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“Yes!” she yelled in excitement.
I laughed as I got out and opened their doors. Picking Rabbit up, I took Bunny’s hand and led them to the front door. The computer I installed for the doorbell scanned my face then the double doors opened.
“Welcome home, Mr. Pryor,” the AI system said as soon as I stepped inside.
“Thanks, OG,” I replied.
“Oh, hell no,” Nala said, standing next to me as I pushed the button for the doors to close. “Ahmad, really?”
“What? What’s wrong?”
“This place. During our many conversations, you’ve only mentioned you had a loft.”
“I know, and when we talked about it, I knew I needed to show you my actual home. The loft is just a space I use to be closer to my brother… and I guess now my moms and pops too.”
“This place is gorgeous. It’s giving ‘lifestyles of the rich and famous’. I’m thinking we need to talk about your net worth at this point.”
I chuckled again as I placed Rabbit on her feet. “Well, let’s check the place out, shall we?”
“Wait… Let me talk to you for a sec.”
“Mommyyy, I want to see the castleee!”
“Makari.” Bunny sighed. “Do you see what you’re creating? She’s never whined.”
“She’s not whining… you are.” I countered. “Come on, Rabbit. Let’s go explore the castle.”
I smirked at Bunny while she stood with her arms folded, looking pissed. I took them to explore my five-bedroom, seven bathroom home. Anything you could think to have in the home, I had it. This place had become my haven after leaving the streets alone and getting away from my family.
It was where I found solace and room to meditate after I left the game. It was where I allowed my desire to kill to be diminished. I never had to go outside when I was here because whatever I wanted, was right here in the home. Movie theater, tennis court, basketball court, swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna room, and a gym. If I wanted a certain meal, I hired a chef to prepare it, and had housekeeping come out three times a week to clean.
Since we’d been back in California, I had been plotting on when to bring them out here. I even had my interior decorator come out and turn one of the rooms into a playroom for Rabbit. I didn’t want to take them away from their norm, but I needed them to be home with me—in the Calabasas.
During my retirement, I did have thoughts of starting a family of my own, and filling this place up, but those thoughts quickly vanished because I didn’t like any woman enough to bring them into my place of peace. However, this woman who was walking in front of me with an attitude, made me rethink a lot of shit. Like funding her business, marrying her, and having three babies back-to-back. She may not be receptive to the shit that I had planned, but I had faith that she would at least consider it all.
After showing them around, I introduced Rabbit to her playroom and she fell completely in love. Since her favorite color was purple, I made sure she had purple everything with splashes of gold here and there. There was a playscape in the corner of the room, a drawing board, life-size dolls, a doll house, a projector, a bean bag, and a host of other shit I could think of to entertain a six-year-old.
“This is so neat! Thank you, Papa Ahmad!” Rabbit yelled, running into the room and sliding down the slide.
“You’re welcome, baby girl. Me and Mommy about to step out for a second. Can you chill here for me?”
“I’m staying right here, Papa. No worries.” I chuckled. Rabbit’s inquisitiveness and vocabulary blew me every time.
“Okay.” Bunny and I stepped out as I took her by the hand and led her into the open kitchen.
“What’s wrong, bun?”
“Nothing,” she said, sitting at the island in the middle of the kitchen.
“Not Miss ‘We need to communicate’ not communicating.”
“Don’t even. It took you almost a month to articulate your feelings for me after being pressured into doing so.”
“Okay, so now that I am, you want to shut down?”
“No… I just want you to be aware that I don’t condone spoiled behavior. I love that you spoil her, but when she begins acting entitled and whining because she wants something, that becomes a problem for me. I don’t raise her that way.”
I nodded as I waited a moment to let her words digest. “Okay. I realize that I’m coming in at the eleventh hour, moving a way that you all aren’t used to. I do apologize for that, but I don’t apologize for opening my heart and being open to the possibilities of having such an amazing woman and her equally amazing kid to spoil and love on. The way I see it, neither one of you ever had that from someone who wants to start a life with you. So you’ll have to excuse me if I want to show you and baby girl that the world is y’all’s, and everything in it.”
