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to Easy Like Sundae Morning?”
    “Heck yeah. In fact, Beanie is riding with me.”
    “You got room for one more? Ellis’ car is outta commission and he needs a lift.”
    Devorah briefly hesitated before answering. “Sure.”
    I flashed a brief grin before walking in her direction.
    “Well, well, well, we seem to keep finding ourselves thrown together don’t we, Little Bee?”

“Soooooooo…?” Cadence looked at me expectantly.
    I remained stone - faced, features locked into a grimace.
    “You can’t not talk to me forever, Bee, so cut the shit. You agreed to this brunch date so you can’t be that upset.”
     
    “I agreed to come because this is my favorite restaurant and you’re paying. But fuck you. You’re still not off the hook.”
     
    Cadence called yesterday and asked me to meet her at Cluck for brunch. She knew I was powerless to resist the combo of two of my favorite things, fried chicken and bottomless mimosas, so I was at her mercy. I didn’t, however, have to make nice. I was still pissed at her for dropping the dime to Ellis about where I was at during my staycation. She was supposed to be on my side, dammit! Instead she gavehim the cheat codes . It had been a few weeks since Ellis popped up at the hotel thanks to Cadence tipping him off.  Prior to that I hadn’t seen him in eight days. I’d been prepared to see him at SophieBean’s recital and pretend like whatever we had been doing for the past six months had finally come to an end. Then Cadence just had to open her big mouth and somehow I ended up with my ankles near my ears by the night’s end. Then he pulled that broken car shit at the recital and we ended up spending that night together as well. A slight shudder traveled through my body as I remembered that night Cadence sent him to me.
     
    Something felt different about the way Ellis touched me. Each graze of his hand on my skin felt like he was trying to tell me something. Our normal frenetic sex was lazy and languid, peppered with long kisses and sweet caresses. I’d chalked it up to our slightly inebriated state, but for him to then double down and drop the bomb that he wasn’t sleeping with anyone else in the sober light of day? That shit just left me in a whole whirl of confusion. I mean I was ecstatic that my chance of catching an STD was lessened, but I didn’t know what to make of these quasi-monogamous relationship traits Ellis was displaying.
     
    “Is that any way to talk to the mother of your future goddaughter slash babyniece?”
     
    “You don’t even know you’re having a girl.”
     
    “Oh, I know all right. Call it a mother’s intuition. I feel it in my shundo, just like I feel you and Ellis should cut the bullshit and get together for real.”
     
    “So be sure to let Geoff know he’s getting a junior because your mother’s intuition is broken. Irreparable, even…”
     
    “Actually, it isn’t Ellis that needs to cut the bull. He made his intentions clear. So, what’s the holdup, Bee?”
     
    “Made his intentions clear to whom exactly?”
     
    “You, heffa! Let’s not play this game,” Cadence said, while reaching for the bottle to refill her water glass.
     
    I opened my mouth to respond, but I honestly didn’t know what to say. I could lie and say I didn’t know his intentions, but I knew. This man who I’d longed for over half of my adult life was sitting here gift wrapped for me, but I couldn’t seem to rip that paper to shreds. I was perfectly fine with things being the way that they initially started, the occasional booty call to sate a need. But somewhere along the line, those “WYD?” calls and texts turned into “just wanted to hear your voice” and “I miss you” and unscheduled drop by visits.
     
    But this was Ellis. The man who I’d witnessed take two women on a date on the same night, at the same restaurant. The man who said he’d never settle down and get married. The man who was known on our college campus as BC…Black