30. Capri
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Overturning Wink’s conviction was my first order of business and Devon signed right on the dotted line. Me and Aimee stood outside the prison along with Cappy, Capella, and Quameer. She was so nervous that she couldn’t stand still.
I watched as she checked her phone, then moved and then checked her phone again. She was nervous seeing her father. He had been locked up since she was younger so she didn’t have many memories with him.
This was a second chance for Aimee to have her father in her life. When Cappy asked me to look over his case, I promised I wouldn’t stop until he was free. Morgan had gotten away with sending innocent men away, and now that he was gone it was time to open the gates and start allowing them out.
The news crew was over there waiting for me to make a statement. The DA’s office was going over so many cases where Morgan and Judge Tanner had put innocent men away. It was time for me to undo all the wrong that he had done. I lost a brother for fifteen years, and I was more determined than ever to right the wrongs that had been done in the justice system.
“I don’t know how I could ever thank you for this, Capri.” Aimee looked at me with tears in her eyes.
“We’re family… you don’t have to thank me.” I hugged her.
Even with me being on maternity leave, I wasn’t going to step back until I handled this. This wasn’t something that I could sit back and wait on. Wink deserved to be out and free years ago. He had spent years behind bars because of an evil man that hated black men, but loved their women.
I watched as Brian spoke to the cameras and I fixed myself and walked over there to add something so I could get home to my baby. My mother had her, and I couldn’t wait to get back to her and smell her scent.
Motherhood was an interesting hood. It was hard, and I was giving more grace to those who had experienced it before me. My hormones were still all over the place, and my hair was falling out from postpartum hair loss. The weight wasn’t moving anywhere, and my husband was fine with it. If it was up to him, we would have been having sex the third night that Rayce was home.
“I’ll hand it over to District Attorney Fern,” Brian said, and I stood behind the podium that they had set up.
“What Vincent Morgan and Allen Tanner did was horrible. They locked innocent men away and ruined their lives. Took them away from their families and deprived them of having a life. When I took my oath, I promised to undo all the wrong that has been done and I’ve stuck to my word. No stone will be left unturned… thank you.”
Meer and Cappy saluted me as I stepped away to talk to a few people. The gates opened and the men filed out, some with belongings and others with empty hands. Wink made his way out of those gates with a slight limp.
He was dressed down in a jogging suit that Aimee had brought up for him to leave here with. She held onto Capella before she ran to her father and hugged him tightly. He wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her on the head while squeezing her.
My eyes were misty as I witnessed her being loved by a parent that truly loved her. Wink, even behind bars, cared about the wellbeing of his daughter. More than Aimee’s mother ever did. I watched as Capella looked at his wife and smiled.
The two of them were still taking it slow, and Capella was actually courting Aimee. She wanted him to date her, and prove he wanted this, and my boy was doing it. He stopped drinking and started back taking his medicine, while working out with his father again.
He had strayed from converting, but he was back having those conversations with his father. Capella was in therapy and he was working on his own trauma right along with Aimee. They were both working on themselves so they could be one, and be better than ever.
Quasim and Blair weren’t together, and they weren’t as close as they were in Italy. Quasim distanced himself from Blair because he was scared. He wanted to love her and got the taste of what came with loving a woman like Blair, and I think that scared him. I had faith that the both of them would find their way to each other. More than anything I wanted them both to end up together. They both deserved it.
Blair’s studio was doing wonders and the girlies were packing out her classes or flying her to them. My girl was traveling and doing the thing that she wanted to do. She had hired another person to run the studio when she had to travel. Blair showed me that nothing could slow you down unless you allow it to.
Me and my mother’s relationship was so much better. As a new mother, I needed my mother and was glad we were able to fix things. I was tired of all the soup she was still pouring down my throat, but appreciated that she showed up for me. There is so much that I may not ever understand about my mother, but I didn’t need to understand her to love her.
Brandi was focusing on being a mother and a better person while working. She sent me a beautiful pink basket for Rayce when she was born. She tried to be nice, but I couldn’t forget all the shady shit she did before she needed us.
Before I saved her life.
I’d never regret having Meer spare her life, but that didn’t mean I was about to be cool with her. She needed to heal and realize that she had to tell her father no. The reason her life turned out the way that it did was because she allowed her father to continue to run her life. She married Martin who turned out to be a liar. The man was so deep into debt that she was lucky his ass was killed. His entire life was a damn lie and she was better off without him.
Naheim and Janay were dating and I was happy for him. She seemed like a good fit for him, and she wasn’t about to let him play in her face. Unlike me, she seemed like she might punch that nigga in the throat. They were taking things slow and not rushing it because they both had sons. I had completely moved on and was happy that Naheim could move on and find love with a woman that would check his fucking jaw if he played games with her.
Cappadonna and Alaia were content with having Promise and the twins. My niece was bad as hell, and she didn’t hesitate to slap someone. Alaia was constantly teaching her not to hit, meanwhile her daddy was over there encouraging it. Don and Captain were getting so big, and it was crazy how much they looked like Capella and Rory. It was clear all the Delgato women were just ovens because the babies never came out looking like them, just those big headed Delgato men.
Capone and Erin were discussing adding one more baby, but Erin wanted to go to Bali before she sat down for nine more months. Meer was in my ear talking about another one and I wasn’t hearing nothing he had to say. Blair’s last treatment was coming up, and we planned to be outside. I was straight leaving that baby with her daddy and screaming ‘fuck my baby daddy’ although I loved him very much.
Meer sat me down for nine months and it was time for Big Mama to link with her girls and have his ass in the house. I missed getting on my bike and couldn’t wait for summer to come so me and my girls could turn up all summer long.
Corleon, Skyler, and Jeffie were still figuring things out while dating. I didn’t know if they were together or not. I knew that he wasn’t letting up on either of them, and I was here for it. I loved both Jeffie and Skyler, so I didn’t mind having them as sisters-in-law and Estella as a niece.
I walked over toward where Meer was and he held his arms out and I hugged him. “Proud of you, Suga.”
“Thank you, Meer Cat… can we go home?”
He kissed me on the lips. “You missing my twin already?”
As much as I talked about the Delgato women only being the oven, that was exactly what I had been for Quameer Inferno. Rayce Ann Inferno was her father’s twin, and I was pissed. Thought I would have me a little twin since Ryder was his twin as well.
Now I had triplets in the house and pretty soon they would have my baby speaking Portuguese too.
“You too hype. The next one is gonna be my twin.”
He raised his eyebrow. “Oh yeah? You gonna give me another one… I remember you screaming never again while in labor.”
“Which is very true… let me enjoy my summer and work and then you can sit me down again.” He kissed me on the lips and grabbed my ass.
“I love you so much, Suga.”
I kissed my husband and looked into his eyes. “I love you so much, Meer.”
Quameer Inferno was my soulmate in every way. He showed me who I was, reminded me who I was, and met me where I was. He loved me when it was hard for me to even love myself. This man showed me that I was capable of love, and had shown me it every step of the way. If stepping behind your woman had a picture, it would be Quameer. He has held me down since the day I got on the back of his bike and has never let up. I used to say in a perfect world my marriage to Naheim would have worked and I wouldn’t have ended up divorced.
I realized that in my perfect world, that I was always supposed to be with Quameer. He was my forever, and in our perfect world, I was Capri Inferno.
The End
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