Page 24 of A Hood Wife And A Rich Goon 2

“Are you asking me to be a nanny for your two beautiful babies?” Lotus gushed.

“I mean, would you consider it?”

“Girl, I would love it! They’re perfect!”

“I wouldn’t go that far,” Toni muttered, rolling her eyes. “They can be a handful, but they like you.”

“Well, when do you want me to start? I told the school I’d sub for two weeks until they got the replacement for this third-grade class, but if you need me sooner⁠—”

“Two weeks is perfect!” Toni clapped her hands together. “I’ll talk to Bull and get all the paperwork together for your official hire, salary, all that. You can look it over and then we can go from there.”

“Wow, you are amazing, Toni. Thank you so much.” Lotus pulled her into another hug.

“Girl, you helping me out. Hopefully working will keep me distracted, and I won’t have to think about my husband with other women.”

Bull cleared his throat nearby, and Toni’s head jerked in his direction. Eyes wide like a deer caught in headlights, suddenly her face flushed with embarrassment.

“How long have you been standing there?” Toni asked as Lotus slipped down the hall to her room and closed the door behind her. “Long enough to hear my wife still doubting me,” Bull answered, hands slipping into the pocket of his jeans.

“I don’t doubt you.”

“What you call it then, T? Questioning my feelings and loyalty to you and our fucking family.” He sneered, shaking his head and allowing his locs to swing.

“Can you blame me? I saw how you reacted to what Eazy said about his sister.”

“It was a natural fucking reaction!” he argued. “She went and married the enemy on some spur of the moment shit. That ain’t even like Essence. Yeah, I’m concerned, for several reasons. None of what you think, though.” Bull inched closer to his wife and placed a hand on her hip.

“How do you know what I’m thinking?” Toni whispered, folding her arms across her chest.

“Because I know my wife.” He pulled her into him and stole a kiss off her soft lips. “I love you too, and I’m more in tune with you than you think. I know I created the situation with Chai and everything, and I take accountability for that. I was wrong, and I knew it when I was doing it. Chai was the opposite of what I wanted. She was easy⁠—”

“She always has been,” Toni mumbled, looking off to the side.

Bull grabbed her chin and forced her to look at him.

“And she don’t mean shit to me,” he assured her.

“Okay, Bezai⁠—”

“Nah, it ain’t just okay, Antonia.” His tone left her middle quivering and a puddle forming in her panties. “You gon’ feel me one way or another.” He slapped her ass, then gave it a squeeze. “I want you to have all that mouth ready after we put the kids down tonight.”

“Bezai,” Toni whined against him, nipples poking his chest before he cuffed her chin and kissed her with enough passion to ruin her panties.

“Aight, I hate to eat and run, but I gotta go swoop Rhema up so we can go look at this house. I’m thinking of putting a bid on it, but I want to know what her and the girls think,” Jewel said from the front of the apartment as Bull pulled Toni into the living room.

With how he was feeling, he was ready to put his wife through the mattress and release some tension. She stepped into the kitchen to check on the kids, and Bull watched her while Eazy walked Jewel to the door.

“Jewel,” Bull called after him.

Pausing in the open door with Eazy standing nearby, Jewel turned.

“Stay on point.”

“You already know. We won’t get caught slipping twice. Real shit, though, we just playing it cool with Niva and Oracle too?” He checked with them.

“Let’s call it a grace period. Give muhfuckas a chance to get comfortable,” Bull acknowledged, shrugging with his hands in his pants pockets.

“Then wake they shit up,” Eazy chimed in.