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“Did you?”
He sighed. “Yes, ma’am, I did.”
“I know you did.”
He rubbed his forehead and sighed again.
“I’ma leave you alone, boy. Hey, you know you cooked this food. Woo! All my favorites, too!” she exclaimed.
“Of course I did, Ma. Anything for you. You know that, even though you love to embarrass me.”
“Oh, hush. I didn’t hurt your big butt. The truth ain’t never hurt no one.”
After dinner, as she and Mel waited for Rell to pull the car around, Mrs. Higgs wrapped me in another hug and whispered in my ear, “I’m so glad you came into my boy’s life. I can’t stand that trashy-ass Veda.”
I smiled, and a few minutes later, stood next to Lorenzo on the front steps, watching them leave.
Once we were inside, climbing the stairs and heading to bed, I asked his back, “Did you mean that stuff you said about me to your mom?”
He stopped for a second and then continued up the stairs. “Yeah, I did,” he said softly.
“You wanna marry me?”
“Eventually, yes.”
“You love me, Zo?”
We’d made it to the second floor and had walked down the hall into his bedroom before he finally answered me. “If I say yes, are you gonna run from me again?”
I halted my steps by the closet where I was getting ready to take my dress off and hang it up, and turned around. “What?”
“You’ve always been worried about us moving too fast. We’ve only been together for a short while, so I’m thinking if I say I love you right now, you’ll break and run. I’d rather that not happen again.”
“Zo, I’m sorry for being so wishy-washy before, but please believe me when I say I don’t plan on going anywhere, especially if you tell me you love me.”
He was sitting on the side of the bed, his tie loose around his neck and his eyes glued to me. “Then yes, I love you, Doc. Have for a while now.”
I kind of just stood there with my dress half on and half off. “Zo…”
He shrugged. “I do, Doc. Don’t expect you to say it back, at least not right now.”
I walked over to him, stepping between his legs. “Maybe I want to. Maybe I love you, too.”
He reached up, resting his huge hands on my hips. “Maybe?”
“Definitely. I love you, Zo.”
He smiled, stood, and pulled me into a knee-buckling kiss.
When his mouth finally left mine, I said, “Zo, since you love me, can I call you Odell?”
“Hell, no.”
