“Damn.” He pulled his phone out. “Do you mind? Nobody will see. It’s just for me.”
“That’s fine.” I really didn’t care who saw it. I was a mother feeding her baby, and if anyone had a problem with it, they could go to hell. Granted, when we were in public, I covered up, but I didn’t knock the women who didn’t. It was a part of life.
“I don’t think you know how sexy you look right now.” Genesis licked his lips, then snapped a couple of pictures. “It always amazed me how women could feed babies from their breasts. And to see you feed ours.” He visibly shivered. “It’s fucking amazing.” His eyes widened. “I probably need to start watching what I say.”
I giggled and shifted Paris.
“Yes. She’s like a little sponge, and you don’t want her to start repeating what you say.”
“You’re right. I’ll work on it.”
“Good.”
He got up from the floor, then sat next to me. His gaze was on Paris, and I could see and feel the love he had for her already.
Genesis’s phone went off, and it seemed like it was hard for him to take his eyes off Paris and me. I looked down at her, and her eyes were on Genesis. She took to him so easily, it was like she already knew who he was.
For a minute he just stared at his phone’s screen. I heard my phone go off at the same time his did, but I figured it wasn’t anything important.
After some time passed, he put the phone back in his pocket and smiled.
“That was the paternity results. It says that I’m the father. I knew that already, but you know.”
I placed my hand on his leg. “I get it.”
“For the record, I wasn’t going anywhere regardless of what it said. I already love her,” he said as he ran his fingers through her hair.
“That’s not something we have to worry about.”
When Paris was done, she went right on over to Genesis and got in his lap.
I looked at Paris and sucked my teeth. “Dang, just eat and run, huh?”
She looked at me, put her fingers in her mouth, then laid her head down.
Genesis laughed. “Princess said she got what she wanted.” He laughed again and rubbed Paris’s back. She started to doze off, so I turned the television on.
“I remember you said you were new to town that night. Was that true?”
“Yes, and no. I grew up here, left for school, stayed out there, then moved back to take the principal job at the school.”
“Oh, okay. Small world, ain’t it?”
“It is, but I’m glad.”
We turned to focus on the movie that played for a little bit.
Genesis put his arm around me and kissed the top of my head. We stayed that way for a while.
At some point, Paris woke up, so he played with her while I made us something for dinner. The three of us ate together, and Paris even tried something new and liked it. I wasn’t sureif it was because Genesis fed her, instead of me, but that didn’t matter.
When it was time for her bedtime routine, Genesis helped me, then he read a bedtime story to her while I showered and put on my pajamas.
Once Paris had fallen asleep, Genesis came down to the living room.
“She’s out like a light,” he said as he sat next to me.
“Yeah, she had a pretty busy day.”
