St. Patty's Baby!

Author:Sienna Mynx & Rie Langdon [Mynx, Sienna & Langdon, Rie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Romance, Contemporary, Multicultural, Romantic Comedy, Multicultural & Interracial
Amazon: B004RYW26K
Publisher: The Divas Pen LLC
Published: 2011-03-12T05:00:00+00:00

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“We can call it a day. Everything cool?”

He positions the last pallet and shuts the doors to the cool room. Been avoiding me since Sylvia left, and I pretty much know why. My man got it wrong.

That broad is no threat to my lady, and that flirt she threw my way didn’t mean shit to me. Still, I think I ought to clarify. Set the record straight.

“Everthin’ cool, boss. As it should be.”

“Not quite,” I answer, walking through, cutting off his pass. “Need to holla at you. Hold up.” I gesture for his return.

“Sure… sure.” Alejandro steps back, looks away, but peeps me from the corner of his eye as he snatches off one work glove, then the other.

“You know how much my lady means to me.”

“Si, si… I know.”

“Earlier I had a visitor.”

“Yeah.” Alejandro shrugged it off, still avoiding my eyes. “None of my business.”

“She’s someone I knew from back in the day, back before I found my Tia, ya dig? But it ain’t deep, and I’d never disrespect my wife. Check it, there’s one woman that you’ll put it on the line for. One shot at that kind of love. Ain’t a honey out there bad enough to take me from mine. Feel me?”

“Cool.”

He gives me a fist pound in agreement. I can see the flash of relief in his eyes.

We’ve been through a lot. Alejandro was the other one that convinced me to take a chance on my heart and propose to Tia when she and I were just three months into our dating thing. And I was walking around here with my nose wide open, calling her every five minutes just to hear her on the line. Between him and Abel, I finally gave into my heart’s wish. Yeah, he knows what it took for me to take that leap. He also knows men like us can fuck it up in a flash. Good looking out.

Alejandro’s my man. One of the few men I’d trust with my business and my back. Never my woman, I’ll never trust any man other than blood, hers or mine, with such a precious flower.

He spent six years in the pen for drug trafficking. He’s a reformed gang banger, street hustler, with tats that reach from his neck to pelvis. Each knuckle displays a letter to his gang name, got two black tattooed tears under his left eye for his first kill. One look and you’d lock your door or clutch your purse. Hell, several customers have failed miserably to cover their prejudice. Pisses me off, because that’s life, you always judge what you see. And Alejandro is the hardest-working ex-con I’ve had on the payroll. Even Moms, God rest her soul, liked the idea of giving him a try.

One of the reasons why I love my lady: when she gave me a chance, she gave my crew a chance. Had no problem with him standing up for me in the wedding. Sits here and talks Spanish with him. On Saturdays she hangs around the shop, talking both our ears off and getting in the way.

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