Happily Ever After (Trequel to Love Me Back)

No Games

Monroe in the mm

•••• Cree ••••

"What?" I asked, hearing something fall.

"Christo, Caden, stop running!" I yelled and the pitter patter of their feet stopped.

"Well he doesn't necessarily have to be in her life. But he missed last month's child support. And that needs to be made up or he'll have another case on his hands." she smiled, moving her blond waves out her face.

"It'll be paid." I mumbled, and shut the door in her face.

I put my back against the door and breathed through my nose.

*

After I dropped the kids off at my mom's house, I headed to the jail to visit Chris like I do every Saturday, while Private Show by T.I blasted.

I cut the car off in the middle of Chris's part and headed to the front desk. I told the woman who I was and an officer led me to the usual private room that was all white with only a table with chairs attached to it in it.

I waited a minute or so and they opened the door, uncuffing Chris. I reached out my arms and hugged him, and he leaned down and squeezed me.

"How are you babe?" he asked as we both took our seats.

"Tired... lonely... tired." I said and he chuckled. "You?"

"Same." he said and I laughed. "How's the kids?"

"Good for the most part. Christo is acting out in school, but I think that's cause you're not here. And I think Anya's ready for preschool, she may or may not be catching a cold though. And the twins are fine."

"And the other one?" he asked and I made a face.

He looked down at my stomach and I realized what he was talking about.

"Ohh!" I said and he nodded. "Good I guess. I forgot to get a checkup."

"You know damn well you can't stress too much and you're pregnant. You're getting a checkup within the next week and you're gonna show me pictures"

"Yes daddy." I rolled my eyes and he smirked.

"Say it again." Chris licked his lips and I tried to keep a straight face but ended up laughing.

"No." I said as he grabbed my hands in his huge ones. "But something happened this afternoon."

"What?" He asked squashing his eyebrows together.

"Nia came talking about you missed child support last month, and some bull about you should be in Royalty's life."

"I haven't talked to Nia in five years. She hasn't said one word to me since I started giving her child support. And I don't understand how I can miss it if it's directly drawn from my account. She just tried to scam another five thousand out of you, and I always tried to be in Royalty's life, but she got full custody and hasn't let me see her. Only way I saw her is by stalking an Instagram account." he huffed.

"Five thousand? That bitch gets sixty thousand a year. She's living off you."

"Yeah, I know that." He said in a duh tone.

"So what're you gonna do?"

"Nothing. I tried to get partial custody almost two years ago but didn't get it." he said, using his left hand to run his hand through his curls and smoothing down his shaved sides.

"If you need anything, let me know." I said rubbing his hand and looking at a new date on his wrist. But it wasn't a random date, it was our wedding date.