Happily Ever After (Trequel to Love Me Back)

Mamas

Cree's mom top left, her eldest sister Talia top right, her second oldest sister Aliyah bottom left, and her twin sister bottom right

Cree

"My favorite couple." Nia said, coming around to stand next to Monroe.

"They're a little too perfect don't ya think?" Monroe smiled, taking a swig straight from a bottle of Jack that I didn't notice was in his hand until now.

"What do you two want?" I asked, as Chris still stood in front of me.

"I want Chris."

"And I want my daughter, but we can't all get what we want." Chris retorted to Nia.

"I gave you that option! I offered us a chance to be a family, but you turned it down.

"Because I didn't want to be with a gold digging, lying ass bitch." Chris said and the gun Monroe had rang a bullet through the wall, next to Chris and I, which was good because if a neighbor heard it they'd probably call the police.

"On my cue Roe." Nia sighed.

"I have a proposition for you." Nia smirked. "You could come live with me, and that way you could always see Royalty."

"No." Chris and I said at the same time.

"You have no say in this." Nia snarled at me. "You two need a moment to talk about this?"

"Roe, lead them to the kitchen." Nia said to Monroe who had already downed half the bottle.

He held the gun firmly as we walked into the kitchen and stood with his back to us in the doorway.

"You can't be thinking about actually living with her." I told Chris.

"Royalty's about to be seven. I haven't even seen or talked to her in almost a year. I already missed most of her life and that Ba nigga is posing as daddy to her."

"Chris I get it, but you're talking about leaving me with five kids versus one. You could just take her court for shared custod-"

"I've done that three times and it hasn't worked, and with me going to jail now, there is no getting partial custody." he cut me off and huffed through his nose. "It'll just be for a little while."

"What's a little while and when?" I crossed my arms.

"Maybe some months after the baby is born." he shrugged, and ran his hands through my currently straight hair.

"Whatever Chris." I mumbled, and he took my arms and made them circle his torso.

"You guys wanna finish before Chris has to go back?" Nia interrupted, coming from where Monroe was standing.

"What is she talking about?" I asked Chris and he sighed, and smoothed his hand over his face.

"I paid my way out of jail for the holidays... I go back the day after New Year's." Chris said.

"And you weren't gonna tell me? How the hell did you even pay your way out."

"It was two million for ten days, and I was gonna tell you soon enough... How did you even know that?" he asked Nia.

"I have connections." Nia said. "Come back out here so we can finish talking. Nia said walking back into the hall.

I opened the empty cabinet that the kids couldn't reach, and pulled a hidden nine millimeter from it and put my hands behind my back as I followed Chris in to the hall and took the safety off it.

Monroe's back was turned, and I took that as the chance, and sent a bullet through his core, and Nia screamed as he fell to the ground.

"The only reason I didn't shoot you is because of Royalty. Remember that." I said putting the safety back on the gun, and the sound of sirens became more clear.