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A second later, my phone rings.
I roll out of bed to answer it in the bathroom. “Good morning, Mrs. Sazuki.”
“Dare,” she sounds bright and chirpy, “given my sister did not fly back on the jet crying and plotting your imminent demise, I can assume she’s with you and you’re back together?”
“Yes, she is and yes we are,” I confirm.
“Well, that means you can drop the ‘Mrs. Sazuki’ crap. You’re family now. Trapped really. Guard your loins.”
My loins are very much unguarded at the moment, but I fear that’s a little too much to share with my sister-in-law. “Noted.”
I hear shuffling in the background of the call and some kind of mumbling.
“Ryo is asking if you plan on marrying my sister anytime soon. He wants to know how distracted I’ll be in the next few months.”
I laugh. “Yes, I want to propose soon. I’d like to speak to your father. Get his blessing. Is that something you can help me arrange?”
“A meeting? Yes. A blessing… Dad’s been itching to talk to you since he found out about all this.”
That sounds ominous.
“Oh it’s not as bad as it sounds,” Dejonae says laughingly. “Even Sazuki got dad to turn on the waterworks. He’s a big old softie. Especially if he trusts you’ll take care of his girls.”
“I get the feeling he might be a bit more protective of Yaya.”
“You’re not wrong,” she says thoughtfully. “My sister might act tough, but she’s got dad’s marshmallow heart.”
That she does. It’s why I was so drawn to her when we first met.
“I know how well you’ve been treating her while you were ‘fake dating’,” Dejonae adds. “I hope that doesn’t change now that you’re dating for real.”
“It will change. But for the better.” I no longer have to hold myself back and I look forward to that freedom.
“Where is Yaya now? She hasn’t responded to my texts.”
“She’s… tired.”
“Oh.Oh.Well, I’ll let you get back to, um, ‘it’.” Dejonae signs off after an awkward goodbye.
I listen to the dial tone ring in my ear and chuckle. Yaya will be inundated with questions from her sister later. Perhaps I should give her a warning.
Since I’m already in the bathroom, I take a shower and get dressed. Next, I call Mosely.
“What’s on our agenda for the day, sir? More meetings?”
“No, I have something even more important to do.”
“A call with Cullen Tech?”
“A date with my girlfriend.”
“Ah.”
“You can complete the rest of our itinerary alone, Mosely.”
“Yes, sir!”
I laugh at how happy he sounds. “Were things that dire?”
