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- Authors: Nicole Jacquelyn
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Abraham
Fourteen years later
You have five grandbabies, Mom. Pretend a couple of those are mine,”
I said with a kiss to the side of my mom’s head.
“It doesn’t work that way,” she said in frustration, pinching me lightly on
the side as she moved past me into the kitchen.
We’d been having the same conversation for the past five years, and my
answer had never changed. I didn’t want kids. It’s not like I didn’t love my
nieces and nephews—I did. I just didn’t want the responsibility of having
one of my own. I was happy being the uncle who bought cool-as-hell
Christmas presents and took the kids fishing when I felt like it—then
sending them home with their parents.
“Why do you keep asking?” a voice called out from the back door,
making my jaw clench. “You know Bram will never love anyone as much
as he loves himself.”
“Anita,” Mom scolded with a sour look.
“Interesting, coming from you,” I murmured, bracing myself as I
glanced at the slender woman walking into the room.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Anita asked, dropping a bag of
groceries hard on the table.
“Don’t see any kids pulling on your skirts,” I snapped back.
Anita’s eyes grew wide with hurt for only a moment. “I’m not wearing a
skirt,” she hissed stupidly, spinning on her heel and almost running out of
the kitchen.
I watched her leave, then glanced at my mom in confusion. What the
fuck?
“Christ, Abraham,” my mom said, shaking her head as she pushed past
me. “I don’t understand why the two of you can’t just ignore each other.”
I stood there like an idiot for a minute, then followed them toward the
living room, stopping just on the other side of the wall as I heard my mom’s
voice.
“You okay?” Mom asked.
A watery chuckle answered her.
“You know he was just—”
“I don’t expect anything less, Mom. I’m fine,” Anita choked out. I
leaned hard against the wall and closed my eyes. Shit. I wasn’t sure what
was wrong, but I knew she’d been crying. Her voice was normally husky—
I’d pointed out more than once that she’d make a good phone sex operator
—but it was magnified by a thousand as she brushed off my mom.
“If you would—” my mom said, her words cutting off as Ani spoke.
“I’m fine. Promise.”
Before I could move from my spot, Anita was stepping out of the living
room, and the front door was opening wide to show my cousin Trevor
slipping inside.
“Trev!” Anita yelled, running toward him.
“Hey,” he said on a grunt as Ani jumped at him, wrapping her arms
around his neck and her legs around his waist.
My stomach twisted.
“What’s wrong? You been crying?” he asked softly as he wrapped his
arms around her.
Ani’s voice was muffled when she answered him, so I couldn’t hear what
she was saying, but the second his hand started to run soothingly up and
down her back I’d had enough. We were in my parents’ entryway for
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