Chapter Tiana #6
“No! Not to fight a bitch over a man. But I surely dragged that girl from hither to yon because she tried me. And she never would’ve been in my face if it weren’t for you!
” I was still pissed about that prissy bitch who approached me at my job trying to have a woman to woman conversation about Parker.
She thought cause she’d used her throat a few times that she’d marked her territory.
The slurs pissed me off but when she put her hand on me I tried to send that ho straight to hell.
And when the cops tried to arrest me, Parker came in on the scene like Superman with his entire security team ready to fuck shit up.
I guess he’s gotta see the crazy side of Tay Tay now.
“You told me that you beat her ass for disrespect.” Why he thought it was a good idea to be throwing my words back up at me right now was beyond me. The fact that he no longer looked upset was also pissing me off. Just like a man to feel better once he’s offloaded his emotions onto you.
“I lied!” My eyes were filling with tears because I couldn’t believe that the best relationship I’d ever had, no matter how surprising the partner was, was ending like this. Just out of the blue with no reason.
“Why you do it then, Princess?” He took a step toward me and took my hand and even though I should’ve pulled back my body was still too used to the magnetism that existed between us.
“Because wasn’t nan bitch gone run up on me trying to claim what’s mine.”
“I’m yours, Tiana?” Parker’s smile was soft and his eyes looked slightly glassy as he stared down at me.
I did a hard blink because I was not about to cry in front of him.
“You were. But now you’re being all weird and I guess you’re trying to leave me.
” I prided myself on being tough but fuck I thought this man was my soulmate.
The person I’d been dreaming about my entire life.
Yeah, the shell he came in was taken out of the oven a little soon when God was baking him, but I’d gotten over that because the added accessory pack that came with the man were just superb.
Got dammit, am I dissociating? The man is not a fucking GI Joe.
“I never want to leave you.” Parker’s softly stated intentions broke the ramblings in my brain and now I was focused back on him.
God why did he have to be such a beautiful man?
Why couldn’t he be ugly with a small dick so I could talk shit about him with Ray while I drowned my sorrows in Chunky Monkey and Half-baked?
“Then what’s this about?”
“This is about me being so overwhelmed with the amount of love I have for you I don’t know how to express it.”
My brain froze and all thoughts seemed to evaporate instantly. It felt like my last thought was echoing in the cavern that had been my mind.
“Wait…what?” I knew my confusion was clear on my face but his Clark Kent-looking ass was smiling now.
“This is me, asking you a woman who is so far out of my league I wonder why you bother dealing with me at all—”
“—You’re handsome as sin, my people vouched for you and over the last two years you’ve shown me that their loyalty to you was well earned and well deserved.” That interruption happened so fast it couldn’t have been nothing but the Lord. And it was the truth so…
“Nothing about my money or my dick, Tay?” His smile shifted to an arrogant smirk and I wasn’t going to lie on a dick I was clearly going to continue to have access to. Although it could give him a little more motivation…
“I mean that money doesn’t mean shit but Pinkie is definitely a bonus I didn’t expect.
” Can’t lie; I was worried like hell when we first started fooling around.
I just knew I was going to have to get creative but this man showed me that he wasn’t just well-versed in how to make a team successful.
He set a goal and committed to it no matter what it was.
Crazy how this man had turned my ass every which way but loose and his dick was definitely a gift from the minorities in his bloodline for not being a piece of shit.
“Calling him Pinkie is crazy and even worse you got me doing it. But that’s just one of the reasons that you’re absolutely everything to me, baby.
The staid, boring life that seemed destined for me.
A wife I could only tolerate, kids that would grow up thinking they were better than other people despite how I would want them to be raised.
You’ve opened my eyes that life could be so much more than how I was living. ”
“Baby, you’re acting like you were slumming it in the trailer park.”
“When it comes to enjoying life then yeah I was. But then you brought me out. Made everything that people thought I had actually match my reality. I think I’ve smiled more in the last two years than I have my entire life. I’m happy and I owe all of that to you.”
His words were so sweet but then they gave me pause and I needed him to clarify one thing. “Are you calling me your magical negro?”
“Tiana…Jesus Christ, no!” He looked frustrated again before he dropped to one knee and for the second time in my entire life, my mind was blank.
“Wait, what are you doing? You’re too young for your knees to be giving out on you like this.”
“Princess Tiana, my knees didn’t give out but I swear my heart will if you don’t let me get this out.”
Wait… “Parker—”
He shook his head and continued on with what he’d planned to say.
“Love isn’t something that I was taught to look for in a partner.
I was taught to value only the superficial, which was against everything my soul craved.
What I feel for you is something that I know hasn’t existed in my bloodline for at least a hundred years.
I’ve always wanted to break generational curses and be a better man than the ones I grew up with and were related to.
And I succeeded in that financially and philanthropically.
But meeting you showed me that I could do more than that.
I could be a better partner, husband and one day father if given the chance.
” He pulled out a box that seemed too large to hold a ring, despite all his professions of love.
I swore if he had a friendship bracelet in this box I was going to cuss him out after he put it on. Cause I might be mad but I wasn’t dumb.
He held the box in his hand before he took mine and took a deep breath. “Tiana, will you marry me?”
My knees now felt like the ones that were going to give out. And when he flipped open the box and let me see what was inside I almost screamed.
“SHUT UP!”
My hands went to my face partly from embarrassment and even more so from shock.
I could see there was a reason the box was so damn big.
The ring inside the box was enormous. So large that I was sure a standard ring box wouldn’t have held it.
I didn’t know anything about diamonds besides the fact that Stew had given my cousin one that was absolutely stunning.
But this ring, even in the moonlight, sparkled as brightly as the stars above.
“Baby, don’t cry. I can handle anything else but you crying.” I didn’t even realize that I was crying but when I looked at him, he looked blurry and I knew it wasn’t because of my astigmatism.
“You want to marry me?”
His blurry form nodded and I cried harder. “Yes. I want to wake up every morning like I have since you’ve been spending the night. With a smile on my face and my dick nestled in between your booty.”
My head flew back as I cackled laughing thinking about the first time he ever said that word. “I’m so glad you were quick to break the habit of calling it a cock.” I gagged even saying that word cause it was so fucking gross.
“Baby, when you told me that I wouldn’t be allowed back inside of you calling it that, that word evaporated from my vocabulary.” He was being serious but I had to laugh at the memory of the moment.
Mid-stroke he’d said something about cumming on his cock and despite the euphoric state I’d been in, he immediately got taught a lesson in the quickest way to dry up a Black woman’s pussy.
Instead of getting mad he got down on his knees to get me right and that was probably the moment I knew I was a goner.
“And we stan a man who has no problem with taking direction.”
“Enough to marry him?” He seemed nervous to ask but I had to press him slightly.
“Are you sure?”
“Tay, I had the ring made. Not just made but I had them searching for almost eleven months for this diamond. I talked to your mother and father. I have a photographer out here witnessing the fact that you’ve got me on my knees begging—”
My brow arched thoughtfully, “I haven’t heard you be—”
“Please, baby. Please be my wife.” He didn’t give me a chance to say anything else, just took the diamond mountain he was trying to say was a ring and slid it on my finger. He didn’t hesitate and the ring slid on as smooth as butter, which let me know he’d planned this to a T.
I looked down at my hand and the ring’s facets were throwing out sparks despite it being nighttime. I went with my initial reaction and screamed so loud before giving him a kiss and then turning to the house.
“RACHELLE! MAMA! DADDY!” I went right through the same patio doors and stood in the space between the kitchen and the den.
“Tiana, why are you waking up my baby?” Stew was the first one stomping out of the kitchen and Rachelle was giving me the stank eye from the sofa.
Stew must’ve given him back to Ray so that he could finish cooking.
I didn’t bother to close the door that led to the backyard before I started waving my finger in the air and doing high kicks the way I had when I was in high school.
The Desperado Divas might have a new team member because I could definitely give them a run for their money right now.