Page 84 of Spending Forever With You

“Baby, wait, I have— ” I gagged on my words. “Deke, I have to—” It happened again, this time Luke stared down at me with a tight expression of concern.

“Baby, what’s wrong?” Another gag came, with me closing my mouth as he hustled to undo the silk ties. Once my hands were free, I ran to the bathroom to empty my stomach. Luke was right behind me, holding my hair and rubbing my back.

“Damn, Hershey. I went too damn hard, I apologize. Are you good?”

I nodded as more came up. And yes, I was most definitely lying and blaming some type of liquor. I had his surprise planned and his big headed baby wasn’t about to ruin it.

Or so I thought.

“I didn’t know morning sickness could come at night too. I’m sorry, Hershey. I feel like this is my fault for real now. I’m so used to you calling yourself sneaking out of bed in the mornings to hide this part from me.” I sat up, wiping my mouth with tissue as I frowned at him, trying to continue to play it off.

My laugh was light. “What are you talking about, morning sickness? Deke, that’s for pregnant women.”

He huffed as he got up, holding his hand out for me so he could help.

“And now you don’t want to tell me what I already know? You stay hurting a nigga’s chest, Holls. I told you about the baby, why you acting as if I’m the crazy one?”

I made my way over to the sink to brush my teeth.

“Because this wasn’t how I wanted to tell you. I had this cute plan on our actual anniversary but of course your spawn has to ruin it.” I was off my feet in a mere seconds of finishing my sentence as Luke picked me up and spun me in the air as he shouted.

“Wooo, my muthafucking wife is having my baby! Hershey, you just made me the happiest man in the world, thank you. Ain’t shit ruined. I love you so much.” I giggled freely as he placed me on the countertop, stepping between my legs, taking my toothbrush out of my mouth, and replacing it with his lips on mine.

I broke our kiss long enough to spit the toothpaste out.

“Uht uht, unless you want me to throw up again, let me rinse please.” He laughed, showing all his teeth.

“Oh shit, my bad. Yeah, let me help you.” He reached for a cup so I could get some water. Once I was done, he was back to being all over me.

“Does this mean we’re having makeup sex now?”

“Only for this round, Hershey, then I have to get back to fucking the shit outta you. I’m happy now but I haven’t forgotten you were a bad girl,” he said as he scooted me closer to the edge then refilled me with his dick. Only this time, I held on, locking my arms around him as I buried my face in his neck, loving his scent and how calming it was while I accepted the deep, slow strokes this round.

“I love you too, Deke,” I moaned.

Luke leaned down, placing soft kisses on my shoulders. We had just finished his beatdown session to my pussy and were currently in the bathroom about to get in the shower. I stopped in the mirror to inspect the damage to my hair because I knew Luke had fucked Callie’s hard work up.

“So you gon’ tell me what went down or…”

I rolled my eyes, not even wanting to talk about it but knowing I had to.

“I mean, I’m sure you got all the details from Shep or Angie. Why do you need my side of the story when you already picked one to be on and clearly it’s not mine?” I shrugged as I went to push him off me, but of course, Luke wasn’t going for that. He quickly snatched me back into his embrace, locking me in as he wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me tight, biting my neck roughly, causing me to react to the pain.

“Ouch, Deke.” He grabbed my neck, pulling my head back to face his, pecking my lips nastily several times in the process.

“Because I asked, and you muthafucka right I chose a side, yours. Now tell me what happened, Holls.” I kissed my teeth, which only made Luke slap my ass.

“So, after we left the house, the girls and I went to Nawlins. Things were going good, ya know. And then out of nowhere, this man came stalking over to our table and questioning Angie. My natural reaction when I see some shit popping off with a celebrity or celebrity spouse, is to pull my phone out and hit record. Was I still going to run the piece?” I shrugged, because at that moment I’d thought about it. I wouldn’t lie about that part.

“But as the conversation went on, I realized who he was and how he was trying to move foul. I mean, Deke, he didn’t even want the baby, gave up his rights and all, but was popping big shit and literally trying to take Angie’s son out of her arms. I had to do something, and you know I can’t get physical because of your baby, what else was I supposed to do? The idea popped into my head so quickly. I wasn’t thinking too much about how bad exposing myself to her would be considering I was trying to help her. So I held up my phone and threatened to write a story on him. I thought I was doing a good deed…adjacent.”

“After you knowingly recorded a private conversation that was going to be used to hurt Angie and Shep, though.” Luke released a heavy ass breath. I watched him drag his hands down his face while I shrugged.

“Hurt or help? The story would finally stop people from talking about them.”

“You can’t talk about our friends, baby.”

“I know, Deke, and I wasn’t. Well, they weren’t on my radar at first. I mean, I had no plans to write a piece on them. It was given to me by my boss prior to all of this, and mind you, I’ve been stalling and doing extra shit because he won’t understand the new boundaries in place when it comes to them in my life. I still have a job to do though.”