Page 28 of Love’s Strongest Soldier

“Uh, Luxe, who is that man?”

“He’s here to protect us,” I told her and continued on to the kitchen.

I wasn’t in the mood to cook anything extravagant, so I decided to just make everyone sandwich melts. It was either that or the kids would be eating air fried chicken nuggets. They weren’t really picky eaters, which was great.

Kairose sat down at the kitchen table, and I placed Massimo in his seat and then went over to the refrigerator to grab everything I was going to need to make the sandwiches. I guess while I was in here, I’d be nice and fix Ghost one as well, even though we still aren’t on the best of terms. He had yet to apologize to me about having that girl Chris over. I knew that it sounded crazy for me to be expecting an apology when that was his place, and we aren’t even together, but I guess I just thought that he’d have more respect for me.

“Ghost!” I yelled his name as I grabbed the skillet from out the cabinet. A few seconds later, he appeared in the doorway. “Do you want a sandwich?”

“I’m not hungry.”

I rolled my eyes because he was standing here lying through his teeth. He hadn’t eaten anything before we left the house, and I bet if I was standing over there by him, I’d hear his stomach growling.

“I’ma make you one anyway. Sit down,” I instructed him and continued to make the sandwiches so that I could put them over into the frying pan.

Once I was done, I poured the kids some chips onto their plates and placed them on the table in front of them. Then I went into the refrigerator and grabbed them a Capri Sun juice and gave it to them as well.

Grabbing my plate, I sat down on the opposite end of the island with two stools in between Ghost and me. He had to know that I was still feeling some type of way.

Once we were done eating, the kids and I went into the den. Massimo didn’t last long before he fell asleep. Ghost had gone back into the living room by himself with his funny acting ass.

“Why do he look so mean?” Kairose leaned over and asked me.

“Huh?” I looked around the room, and no one was in here with us. “Who are you talking about?”

“Ghost. He looks mean.”

“He is mean, baby,” I told her, remembering how he’d hurt my feelings. “He was mean to me and haven’t apologized yet.”

Kairose frowned and then got up from the sofa. She went over to the toy bin, and that was when I saw her pull one of the Nerf guns out. She grabbed another and came back over to where I was. “Here.”

“What are you about to do with this?”

With a straight face, she said, “We gonna mess him up,” and then ran out the den.

I erupted in laughter and got up and went behind her. When I found her, she stood in the living room doorway with the Nerf gun hanging in her hand as she stared at Ghost, who wasn’t even paying her any attention. He was occupied with something on his phone.

“Meanie!” was the only thing Kairose said before she started shooting at him. Ghost was caught completely off guard. Lifting my hand, I shot at him as well. Ghost’s arm rose to his face to stop the bullets from hitting him there.

“What the hell,” he said, but that didn’t stop us. We continued until we didn’t have any more ammo.

Kairose tossed her Nerf gun to the side and charged Ghost. Her lil fists were flying all over the place. I dropped straight to the floor and was crying laughing.

“Oh, so you sent her in here to do yo’ dirty work, huh?” Ghost asked as Kairose beat his ass.

I wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes and said, “That’s right, baby, whup him.”

Kairose was gon’ be hell when she got older. I’d hate to see a guy mess her over. She wasn’t gon’ need her daddy or uncles or brother with the way she was handling Ghost.

“Okay. I’m tired,” Kairose said when she stepped back away from Ghost. “If you need me, I’ll be in my room with my apple juice.”

Ghost mugged me as Kairose bounced past me. I gave him the bird finger and left out of the living room behind her.

A couple hours had passed. It was time to get the children in bed. Massimo had long been in his bed since he fell asleep earlier. I gave Kairose a bath and settled her into her bed. She had me grab a book to read to her until she fell asleep. This was Wren’s child 100 percent. She didn’t play about her little books.

Slipping from underneath her, I covered her up, placed her book back on the shelf, turned off her light, and eased out of her bedroom, making sure to crack the door behind me. Soon as I turned around, I was sprayed down with water. I lifted my hand to my face to shield it. A gasp left my lips.

“You thought you was just gon’ get away with shooting me, huh?” Ghost asked as he continued to spray me. My shirt was soaking wet by the time he was done. His eyes zeroed in on my breasts. I was certain my nipples were showing extremely well through my shirt, seeing how I didn’t have on a bra. His dick pitched a tent in his pants. Here he was, trying to get me back and fucked himself up.