the room and closed the door behind her.

Tarryn nodded her head understanding her point. Eventually Ephraim came back in from his swim and Tarryn hid under the covers. Of course he caught up with her and they started getting touchy and feely and Virtue is convinced that Tarryn forgot that she was on the phone. In that sense, Virtue hung up the phone and sent her a texting saying that she's gonna get back to her later.