I wake up in the guest bedroom when I feel like someone is staring at me. I open my eyes to the sparkling crystal blue eyes of Stephany as she stares at me from where she lies next to me in the bed. “YaYa”, she sings to me when she sees I’m awake, making me laugh. “Morning princess! Breakfast?” I asked her. She sighs, “I want mama”! “Let’s eat, then we can wake her, okay?” I said to her. She nods! “We also have some guests in the living room so we need to be quiet this morning, okay”? “Bien” (okay), she says, making me chuckle. We go to the kitchen, and I give her cereal with lactaid then sit with her at the table while she eats it. Amory stumbles into the dining room a short time later and says, “why are they on the couch”? “Because Mikey and Meme are in the baby’s room, while Brenda and Danny are in Spin’s”, I tell her. I see the wheels of her brain turning. “So where did Gabby sleep last night?”, she asks. “With me”, I tell her as
Spencer is released from the hospital after two days, with Amory taking it upon herself to play the part of a devoted wife and cater to his nonsense as he recovers. I take advantage of the situation too, since Spencer is confined to the couch in the living room at night, I climb into bed with Amory! Amory uses the time we are stuck upstate to actually get shit done. Amazing what she accomplished in two weeks! First, she actually gets Spencer to agree to her contract terms. Then she gets a health plan for his employees and gets everyone enrolled. From there, she moves on to getting all of the residents of the apartment complex on leases. She hires a landscaper to maintain the housing complex and two houses, interviews mechanics, and staffing for the laundromat. Amory even manages to get all of the documentation recorded for Motor Hart’s and Custom Hart’s, as well as the apartment complex. She goes through each document of every box one by one. Amory enters each documen
Watermelon! Cucumber! Cantelope! Honey Dew! The smell of Amory lingers in the air around me, yet I’m in my bed naked, so her smell momentarily confuses me until I hear my housekeeper Tia calling for me. Amory sighs in her sleep, rubbing her face into my chest. Last night snaps back into memory as I hear Tia approaching, so I pull the sheets over us before she opens the door. “Lo siento mucho, no pensé que estabas aquí cuando no respondiste. Volveré más tarde”, (I’m so sorry, I didn’t think you were here when you didn’t answer. I’ll come back later) she says. “Está bien, Tia, solo comienza en una habitación diferente”, (It’s fine Tia, just start in a different room) I tell her as I sit up in the bed, causing the sheet to slide down to my waist and uncovering Amory’s head. Tia startles when she sees Amory in the bed next to me, having never seen anyone else in my apartment other than me! Tia quickly glances back and forth between Amory and the picture of us and her dau
I wake up when what feels like a warm tongue is licking from my neck to my lips, and ends with a soft peck. I open my eyes as I release a moan, Amory is trying to stifle her laughter. I pull her down on top of me but she brings her finger to her lips urging me to be quiet. I finally look around the room to see we are still in the lake house living room with everyone asleep around us. Amory climbs off of me and pulls me to follow her off the sofa. We walk quietly out of the front door before she tosses my car keys to me. Obviously, she has something planned, she’s never up this early in the morning! She has me drive a short distance down the road before pulling back off of it, and onto a dirt path that leads down to the waterfront where I park. When she gets out of the car, she starts stripping down before climbing into the water in her underwear. Once she resurfaces I look at her confused, “what are you doing, mi Amor” (mi love)? “Waiting for you to come ravish m
The sun is beaming in my face, but I’m so cozy as the hammock swings gently in the morning breeze. Amory is still asleep in my arms while I rub her back. She sighs before she rubs her face into my chest and inhales deeply. This is like her signal she’s about to wake up but it still makes me laugh, even after three years because it’s just that cute! My phone vibrates in my pocket disturbing her, as I wedge my hand between the two of us to grab it. It’s a message from Charlene who rarely ever texts me. She’s looking for Amory and says she’s been trying to reach her since Friday. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen Amory’s phone at all this weekend! “Amory, where’s your phone?” I ask her. She shrugs before she says, “in my room probably. Why”? “Charlene has been tryna reach you”, I tell her but she just sighs lazily. “She wants an approval to do a duet theme night for karaoke this week”. “Like couples karaoke?”, she questions, and I nod at her. “I guess th
This morning I hear Amory vomiting from her bathroom since her bedroom door has been left open. She’s due to appear in court today and her anxiety is simply sweltering over. As if Stephany can sense her mother’s tension, she clings to me like a leech unless in her car seat. She won’t even allow her mother to carry her, clearly, she is still my princess even with Spencer in her life! Rich and I leave our guns in my car before we walk into the same courthouse as the last time. Amory looks pale, and she is visibly shaken as her case is called forward. We’re all directed to the plaintiff's stand as Spencer is directed to the defendant's stand. Neither one of them has looked at each other since we’ve left the lake house! When the judge walks to the bench she says, “Ms. Williams, nice to finally meet you! Please explain to me what on Earth is going on here and why this divorce case now has a paternity request attached to it”. Amory inhales sharply then says, “yes, your
I am understandably pissed the fuck off since Amory’s last date with Spencer. She brings me out to the spot by the lake we’d snuck off to a few times, only to tell me they had sex the night before. I’m disgusted, but the fact that she admits to being somewhat drunk when it happened really bothers me… Like he took advantage of her and she doesn’t even acknowledge that part! After three days of me silently hovering around her, she reaches her breaking point and corners me in the kitchen. I suggest we put some distance between us and Spencer, and she immediately agrees. So it’s our first visit back to my mother’s since we’ve made the move upstate! Amory is fatigued from just the ride down and is asleep when we arrive. I carry her to our bedroom and let her nap it off a little, while I tend to Stephany. After getting my princess settled with my niece in the living room, I head to the kitchen to sit with my mother as she cooks, making sure I can see my princess from where
Amory’s period is a day late and the funny shit is she doesn’t even notice, and if she does she’s keeping it to herself. However, she does emphasize to me how tired she feels, so on Friday night when she wants to go down to the club I’m surprised. I know better than to tell her no though, but I do convince her to wear shoes with a smaller heel. Melanie sits with Stephany like she used to, while Amory and I head down to the club and right on to the dance floor. The staff move around us and clearly are working to impress her during this surprise drop-in, but she’s only here to have fun!Some of the regular patrons who have noticed our absence from the club approach us, particularly those who attend the karaoke nights. That crazed woman who used to try feeling up on me all of the time is here too, but she keeps her distance. Likely since Amory clings to my chest while in my arms, or maybe because we’ve openly made out on the dance floor tonight, or it could be the picture of us kissing on