Cranes in the sky play loudly as Raven danced along and sang to the music while she got dressed for her day out with the family. They would all be going to have a day on the beach as their last day together.

Stephen lay on the bed looking between her and his phone. The business meeting he had this morning had him stressed, irritated, and the high notes Solange and Raven were hitting was making his headache turn into a migraine.

"Baby you sound beautiful but please." She laughed as he massaged the sides of his head in agony.

"My shit is throbbing, I'll do whatever you want. Just please turn it down."

She turned the music down as Blessings by Chance the rapper began to play.

He had finally caught wind of her bathing suit and fell in love with her even more. The two piece hugged her breast and butt just the way he liked it. The closer she came to him the more he wanted to rip the items from her body. They hadn't had sex since their company had landed and he was getting sexually frustrated. The two didn't have sex often but when they did it wasn't just sex for him. He made love to her even though she believed Stephan had no longer loved her. He wanted to pleasure her mind as much as he did her body and that alone took a lot of work.

She made her way next to him in bed placing her feet across his lap and rapping along to Neighbors by J. Cole.

Everything about this girl enticed him. Her choice in music. How she knew so many songs and had various playlists that matched her mood including songs before her. Keisha Cole and Ashantie1 being her favorite artist with a splash of Aaliyah, Mary J., Jazmine Sullivan, and Jennifer Hudson.

"You know I love you right?" He says rubbing her legs but not making eye contact with her.

"Everything I've done to hurt you I promise I didn't mean it. I just knew that I wanted you. I had to have you. And once I got you... I.. I don't know, it's like I just couldn't live without you."

She stared at him tears now running down her face. She didn't want to be anywhere near him right now. Soon he would be saying something to hurt her feelings like he always did when she didn't respond the way her wanted her to.

Emotions racing she began to shake from anger her body moving swiftly to the bathroom to get back in the shower and calm herself. Stephan didn't love her. He loved the thought of her. The thought of owning her. And her being his until the end of time or death do them part.

She could hear him make his way into the bathroom and soon after into the shower behind her. Placing his head into the crook of her neck and rubbing her large belly, he hummed along to If I Ain't Got You by Alicia Keys.

Raven did love him but she could never get over the fact that he had stalked her, raped her, and kidnapped her. That's not something you do when you love someone. Stephen didn't even know that if he would have done things correctly he would still be in the exact situation he was in right now. Despite his mother hating her, despite him being older than her and close to graduating. She imagined them having a family, moving on, and her becoming a housewife.

She finally turns around to face him, taking his face in her small hands and rubbing his cheeks with his thumbs.

"We're meeting the family in an hour so let's get dressed and while I cook we'll lay everything out on the table. All our dirty laundry so that we can finally get past this. Okay?"

He nods and leans down to kiss her. He wanted to make her happy. Needed to make her happy. Show her that he was telling the truth when he said he loved her. Anything she wanted he would give her from now on. If she wanted the world she would get it piece by piece. But if she wanted to leave that wasn't an option.

Backseat by Ari Lennox play and she fell in love with the song all over again. She had discovered the song on accident and fell in love keeping it on repeat. The first time she played it in Stephan's car they had ended up parking in a abandoned lot on campus and having sex in the backseat at 1 am after a study session at the library.

"This song brings back so many memories."

He smiles and shakes his head.

"Yeah, the first time I heard this song I found out you were a freak for real."

They both laugh. Knowing they wanted each other more than ever at the moment. Raven missed how good the sex used to be and Stephen just wanted to be inside of her any chance he could get.

"Talk first sex later."

Raven pouts but agrees as she walks downstairs to make them both something quick to eat. Like You Love Me by August Alsina play loudly throughout the house.

"The fuck going on with your playlist this morning ?"

She shrugs and continues to make her pancakes.

"I'll start first." She says.

"When we first started dating I was still skeptical of you really wanting to date me because I'm like this fat, short, not so pretty thing with a gap and you're like summer time fine and a Nupe. So I like knew you were gonna fuck up my life... and my guts but I didn't know you would fuck up my life like this. Then when we broke up it just made shit worst. You should have known I was gonna end up having sex with someone else. Shit I had sex with you every-time something inconvenienced me or upset me. But I didn't think that me meeting your mom would be that bad. I'm already insecure and she just made shit worst. Why would you put me in that situation?"

"I honestly didn't know Maryland would act like that. She loved you over the phone so I don't know why she acted like that in person."

"Anyways. If you would have just straight out asked me to marry you and move away with you I would have done it no questions asked. Like you didn't have to rape me and kidnap me to get things to work out the way you planned them."

He makes his way to her placing her on the counter and standing between her legs. The robe she was wearing made its way open and he couldn't help but stare at her as he spoke.

"That's how I wanted things to go down. When I landed I just wanted to pull up with flowers, a unicorn and a date. But when I got there you were getting picked up by another nigga. A fat nigga at that and you seemed happy with him until I started seeing the other two picking you up and y'all kicking it and you looked happy with them too. But when you had sex with that nigga the shit fucked my head up. You were supposed to be mine and only mine. You made me wait while you were home for literally three weeks and that nigga got it no problem. That's when shit went downhill. I never meant to hurt you the way I did though."

"Sex with him meant nothing though it was just that. Sex and it only happened once because it wasn't good nor was he big enough to please me. I did all of the work."

They both laugh and Ghetto by August Alsina plays in the background. Stephen raps Yo Gotti's part and Raven starts to sing and stuff her mouth with a pancake.

"I really love you girl."

"I love you too."

They kiss and the kiss turns heated. They made love right there in the kitchen on the counter. Ravens pants and screams filled the room along with Stephen's grunts and moans. They both missed the feeling and had longed for it to happen.

When it was over they went back to their normal selves as if they hadn't just finished devouring each other sexually and screaming each other's names.

"I just feel like the connection comes and goes and I hope it's not like that when the kids come."

"Look Ray I'll do whatever it takes to get that spark back. Even if it means us moving back home for good we can do it. And I'll also do anything for you to get rid of anything that'll send me to jail."

She stares at him blankly almost forgetting that she told him she had been recording him.

"I'm not getting rid of any of it. I just won't get it sent to Victoria's email anymore. But I'm not letting you off that easy E. You were wrong and you took me away from people that love and care about me just as much as you do and that was selfish."

He sighs knowing that at this point there's nothing he can do to get her to change her mind.

"Once the kids come I have a surprise for you. But I'm going back to the states tonight when everyone else leaves. Your in home help will be here around 7:30 so I can introduce you to him and lay down some rules while I'm gone. Vicky is willing to stay if you want her to."

"They didn't clear me to fly ?"

"Papers on the table. Doc said it's too risky with you being stressed lately."

"But we are going once the twins come right ?"

"Yeah anytime and for however long you want to be there."

"Ok"

Put it in by Bobby V and K Michelle began to play and he walks away shaking his head.

"Whatever Apple Music got going on they need to cut it out before I have yo little ass laid out somewhere."

"Put your money where your mouth is." She yells behind him as he makes his way up the stairs

He stops at the top stairs and looks down debating on if he should go back down. He makes his way to her slowly laying her back on the couch.

"You don't want this problem."

She smirks pulling his face to her and kissing his lips continuously.

"I missed this, I want this us back. Being able to play around and joke with each other. I don't like you being scared of me. And I hate myself when I yell at you or raise my voice. Let me fix this?"

Raven nods and continues to place small kisses on his lips.

She wanted nothing more than for her fairytale to come true. The tables had began to turn and she was becoming obsessed with Stephen.

She now knew his every move when he left the house. The gps in his car would send a message to her phone for every stop he made outside of his normal routine that she was aware of. His receptionist send her emails of his work schedule, every meeting he had, and with who.

Raven wasn't letting him go. No foreign female was going to become his mistress or side chick. And she was taking all precautions to prevent that. She had already got some background on her in home help once she saw his name on Stephens phone.

She already knew about the homes that Stephen was planning to purchase in Georgia and Virginia so that they could be close to family when they came to visit.

Anything he did now she knew. And she found nothing wrong with it seeing as though he had done it to her.

Stephen had started it and she was just finishing it. Right?