Epilogue
Some Time Later . . .
Life had been amazing for the Brands. They were dominating in the pharmaceutical industry and the Black love lane.
After the magazine spread about their wedding and relationship, it put more eyes on them than they could have ever imagined.
MediGenix’s human resource and legal team now pushed the relationship they once thought would bring a negative light to the company.
It opened the company to a new interest from a different demographic of consumers which fattened the bottom line.
On top of their jobs as the CEO and president, Robert and Jubilae had been on a mini press tour.
Multiple news broadcasts, podcasts, and television shows had reached out.
The couple discussed whether they wanted to be interviewed.
They came up with the agreement that not only would they be paid by those who wanted to interview them, but the requestors would also have to donate a certain agreed-upon dollar amount to help underprivileged patients get access to the medications that they needed free of charge.
So far, they had raised over two million dollars in donations.
“DJ, you better put that down before GramPa gets you.” Jubilae reprimanded her almost one-year-old grandson. He was a busy bee, to say the least, ever since he started walking a few weeks ago. He gave everyone a run for their money.
Robert glanced at his grandson from his seat on the couch next to his wife. “Don’t tell his lil ass nothing, Pressie. When I toss his ass over the couch, he’s gonna know something.”
The nickname Pressie would never go away.
He tried not to use it in front of the children since they knew the origin of it.
It baffled the youngins that people over a certain age were still sexually active.
Jubilae found out for herself in her forties that her parents still did what they did when she went to their house unannounced.
That was a mistake that she never made again.
At the mention of the word toss, DJ rushed over to his ‘grampa.’ He was a rough little boy who liked to be tossed. Jubilae laughed. “See, now you have to since you told him that you would. You know that boy loves to be thrown in the air.”
Like she said, DJ lifted his hands and shouted up repeatedly. Without thought, Robert picked him up and tossed him in the air. Giggles were all that could be heard. Right there as he sat on the couch, DJ was tossed up by his grandfather.
Simonette and Daylen were on a Mommy and Daddy Moon.
It was an idea that Julie gave them. They both worked hard in their careers and as new parents.
It was easy to lose yourself when you had children, so Julie encouraged them to take a romantic vacation.
Julie, Charles, Declan, Robert, and Jubilae got together and gifted Day, Sim, Rissa, and Weston a week trip to Bora Bora.
Weston’s parents had their son. He was still bad as fuck.
“Lanette sent Simonette a case update,” Jubilae blurted.
The case was still ongoing, but it didn’t look good for Simone.
It came out during an argument between Simone and Kevin that he had set her up.
Over the years, Kevin begged Simone to leave Robert to be with him.
She rejected him every time. She even went as far as to tell him in so many words that Robert was better than him.
When Robert left her and she went crawling to Kevin, ready for a relationship, his bitterness kicked in. How dare she play him like that!
Now that she was no longer wanted by the man that she claimed was everything, she was prepared to be with the runner-up.
Kevin couldn’t have that, so he felt like it was time to push Simone off her pedestal.
He told her all the things that she needed to hear to think that he truly loved her so that he could gain her complete trust.
If you asked what Kevin did, he would say that he was a businessman.
The reality was that he was a con artist or scammer, whichever description you preferred of the two.
That was what he was. When he came to Simone with a business opportunity that would yield them millions, she jumped on it with no understanding of what it was.
All she heard was millions. She would finally be able to throw into Robert’s face that she was still able to live the good life without him.
Kevin convinced her to sell her home for some startup money, and she did.
Simone moved into a condo that was nice but beneath her.
She didn’t complain too much because she would be a millionaire when it was all said and done with.
Every form that Kevin told her to sign, she did without so much as a question.
Simone had signed documents that helped Kevin defraud the elderly around the nation.
Yes, they had yielded millions, but she also had yielded charges.
Kevin was sure not to add his name on anything.
She was unable to prove what Kevin had all out admitted to her, because it was his word against hers.
Her lawyer was not the best and pushed her to take a plea, which she refused.
Jubilae felt a pinch of pity for what Simone experienced and was still experiencing.
When Jubilae bailed Simone out of jail, she made sure to let her know that there would be no support from the Brands or Verses.
Neither family had anything for her. Her bond paid was the parting gift from both families.
Simone knew that she had made a lot of questionable decisions, but she didn’t think any of them would lead to this kind of fall from grace.
She lost everything. Now she was her daughter’s roommate and worked at a high end hotel as a front desk clerk.
Lanette was able to secure the job for her since she was a manager there.
“Is Simone in jail yet?” Robert bluntly asked.
“Ow!” He rubbed his arm where Jubilae hit it.
“I’m not saying I want her to go to jail, but based on what I know about the case, she better reconsider that plea.
It’s crazy the length an envious nigga will go to thinking he was getting the best of you. ”
Life had been lifing for everyone. What was ironic about that saying was that sometimes when life ‘lifed,’ it did it in all the right ways. Life had done its big one for the new Brands.
When Jubilae lost Julius, she wasn’t sure that she would ever fully love again.
The same was true for Robert. Simone hurt him, no matter how well he covered it.
It took time with a therapist to uncover it and heal it.
He firmly believed that was a part of the reason that he was able to see this new love in Jubilae the first time he met her.
After they married, Robert saw the paperwork that Jubilae filled out to legally change her name.
He suggested that she replaced her lack of a middle name with Plates to honor her past husband.
There was a deep respect that Robert had for Julius because his love for her kept her in a safe place to be able to be open to love again.
It was rare to meet a woman who had never been hurt in love outside of death.
There was no competition between Robert and a dead man. He knew that, and so did she.
His suggestion was overly respected by Jubilae’s side of the family, especially Julius Junior. When you were with the one that you were destined to be with, certain small things didn’t matter. Robert and Jubilae were in a brand-new love with each other that they intended to last forever.
Robert thought that he would only select a president when he chose Jubilae’s profile. Jubilae thought that she would only fulfill the role as the president when she accepted the position. What neither of them knew was that in his choice and her acceptance, they both acquired love.
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