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don’t
disrespect whoever you choose to shack up with.”
    “No you just run background checks
on them and threaten me with custody if you don’t like what you find.”
    “You bet your ass, if anyone’s
gonna be around my little girl they better not even have a speeding ticket. I
don’t care who you fuck as long as they’re not a danger to my kid.”
    “What about her, your precious Lily?”
She flung her hand out towards the door.
    “I ran her ass too and she
knows it, besides she doesn’t come with any baggage, I was her first.” I knew
that would cut her deep but what the fuck did I care? Any feelings I’d had for
her had died a long time ago. If not for my daughter I wouldn’t even say hi to
this beast on the street. But because I love my kid immeasurably there wasn’t
anything I wouldn’t do to make sure she was happy.
    Holly loves
her mother no doubt about that, and she loves me. I can’t give her everything
she wants, like a solid home with her mom and dad, because dad would end up
decapitating mom over the breakfast table and that shit wouldn’t be good for
anybody. But everything else, daddy had it covered.
    I didn’t even
feel sorry for her ass; she’s been running from man to man since the divorce.
She kept that shit discreet and didn’t bring that shit around my kid or I
would’ve taken her a long time ago. I wasn’t about to tell her how to live her
life but she wasn’t going to fuck up my kid’s life. Lily wasn’t the first fuck
I’ve had since the split but she’s the only one that Holly has ever met. That’s
because she was more than just a fuck and as soon as I realized what she meant
to me and would mean to my life I knew it was okay to introduce her to the
woman in my life. My daughter.
    Deanna was out
in the cold and she knew it. While I was moving on with my life she was still
floundering around looking for what the fuck I don’t know. But I know she was
sure that what I had with Lily was serious, and that there was only one place
for us to go. She probably knew that shit before I did.
    It had been
almost two years and we were going stronger now than in the beginning; anyone
with eyes could see where the shit was going. I had no doubt that shit was
throwing my ex into a panic. For some fucked up reason she seemed to think
there was a chance we could get back together. Yeah! About as
much as a snowball’s in hell.
    “If that’s all
you came for, I need to get going. I just pulled an all nighter .
I need some rest before I go see about my place.” I had management opening the
bars these days so I didn’t have to run that shit myself. Plus with two more
that needed my attention I was stretched pretty thin.
      I usually split my time between the three
on different days just making sure that things were running smoothly. No one
messed with my shit because my new acquaintances didn’t exactly give people the
warm fuzzies . So I didn’t worry about stealing and
shit, but there were other concerns when running a business that I liked to
stay on top of. Funny that the fact that I was an ex- cop didn’t deter bad
behavior, but the fact that my boys were bad asses did. It’s the world we live in I guess.
    She wasn’t happy about being
dismissed but that was nothing new. It couldn’t be easy to have to live with my
indifference after having been under me for so many years and bearing me a
child. But that shit she pulled had literally soured me against her for life.
If I’d been a vindictive prick I would’ve cut her out of my kid’s life and be
done with her but I won’t do that to my little princess unless shit got
drastic.
    I had a quiet word with my girl
before giving her back to her mother, making sure that all was right in her
world.

Chapter 10

 
 
      After they were gone, I had two things on
my mind. Pussy and sleep, breakfast could wait. I took the coffee cup from
Lily’s hand as she sat at the island and set it aside. There was no need for
conversation, she