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Mase laughed. “Nigga, I’m about to be your stepdaddy. You already know I’ma be on your ass when I need to.”

“Stop all that gah damn cussing around my babies,” GiGi fussed.

“Gee, you the main one cussing, though,” Tae commented.

“Mind your black ass business, Jontae!”

Joni had been watching the exchange, and once everybody finished laughing, he walked over to Mase.

“Bruh, I’m happy for y’all,” he told him, dapping him up. “But you know that’s my sister and my son. I’m trusting you with both of them.”

Mase nodded, meeting his eyes.

“You ain’t gotta worry about that, Khaotic. I love Rah, and AJ know I got him too,” he assured him.

“That’s all I needed to hear,” Joni replied, pulling him into a quick hug.

Tae shook his head from across the room.

“Man, can we eat now? Y’all niggas act like y’all periods about to start and shit,” Tae complained.

“Boy, if you’on get somewhere and shut the hell up sometimes,” Gee fussed, making everybody laugh.

We finally sat down to eat, and naturally, everybody had questions about the wedding. I told them we hadn’t discussed dates or anything else yet, and I wasn’t interested in planning it that afternoon.

I wanted to enjoy being engaged first.

Mase reached beneath the table and took my hand, giving it a gentle squeeze. I looked over at him and smiled before turning my attention back to my family.

My son was happy… everybody had welcomed our engagement, and I was sitting beside the man I was going to marry.

I couldn’t have asked for a better weekend.

Chapter Twenty-Four

Tae

Iknew something was up when Gabi came home from the shop and went straight upstairs with her phone pressed against her ear. She usually stopped to speak to me first, but today she barely acknowledged I was sitting in the living room.

I went back to watching television until she came downstairs about twenty minutes later. She’d changed, and she had a large envelope in her hand.

“What’s that?” I asked, sitting up.

“My divorce decree,” she announced, smiling. “It’s final.”

“For real?” I questioned, getting off the couch.

“Yep. My attorney just called. Everything’s been finalized.”

I took the papers and looked them over. I didn’t understand half that legal shit, but I knew enough to see that Gabriana was officially divorced from Kentrell.

“Man, why the fuck you ain’t tell me when you walked in?” I questioned.

“Because I was still talking to my attorney, and I wanted to make sure everything was finished,” she explained.

I put the papers down and grabbed her around the waist, lifting her off the floor.

“Tae!” she squealed, laughing as I kissed her. “Put me down!”