Her Keeper

Chapter 146

--Julliet Parris--

"So you threw him out?" I chuckled.

"Yes, I did." She huffed as we both shipped on our iced coffees.

"Well, I'm proud of you." I grinned at her. "You didn't tolerate his abuse any longer."

"Thanks." She smiled.

"We could share my man." I shrugged.

"You're crazy." She shook her head.

"I'm also serious, Ali." I sighed. "I love you." I finally confessed. "I've been falling in love with you for a while and I guess I was afraid to admit it, but it's true." I shrugged.

"And Geo?" She questioned.

"He's always going to be my first love, but I really do love you, Ali."

"I thought that you didn't feel the same." She bit one corner of her lower lip.

"I was in denial." I shrugged. "And I'm sorry." I apologized. "Sorry for disregarding your feelings because I wasn't sure of my own."

"It's ok." She assured me as we shared a brief kiss.

"You're such a beautiful woman." I complimented her.

"So are you." She blushed.

"Way too amazing to be beaten on by some idiot." I ended as I kissed her forehead. "I love you."

"I love you too."

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"Baby, can we talk?" I asked Geo as he scrambled eggs.

"Sure." He nodded.

"Please don't get mad." I pleaded.

"I won't." He assured me as he removed the eggs from the skillet and put them on plate.

"Geo, about Ali..." I trailed off as he got a new skillet and added butter to it.

"What about her?" He asked as he stirred some pancake batter, which he had sitting on the counter, adding some to the heated skillet on the stove.

"When you two were sleeping together, did you feel anything for her?" I questioned, receiving only silence in return for a while.

"Not exactly." He sighed after the long void. "But after she started sleeping with you and with her being around more, she's grown on me." He explained. "I care about her and I have love for her, but that's about as far as it goes." He explained.

"You love me beyond conditions, right?" I asked.

"Yes, Julliet, I do." He nodded.

"So, if I asked you something crazy, you won't leave right?"

"Right." He assured me. "What's up?" He asked.

"Could she be our girlfriend?" I built up the courage to ask. I squeezed my eyes shut as though the foolish guesture would make me deaf to his response.

There was another void, which indicated that he was thinking about it.

"Explain." He prompted.

"Well, she and I will continue with the relationship we have going on, but you'll be apart of it. You know, you and her could have a relationship." I shrugged. "And us three will stay loyal to each other." I shrugged, not being sure how to explain the terms of my odd request.

"Listen Jules, if you wake up one day and this was all just a little phase for you, I don't want you to be mad at me for participating and I don't want Thalia to end up hurt by you or me or the both of us." He sighed.

"Geo, I really love her. No bullshit." I tried my best to convince him. "Genuine shit."

"Cool." He shrugged. "Does she know?" He asked as he stacked more finished pancakes together.

"Yes, she does." I nodded.

"Is this what you really want, Julliet?"

"Yes, Geo." I nodded.

"Polygamy?" He continued.

"I guess..." I trailed.

"No." He shrugged.

"No?" I asked.

"No." He confirmed.

"She called it quits with Elliott." I informed him, hoping to change his mind.

"Did she?"

"Yup." I nodded. "And she decided that she doesn't want anymore children, so she's recently had her tubes cut and tied too." I informed him, causing him to shake his head at me as he chuckled.

"It's still a no from me, Jules."

--Thalia King--

"So what do you want to know?" I asked Geovanni, who sat across from me at the restaurant.

"Everything." He shrugged. "Your passion and drive all the way down to your favorite color." He explained. "Help me to learn you as well as Jules has. If you're going to be involved with my wife, I'd like to know you on the deepest level possible."

"Well, you already know that I'm a fitness trainer and dietician." I began. "I like working out a whole lot and staying in the best shape possible is right up there next to that.

My drive is how happy people are when I'm able to transform their bodies and I could see that I've changed their lives for the greater good. It's refreshing to know that you are able to boost someone's confidence and self-esteem. Also, just like you and Julliet, I'm my own boss and that is something I'm extremely proud of. Especially, coming from where I've come from..." I trailed. "It's something." I sighed.

"Where have you come from?" He asked, cutting into his steak and shoving another piece of it into his mouth.

"I'm from the projects, Geo." I chuckled. "I did my best in high school, but it wasn't enough to get me a scholarship. I signed up for med school regardless and got accepted. I didn't know where my tuition was going to come from, so I stripped my whole way through." I revealed.

"Oh..." He nodded.

"Yeah, I met Elliott at the strip club and everytime he would hit me, he reminded me that he picked me up from the strip club and made me somebody." I could feel myself tearing up. "I let one person tear me down and downplay all that I worked for."

Geo's hand covered mine which sat on the table.

"Hey, if he couldn't appreciate that, I do. I'm proud of you for doing what you had to do to make a better life for yourself." He held my gaze.

"You're not just some pretty face with a banging body. There's depth to you as a human being. You were dealt with a hand of cards that were meant for you to lose, but you won that shit. Don't ever let his shit get you down." He advised. "He didn't make you. You've been making yourself from the moment you signed up for college with the intention of making boss moves, even if you had to strip to afford it." He reinforced. "So what?" He shrugged.

"Appreciate your journey, Thalia, it wasn't all roses, but you got through." He continued. "At least you weren't prostituting and at least, you remained focus." He offered a smile. "Some girls get into the same situation with the same intentions and get caught up. They start doing drugs and selling sex. What you did isn't anything to be ashamed of. I'm proud of you."

Julliet had suggested that Geo and I should go out sometimes and get to know each other.

What we're doing isn't conventional at all and may be frowned on by others, but she's been making happy for a while now.

When we didn't have Geo or Elliot by our sides, we had each other.

It started out with me helping her out with Junior and just us both being there for each other.

I didn't think that we'd become so involved with each other that much that we'd both fall in love.

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~Dolly