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“Damn! Let me get a dollar,” Draco joked. “Shit, I might need more than that if my sperm keep putting twins in my wife.” Tae was pregnant with their second set of twins.

Mont covered his ears. The other men on the porch faces displayed their distaste for his comment. “No one wants to hear that shit.”

Jacobia rolled her eyes. “Shut up, Mont. Guess what? All of us fuck.”

There was a mass exodus of the male cousins from the deck. The women kicked the other men off the deck, too, so the women could have their own time. Lark felt blessed to have aligned herself and her family to a large, loyal, loving family. Justin and Chelle offered Chance and Lark land in Christianson Circle to build a home. Although they declined, Mama Gloria accepted the offer in their stead.

Jacobia had never known anything except family love. It surrounded her like a tight hug, and she loved it. That was all that filled the backyard right now—love, family, light. She glanced at her husband who sat with the rest of the men in an outside seating area. Joston, Chelly, and Jerimiah were the brightest lights in her life. It was a light that she could have missed because of her fear. Fear of what, she still had no real idea.

She didn’t have a tragic relationship history, so she couldn’t say that hurt was a fear. Stubbornness had to be the answer. She shook her head at her own thoughts.

“What you over there thinking about?” Galiana asked before she took a sip of her drink. Tana made the cocktails, so everyone made sure they took it easy.

Jacobia sighed, then answered. “I’m thinking about how I could have missed out on the love of my life because of my stubbornness. We spent years in this deep sexual relationship, taking every attempt to make each other tap out, but I was actively tapping out of love.”

The girls knew about her past alternate lifestyle. She told most of them while she was pregnant with Chelly. Jacobia considered that lifestyle a part of her past because she didn’t need it anymore. Yes, it was fun and freeing, but being the wife of Joston Jerimiah Broughton was complete freedom.

Lark smiled at her best friend. She was proud of how far she had come in reference to her relationship mindset. She knew that Jacobia would have been devastated if Joston had truly moved on. “Well, best friend, I thank God that you got yourself together enough to accept what was supposed to be. Tapping out is fun, but it’s the tap in that’s really worth it.”