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Ashley POV

"I'm telling you babe the whole night was weird" I say to Izzy as we drive to our unknown destination. He woke me up early telling me to get dressed n shit. We ended up taking Aiden to my moms house as well.

"And what about your dad ?" He looked over to me

"I don't know. When I was young I always wished I had my dad but then I just learned to ignore it. But it was like seeing him hurt me like knowing that I missed out on that hurts" I say rubbing my hand over my thigh.

"Well what do you want to do? If you want a relationship with him now you can try but don't set your self up to get hurt by him. Then ima have to kill him and you and Maya gone be without a father." He says turning to a large gate.

"Where are we?" I ask as the gate opens and we drive down a grand driveway that had trees lined against the sides. As we get to the end we pull up on a beautiful home and I mean it is gorgeous. It has a circle driveway with a large fountain in the middle, from what I can tell a guest house, and many garages on the side.

"Looking a house" Izzy says so casually.

"For who?" I turn my head as he turned off the car before getting out and walking over to my side and helping me out.

"Who you think Ash? We can't stay in that house forever" he says as I straighten out my blouse. As I look up I notice a brunette woman standing beside a brown Porsche smiling.

"Hi, I am Stacey Deed it is nice to meet you two. Shall we begin the tour?" The joyful realtor said before we started the tour. And baby let me tell you the house was decked out. From almost every room having its own bathroom, the large open white kitchen, and padded black hardwood flooring throughout. As you walked it you saw a grand foyer with a waterfall chandelier, the main living room had a complete glass wall that opened up to the back yard which had an infinity pool, basket ball and tennis court. Don't even get me started on the master bedroom. It was almost twice the size of the one now. I honestly fell in love with the house.

Wait a damn minute how much money is this nigga making?

"Alright and we are back to the foyer I'll give you a few moments to discuss and explore and I'll be in the kitchen if you need anything" the lady says before walking off and leaving us.

"So what you think?" Izzy asks me as I look to the beautiful chandelier again

"It's beautiful babe I kinda love it" I lower my voice. "It's the perfect combination between both our styles and it's a good area to raise the kids" I say to him

"I thought you'd like it. Then it's not that far from yo moms and if we need my ma to come back she can stay in the guest house and all" he says grabbing my hand. "You want it?" He asks me

"Yes" I try and hide my excitement before we go back over to the realtor and make an offer. Of course we know this house is going to be really competitive but I know we gone get it so I'm not even stressing over it.

As we got into the car my phone ring unexpectedly.

"Hey Ash" Mayas voice blares through my phone.

"Who dat?" Izzy says as he cranks up the car. I mouth her name before going back to her

"Hey girl" I say placing my seat belt on.

"I just wanted to call to see how you were doing after last night" she says

"I mean I'm still a bit thrown off as of now but I'm fine" I tell her

"Would you be willing to come and actually meet him and talk to him? I mean like we can't just ignore it" she says as I let out a breath.

" I don't mind but I'm not going to force or beg anyone for anything. If he doesn't want a relationship with me which I'm pretty sure he doesn't then I'm not dealing with it" I say as I feel myself getting worked up. I begin to calm down as Izzy hand place on my thigh.

"I understand completely but I'm sure he would want to have a relationship with you. My I mean-our father isn't a hateful type and always wanted another child" she says. I get what she is saying but coming from the child that was left without a dad I'm really not trying to hear that.

"I get that you feel that way but he has clearly shown he didn't care or want me. But I'll come and I'm bring my mom" I say to her. I know I don't have to and it may not be the best thing but I don't know them people I'm not about to be there alone feeling uncomfortable.

"Okay great can you come at 8?" She says

"As In today? You're crazy." I laugh

"Please I have to leave town in the morning so this is really the only time" she says begging

"Sure. I'll let you know when I'm on the way" I say before hanging up the phone.

"What happened" Izzy asks before I explain our conversation so that I can get another input on the situation. I really don't know if I'm even making the right decision by going but I feel like I need closure.

"I think you should go just to hear him out. He might explain or some shit. I mean ain't no reason you should leave your child but shit ion know." She says pulling into my mothers house.

"Mom really? You don't need this." I flip through the Putin calendar looking through the various pictures of him. I just shake my head as I glance over the picture of him hugging a tiger.

"What it's nice look at him. Your babushka user to have these all over the house when we were growing up. Don't you remember he house ?" She says putting it on the fridge. "See cute" she smiles before going back to the large mixing bowl and making her icing. I look back into the living room seeing Alek big baby ass and Izzy watching basketball not paying any attention to anything else.

"Okay question" I says trying to proceed with caution before I blurt the question out.

"No" she says closing the pantry door with the powdered sugar in hand.

"Please I don't want to be alone." I beg her as she rolls her eyes

"Ashley-" she says as I cut her off

"What if I get worked up and upset the baby" I say using my backup plan knowing it'll work.

"Then take Izzy" she says

"You know neither him or Alek will be functional until the game goes off sooo.." I say

" Your uncle gets in in a little..." she looks at me as I tilt my head in a really nigga type of face. "Yeah no."

"Okay what about Paris or Bri?" She says

"Paris is probably working ..." I say

"And Bri" she ask as I just look off because I forgot Bri was off tonight so I really couldn't say anything.

"Bingo. Have fun" she laughs as Izzy comes in the kitchen and I shoot Bri a quick test.

"Baby you want to leave from here cause ima be watching the game for a min." He says as I just nod my head. I already figured so I didn't mind.

I spent my short period of time showing my mom pictures of the house we just looked at and ate all the cake she made. I'm going to be a cow before this pregnancy is over. Bri ended up just coming to my moms house since she was already out and we left from there.

" hold on hold on hold the fuck on."she says swerving.

"Okay could you not do that" I hold on to my seat belt.

"My bad. But you mean to tell me that her bald ass daddy is your biological father. What the hell. I swear I'm living in a movie with your family damn." She says laughing.

"Yes girl and then my mom had a damn panic attack then her mom didn't even acknowledge me like she knew about my mom and was annoyed." I say shaking my head. The whole situations is a whole mess and if rather not be apart of it but I am.

"I ain't never liked that no good, never worked, house wife, bitter ass bitch anyways" she rolls her eyes. Bri and Mayas mom had started off on the wrong foot when they first met. Honestly her mom was wrong because she was disrespectful for no reason to her.

I watch as we pull into the large gates as we did last night. This time the daylight showed off the nice landscape work and features of the contemporary home more than before.

"Alright Ashley if that bitch disrespects you or moms I'm whooping her ass" she says unbuckling

Her seat belt.

"She isn't worth it Bri don't even worry" I say to her before getting out of the car and making our way up the the door where it's automatically opened my an anxious looking Maya.

"Come on in y'all just in time" she says hurrying us in. She then leads us towards voices talking before we come upon the formal dining room where her parents and brother are talking. The room goes silent as all the eyes go to me. Her brother just smiles as her father gulps and the mother holds a scoff on her face.

"What are they doing here Maya?" Her father asks still looking at me.

"They are here for dinner. I hope you don't mind there's more than enough" she says pointing to two seats.

"I thought they knew I was coming" I whisper to her

"That would've never worked" she says as she walks away. I take a deep breath before walking over to the seat by her brother before he gets up and embraces me in a hug.

"It's nice to meet you sis" he whispers to me causing me to softly smile. I've never met him but Maya always speaks on how her younger brother Chris always does everything right and whatnot.

I take a seat before looking over to Bri seeing that her and Mayas mom are having a staring contest. I really don't understand this old lady's beef with her.

We sit in silence for a moment while the maids serve us our food and all that is to be heard it the clicking of plates and forks. I'm not even hungry so they wasting my time right now.

"Nice Birkin, I didn't know they made such realistic looking knockoffs now." Her mother says

"It's actually real. You can tell by the gold plating" I say sending a fake smile. Bitch.

"So how long have you two been married Brenda? Oh and congrats on your anniversary" Bri says out of no where still looking at the older woman. Finally someone told me this ladies name.

"27 years as of yesterday" she smiles back at her "may I ask why you would like to know?" She says back. Lady let it go.

I place my hand on Bri's under the table before looking at her with wide eyes telling her to calm down.

"I'm not about to sit here and ignore the elephant in the room anymore" Maya says slamming her fork down. "Dad why didn't we know about Ashley?" She asks.

Well girl that simple I could've told you the answer to that.

"Maya I am not in the-" she cuts him off

"Bull shit. She's a grown woman now. Hell almost older than me. You should be ashamed of yourself for how you did her and her mom" she said

"Maya..." he mother Brenda tries to warn. I stay quiet as my head begins to hurt from her loud talking.

"No mom I'm not done. And by the way you acting I wouldn't be surprised if you knew about it" she says as her mother and father go wide mouthed. Maya just looked at them shocked as they had just proved that she indeed knew about it.

Wow this is a crazy ass family.

"Could you tell me where the restroom is?" I ask Chris before he hops up and tries to help me up. I'm pretty sure it's because I'm pregnant but I'm not handicapped.

"Hey I'm sorry about them." He says to me as we walk down the long hall.

"It's fine..." I say

"No seriously. I hope we don't have to start on a bad foot because of my parent. It's really fucked up that my- well our dad is a dead beat but I'm really excited to have another sibling." He says before he continues. He seems nice. A little talkative but cool.

"Thank you. I wish I could actually have a conversation with him but it seemed Maya wanted just go in on him. I really didn't need to be here for that" I say as we come up on the bathroom. I step into the bathroom before bending over the sink and placing my hand on my forehead. I could've stayed

my ass home. Got my blood pressure rising.

As I step out of the bathroom I see that Chris is still standing there waiting.

"I didn't want you to get lost in here" he says

"Thanks." I says before we begin walking back." So how old are you?" I ask him. He seems like the only decent one in this family other than Maya but she a little weird so.

"I turn 17 in two weeks. You should definitely come to my party" he says

"I would love to. "

"Okay cool let me have your number so I can send you the info" he says before I place my phone number in his phone and he shoots me a text before he saves his name in my phone as Big Sis Ashley. Something about that touched my heart because I've always wanted siblings but never had any. It was nice to know that someone here actually cared that I was here.

"Our other brother Tj will be there as well so you can meet him. He couldn't be here since he was working but he's a dick so I'm glad he's not." He says "I'm sorry..." he notices my discomfort "he's not that bad... all the time. I'm sure he will like you" he says

"Yeah." I smile to him as we get back to the dining room where Maya is pacing. I didn't know what else to say to him so I just left as that. I'm not trying to seem rude but at this point in life I really don't care how they react to me. I've already prepared myself for the worst. I walk over to my chair before grabbing my purse which signaled Bri that I was ready to go. She began getting up from her seat as well.

"Where you going?" Maya halts in her talking with her parents.

"Home. My son isn't used to being away from either one of his parent" I shoot some shade at her father.

"You didn't even get to talk" she says as her mother scoffs before talking a sip of her unknown substance

"It's fine Maya. Thank you for allowing us in your home have a good night." I say before heading towards the exit.

"Bye sis I'll talk to you later" Chris says before hugging me and we walk towards the door. As we get out of the door I am stopped by a voice calling my name from behind.

"Ashley" a older male voice says Before I turn around seeing my father walking up.

"I'd love to actually talk to you one on one" he says to me which was shocking. We ended up exchanging numbers before I turned back around. "How's your mother" I turn back around to see his eyes glossy. Dont do that nigga. Ain't no way he still feel sum for my mom.

"She's wonderful. Never been better" I lie to him seeing hurt in his eyes. Did I lie? Maybe a little. My mom is still a messed up from last night but I wasn't going to let him know.

"Tell her that I-" he is stopped by his rude ass wife coming up.

"Tim I need your help." She basically demands him before he just turns and goes. Simp ass nigga.

I walk out of the double doors to Bri's car which is already running and hop in.

"You okay mamas?" She ask me as I just stare ahead before beginning to cry. I don't know why I am crying again. I told myself that I wasn't going to allow him to have anymore of my tears but the little girl in me is still hurting. A part of me always longed for that father daughter relationship. A part of me still needed him.

"Listen Ash. You are smart, successful, beautiful, and an amazing person, friend, and mother. You didnt become the person that you are now with him in your life and he should be the one feeling bad for missing out on your life and growth. If he decides to become apart of your life and you allow him now fine but if not you will be alright. I know your pain Ash. I know how it feels to not have a father. It's hard but because of it, it made you stronger. It's helped motivate you Ash I've seen it." She says as she wipes the tears from my face.

"I'll go light his ass up right now just say the word" she says reaching in her glove department

"It's okay Bri" I laugh slightly " thank you" I say softly as she hands me a tissue.

"That's what im here for Ash. But forreal fuck his bald headed ass and his ashy ass wife." She says making me laugh "you could see in his eyes the regret when you walked in" she says as we pull up to my house which was closer than expected.

"I don't know Bri. It's still a lot to process honestly." I say

"Last Chance ash I'll go blow that house up" she says warning

"It's okay Bri go home" I say getting out.

"Who said I was going home. I'm going to get my shit turned o-" I close the door in the middle of the sentence since I already knew where it was going.

I walked into the quiet house before heading upstairs to see Izzy on his computer on the bed and Aiden knocked out beside him with no shirt on.

"Hey baby" I say lowly

"Hey ma how was it?" He asks still looking at the computer. I give Aiden a kiss on his head before going to the closet and getting some different clothes so i can shower.

"A Damn mess." I say before sitting in his lap and giving him a kiss before explaining what happened and going to take a shower.

Brenda POV

"HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN?" I yell at Timothy as he applies lotion to his freshly washed arms

"It was bound to happen eventually Brenda." He says so nonchalantly like he doesn't even care. We've worked so hard for this family and this to not come back and he doesn't care.

"You said you were going to handle it." I say " I should've let my father handle it like I said" I mumbled as I paced. I found out that Timothys little girlfriend was pregnant before he did and was furious. Of course I wasn't supposed to know about his affair but I found her number in his files and began digging. One day I ran into her at the pharmacy when she was picking up prenatals and she was just so happy about her baby and was sure he would be as well. I couldn't let that happen. Because I know he was in love with her. He didn't even look at me. I know he wouldve dropped me the moment she told him. But gladly I found out before he did and threatened to ruin his career and rat him out to the authorities about how he got the funds to start his world famous firm. It was simple really. He broke it off with her and when she tried to drag him to court it didn't work out due to us being the court system.

You can only imagine the anger I felt when They bumped into each other at our anniversary party. I saw the way he looked at her and the way she looked at him. I couldn't let that happen.

"What the hell Timothy. Why is she here?!" I whisper yell from the study so the guest don't hear us.

"I don't know Brenda" he says covering his face

"I can't believe this right now" I pace before taking a shot from the small bar cart.

"I'm not about to do this with you. We need to get back out there and do not make a scene" I say before walking back out into the party greeting the guest.

"Well what do you want me to do now? I've abandoned a child to save our family already what do you want me to do now?!" He yells to me

"You should've never slept with that woman in the first place Tim. This is all your fault. Now we have your bastard child in our lives and in our children's lives." I say back. "What will people say when they find out?" I ask him not thinking about our image

"That's your problem always worried about everyone else's opinion on our private lives. I dealt with Melyssa in Almost 26 years so stop bringing it up." He says back.

"I can't with you. Your going to ruin this family" I say shaking my head to him