American Woman: Book 5 (Final)

Chapter 16

"So you invited Lisa?" I asked Mayte, surprisedly, after the ceremony.
"Yeah. I mean her and Lenny are on such good terms now. It's like they are our extended family." Mayte answers.
"Wow. It's just so different than how it used to be. They've come a long way. I still can't believe she's having a baby with that...."
"That what?" Prince walks up and asks with a smirk. "That giant?"
"I've never known anyone who makes you as insecure as he does." I chuckle.
"I just don't see what you two are always going on about. He's cavemanish. That appeals to y'all?" Prince scoffs.
"It appeals to more than just us. I think Lenny even has a slight crush on him." Mayte laughs.
"Oh please! I'm more his type than that guy." Prince defends.
Mayte and I start hysterically laughing. "Are you just bothered with the fact you are turning 49 next week?! I mean you're almost middle aged now!" Mayte teases.
"Haha, that's right! But that young kid still has nothing on me." Prince brags. "Plus women don't want boys, they want men."
"Oh yeah? So when do you think you'll be one?" I joke.
"You ladies need to eat or something. You're vicious tonight. I'm going to go find the girls. They ran off to look for Zoe." Prince remarks before leaving.
"Your girls look so adorable tonight. I still wish you would have brought Reign. I'm dying to hold him again." Mayte smiles.

Waverly

Devon

"My boobs are telling me I should have brought him too." I laugh. "We are still trying out this new part time nanny. I've finally given in. It's not even really a nanny I don't guess, just a babysitter for whenever we need someone. She kept all 3 kids a couple weeks ago for a few hours and survived so Prince thinks she's the one."
"A nanny huh? Better watch it, that seems to be who always goes after the husbands." Mayte warns. "Is she single, young, and attractive?"
"Yes!" I say, with slight panic.
"Girl! Really?! Have you learned nothing after all these years? Is she a Prince fan?" She continues.
"I actually don't know. But she doesn't seem like Prince's type..."
"I'm not saying she is. I'm saying she may have or will develop an infatuation with him. I don't think Prince would ever do anything with anyone but you don't want some girl constantly tempting him or flirting or whatever, do you?"
"Of course not. Shit! Should have hired some old hag! I just thought the kids would enjoy someone younger better. I mean to keep up with our brood, you have to have a lot of energy. I would have hired a man but I get the pedophile creeps when a man wants a job like that, you know?" I insist.
"I don't know if a man would have been any better to be honest. A lot of them are totally into Prince too. Lots of gay men are holding out hope that Prince will come out of the closet one day."
I couldn't help but laugh. "Well I will say this at least. Prince has a 'rule' that he's never alone with females. He either calls or emails them or brings someone else into the room if he needs to speak to them in person."
"Well that sure is different!" She laughs. "He even does it with employees, like Diana or Amy?"
"Oh. I don't know about that. Probably not..."
"See, this chick, what's her name..."
"Sarah...."
"Sarah, is going to use that loophole to her advantage. Oh, Mr. Nelson, I need to speak to you in private about your child..."
"Why wouldn't she want to speak to me?"
"Bc she doesn't want to bone you!"
"Mayte!!!" I shriek.
"I'm just trying to give you some friendly advice. I was around long enough to know how a lot of these women are. He may have changed, but they haven't. Prince is charming, you know that. Pair that with his looks and his bank account and even seemingly well intentioned women lose their minds."
I had to admit what she said plagued my mind more than I cared to admit.  I'm not sure why. A lot of Prince's employees are female so why should this woman be any different. I will say though she is younger and prettier than anyone else working for him. I haven't noticed her eyeing him in any way but I've been more focused on how she interacts with the kids, not him. On the way home, I decided to pick his brain a little without coming out and saying  anything about her specifically. "So, you know a couple weeks ago when you said you don't put yourself in the position to be alone with females anymore?"
"Uh huh." Prince responds, while turning the wheel. "Why?"
"Well, I mean, you don't do that with like Amy or Maria, right?"
"Well I usually just talk to them in passing. I don't know that I would call a witness in if I needed to speak to them alone about something. They've all been with me so long and we all trust each other. Even Amy! But I wouldn't like close the door if we were in my offices or something unless it was like super private I guess...."
"Yeah. So like what if it's an employee you didn't know very well and they asked to speak to you alone or something?" I questioned.
"Yeah, then a witness." He says, without hesitation.
"What if nobody was around?" I push.
"Well that never happens but I guess I would just ask if they could call me later to discuss it or something."
"What if they insist it's urgent." I continue.
"Well then I guess I would but if nobody is around we could just do it out in open and not have to go behind closed doors." He suggests.
"And the lack of a door is going to stop things from happening?"
"No I don't guess but it just doesn't look as bad. I mean the other thing I have to think about is what someone might say happened. Can't be too careful, you know? I never thought that way before but if there's nobody around it's just one person's word against another. Kinda scary. That's why I don't want to be alone with females, especially ones I don't know, anymore. Plus just out of respect for our marriage. A married man has no business being alone with a woman. But, like I said, as far as employees, I trust them all." He assures me.
When we arrived back to the LA house, the girls were sacked out so I carried Waverly in, while Prince carried Devon. Sarah was sitting on the couch, reading a book. I decided to test her, and even Prince, a little. "Hey babe, just lay Devon down right here and go ahead and show Sarah out. It's really late, I'm sure she wants to get back to the hotel." Without missing a beat, she jolts up and Prince begins walking her out of the living room. So they both failed that! She seemed a little too eager and he just ate his own words! I laid Waverly down too and tiptoed towards the front door to see what I could hear. "I forgot to ask y'all to call me before you arrived so I could make sure the taxi would be on it's way. I'm sorry. I don't mean to make you have to wait."
"Oh, um, I didn't think about you having to take a taxi back. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. Young female, alone, late at night, LA. That's not the safest situation. Let me grab my keys and I'll drive you." Prince responds and I hear his heels clicking back towards me so I scurried back to the living room.
"Hey, momma. I'm going to drive her back to her hotel....."
"The fuck you are!" I blurted out, without even thinking.
"Excuse me!" He says, eyes as wide as saucers.
"What happened to not being alone with females?! You're full of shit!" I accuse. "Alone in a vehicle and driving to a hotel is way worse than behind an office door! Where's your logic in that?"
"You are so right. I was just saying how I've got to be careful and this could look really shady. My bad. But can we try it again without you cursing at me like you own me!"
"I'm sorry." I truthfully apologized. "But it's hard to see how you couldn't see that!"
"I know. It's something I have to practice, especially with employees. But I don't even know her very well yet. I just almost felt fatherly to her. I mean I would want the boss to offer our girls a ride instead of stick them in a taxi." He defends. "Ok let's start over." He turns around and enters the room again. "Hey, momma, why don't you drive Sarah back to the hotel and I'll get the girls in bed." He smiles.
"Oh, so now your sending your wife out late at night in LA. You don't care about my safety?!"
"Shit!" Prince throws his head towards the ceiling. "Should we just let her stay the night?"
"So she can sneak into our bedroom or something. Um no! I'll drive her. I was just kidding. I grew up here. I'll be fine!" I insist.
"Sneak into our bedroom?! Come on babe. I highly doubt that would ever happen. And if it did, you would be there. And you're right, I don't want you out this late without me. So let's just let her stay and you can drive her to the hotel tomorrow. How does that sound?"
"It sounds like we don't have any other options. I mean I would be fine to take her now, but I don't want to make you uneasy. Even though her staying here kinda makes me uneasy." I admit.
"She's been here all night alone with just Reign. So what's really the difference? We will all just be sleeping. Well maybe not me and you the entire time." He wiggles his eyebrows at me. "I'll put the girls to bed. Why don't you get her something of yours to sleep in and show her to a room, preferably away from ours. She may be too young to hear the kinds of sounds I'll be causing you to make."
"Pshhhh!" I roll my eyes. "She's older than Mayte was when you and her got together. And I'm sure you did all sorts of things to her."
"Not any worse than what I bet Lenny's doing to her right now. And her probably imagining it's Jolly Green Giant. I swear if I ever find out you fantasize about him..."
"How would you find something like that out?" I chuckle.
"Well that's comforting! I can't believe you said that! If I said something like that I would be in the damn doghouse!" Prince huffs.
"I didn't say I would! I just asked how you would find out something like that. Geez take a chill pill!" I complain.
"Oh me take a chill pill? I know what all those questions in the car were about and you freaking out about Sarah staying. You think I want to screw her...."
"No. I think she may, at least eventually, want you though." I admit.
"Why?! She hasn't said or done anything to give that indication. And even if she did, I can turn women down, Jensen." He replies. "You think I've never been hit on since we have been married or something?"
"What?! By who?!" I insist.
"I don't know. Just women, and disturbingly, several men too...."
"Where?! When?!"
"The men or..."
"Prince!"
"I don't know, baby. I mean you do know how famous I am, right? It comes with the territory." He claims.
"Like what are we talking about here? Like women, or men, have straight up propositioned you?! Where was I? Why have you never told me this?" My voice getting louder with each question.
"First of all, relax. I've never even come close to cheating on you...."
"Maybe we need to define cheating!"
"What does that mean?! You think I have?!" He growls.
"Well if all these people have been coming onto you, maybe!"
"How does THEM doing that make ME a cheater?!"
"Well I don't know about the men, but women  don't just hit on men without the man first doing some flirting or talking or something to give them the inkling..."
"That's bullshit! They do!" He insists. "At least in my world. I don't know that I've had anyone, besides like a fan yelling something out, straight out proposition me. But I've definitely had some women, and fucking dudes, say things or look at me a certain way that I knew what they were getting at. But not bc I led them on or anything like that. I'm a thousand percent faithful to you. And, no, maybe I wouldn't consider flirting cheating but I do think it's inappropriate and I DON'T do it."
"Define flirting...."
"Oh, come on, Jensen. You know I joke around with people and stuff. Is that what you're getting at?" He huffs. "You do it too."
"I don't know. I just feel like all these people have been coming onto you behind my back, or maybe right in front of me and I haven't even noticed. Maybe I should have always been on guard..."
"No. There's no need for it. I'm committed to you. Even if I ever did get tempted or something, I wouldn't do it. I would never risk losing you. I would never risk tearing my family apart. Ever!"
All I could manage was an "ok" before I embraced him tightly. "I don't want to be jealous or insecure. And you've never given me a reason to be. It's just Mayte starting talking about how nannies are who husbands cheat with...."
"Oh my God! Sometimes I really want to slap her! When we were looking for nannies while she was pregnant, she wouldn't let anyone under 50 apply. Of course back then I really did still flirt a lot so I guess I can't blame her. But good thing Sarah isn't really a nanny. More like a glorified babysitter." He chuckles. "Speaking of, she is probably wondering why I haven't come back. You need to go tell her she can stay. And I guess if there is something about her that makes you uncomfortable, we can find someone else."
"No. She honestly hasn't said or done anything. I'm sorry I let my mind go there. She's just really young and attractive."
"So?! And yeah she's young in a "I could literally be her dad" sort of way."
"Well technically you could be my dad. Young dad but possible."
"Well I'm only dad to our three babies. And I'm daddy to you." He pulls me to him and gives me a quick peck before ushering me out of the room.
As I was heading towards the front door, I met Sarah in the hallway. "Oh hey. Sorry I had to use the bathroom. Is Mr. Nelson still wanting to drive me or should I call the taxi? It's really not that big of a deal if I go alone. I think he may have forgotten I grew up in New York. I'm a pretty street wise, tough chick. I mean kinda stereotypical lesbian qualities I guess."
"You're a lesbian?!!!" I shriek.
"Um, yeah. Is that going to be a problem? I mean, I know you and your husband are really religious and probably frown upon that but..."
"No. I mean we don't care. I just didn't get that vibe from you. At all." I stutter.
"Most people don't pick me up on their gaydar. I'm a lipstick lesbian. I'm pretty girly girl and go for the more manly girls..."
"So slightly feminine men don't do it for you?" I slightly chuckle.
"Ewwww no! I mean...shit! That came out wrong." Her face turned red as a tomato.
"That's ok. I'm actually relieved. I must confess I kinda got it in my head you may eventually try to put the moves on Prince." I admitted.
"No, ma'am. Not unless Mr. Nelson gets a vagina, and butches up a bit." She laughs.
"Please, call him Prince. And I think there's zero chance of either of those things ever happening. Anyway, the reason I came out here was to tell you to just stay the night. But now that I know you wouldn't be interested in my husband, maybe he should just drive you to the hotel. But then again if paparazzi takes a picture of him taking some young girl to a hotel, it would just get the rumor mill started. Plus, no offense, but we don't know you real well yet and don't ever want to be a position for you to say something happened that didn't happen. I hope you understand. I mean I guess there's not going to be anything to stop you from saying something happens tonight if you stayed here. Lord this gets complicated." I huff.
"Yeah. That's why I prefer women. Less complications." She jokes. "But, Mrs...um Jensen, I have no ill intentions towards your family. I already adore all your children. I hope to earn your full trust soon. Maybe this can be a first step to that, and I understand about the media and will gladly stay here to avoid any negative press." 
"Ok. Thanks. I appreciate you understanding our unique situation. Let me show you to a guest room and then I'll bring you anything you may need." I led her down a hallway away from our room and also away from the children's rooms so she didn't feel like she had to check on them if one of them got up or something. "You are off the clock, so don't worry about the kids. We will drive you back to the hotel or call you a taxi tomorrow. We aren't morning people so no rush getting up."
"Oh, I'm a super early bird. I don't mind tending to the kids in the morning while y'all sleep in." She suggested politely.
"I may actually take you up on that. It's been a long night already and I know at least Reign will be up bright and early. I will need to feed him but then I would enjoy going back to sleep." I chuckle.
Once I got her all settled in, I made my way to our bedroom. "I have the best idea!" I exclaim.
"Oh yeah? Does it include anything with your gigantic tits! Geez baby, you're busting out of your dress. Don't they hurt?" Prince asks.
"Yeah, they're killing me. I'm about to go pump. But guess what?!"
"What?!" He rolls his eyes, knowing how I am with off the wall ideas most of the time.
"We can get Sarah to drive Devon to class in the mornings when school starts!" I raise my hand up, offering him a high five.
He raises his up, but instead of slapping my hand, he thumps my forehead with his palm. "Sarah? The girl you are afraid is going to seduce me tonight? How did we go from that to her driving Devon to school?" He looked beyond confused.
"Oh, well she's not a threat. She's gay!" I smile.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! What?!" He exclaims.
"Yeah, so I'm way over that. She's never going to be into you." I laugh. "So, she said she is a morning person and...."
"Wait! Back up! You say she's not a threat. But she still could be. What if she wants you?!" His eyes had a glimmer that I couldn't distinguish from jealousy or intrigue.
"No! She said she likes butchy girls." I explain.
"Damn." He huffs.
"Babe! Seriously?! You would want to see me with a woman?!"
"Is that a real question?!" He chuckles.
"Prince!" I start to get slightly offended.
"Oh, I'm just teasing! I mean sure that would be a turn on if we weren't married with kids and I could not be extremely jealous. But no, Jensen, I wouldn't want to see you with a woman. Now, having a woman lust over you might be kinda hot since it wouldn't be a threat. Too bad you aren't a little manly." He sighs.
"Did you really just say that!" I chuckled.
"That's not what I meant." He defended himself. "Anyway I think Sarah's gonna have to go."
"I told her to just spend the night. I explained to her about...."
"No, I mean like fired." Prince interrupts.
"What?! Why?! Bc she's gay?! Ok, now that may really land us a lawsuit. What's your deal? You've had gay friends. Wendy and Lisa for Pete's sake!" I shriek.
"Well they weren't my children's caregiver." He objects. "You never want men around the kids bc you get pedophile vibes. So why can't I not want a gay woman around them, especially my little girls?"
"Bc you think she's going to molest them?"
"I don't know. Maybe..."
"She's gay, Prince. Not a pedophile. Big difference! Geez how can someone who is basically a gay icon be so narrow minded and ill informed on gay people."
"I didn't ask to be a gay icon first of all. I'm not gay and never have been. I don't know that I think she's going to touch our daughters. But she may influence them..."
"Again, gay people don't try to turn other people, or kids, gay." I roll my eyes at his ignorance.
"I didn't say like recruit them. I just don't know if I want to expose our kids to that lifestyle at this age. It's going to totally confuse them if she has a girlfriend or whatever." He explains.
"I highly doubt they would ever even know..."
"Yes they would. If she basically starts taking on more and more nanny roles. We always involve our employees' families for parties or even vacations or tours. Don't act like her personal life wouldn't eventually spill over." He retorts.
"Ok, yeah, you're probably right. If she has a steady girlfriend, I guess the kids would eventually know about it. But, baby, we can't keep them in a bubble. Devon's about to go to school. There's a high possibility someone there has two mommies or two daddies. It's the world we live in. We can't fire her for being gay. It's just not right." I plead.
"No, we probably can't bc she will sue us for discrimination. But I can't lie and act like it doesn't make me uneasy." He admits.
"Well you're just going to have to get over it. If she makes you uneasy for other reasons that involve how she treats the children, that's another thing. But don't be going around looking for something now just so you can have a reason to fire her." I demand.
"And by the way, I didn't know Wendy and Lisa were gay right off the bat. Hell, I fucked Lisa before Wendy came along...."
"Excuse me?!" I spat.
"That's right. So don't get too comfortable with Sarah. Apparently even lesbians can't resist me." He smirks before throwing the covers back and flopping into bed, shutting off the lamp and leaving me in the dark.