Dominating Love ✓

[Chapter Thirty-Eight]

It took him months to get her to go on a date with him because she was never in the same crowd, we did go through school in the more of the popular crowd and she was content playing sports but not for the school studying and reading.

She was a smart girl and that's why it took Riley so damn long to get her to go out with him. I think the thing that did it for her was that he was smart as well. He made her think and could hold a conversation. Monica didn't give a damn who he was, the money, the popularity; she loved him because of his character and his mind, because of what he had to offer inside, not out.

I had been jealous of them and what they had as long as I could remember, Riley and I were close and I always wanted someone to look at me like that, to stand by me like he did with her. I wasn't envious of being a teen parents but I was on how well their relationship handled it, of how they adapted and grew together and it took me until, not even the night I slept with him but much longer to realize that what I had envied all those years was standing right beside me for all of them.

"Where the hell are we?" Rochelle seemed to catch on that she had no idea where we were

"What?" I asked playing dumb and she got pale

"Oh god, are they taking us the wrong place, what the fuck kind of driver is this! You're getting us lost, oh god, I'm not going to make it for my own wedding." She was about to burst into tears and in about three minutes she would.

"Calm down Rochelle, just breathe. It's fine, you know I always fix things, trust." I told her and she nodded. She wasn't doing well in a crisis and I had fixed every problem because I learned from Linda, Linda was the assertive on for me when things were going wrong and I had no problem handling her issues, even if it meant being a little bit of a bitch when they completely screw up the flowers or cake flavors.

"Okay."

"Close your eyes and count to a hundred, it will make you feel better. Don't talk, just breathe and count in your head." I told her and she nodded and did as I told her too, for one it really did help me and for two we were almost there and I wanted her to close her eyes without getting suspicious.

I watched her mouth the numbers as she counted and Monica was giddy with excitement for her to see this and so was I. She had her wedding planning binder, I knew what all her dream things were and this was the hardest for her to accept she couldn't have.

It was this huge mansion that had gardens out front and a private beach in the back, it felt like a castle and Rochelle was a girl who always wanted to be a princess on her wedding day.

"Okay, a hundred." She still had them closed as we drove down the drive

"Feel better?" I asked her and she nodded

"Yeah, thanks, I don't know what I would do without you; you've already made my wedding day perfect." She grabbed my hand and I grinned

"Not perfect enough yet." She wasn't even paying attention as I pulled her hand for us to get out and nudged her forward and she finally took a look around and when she did her hand flew up to cover her mouth and her eyes watered.

"Brylee, what are we doing here?" she asked and I wrapped my arm around her

"We're here so I can watch my best friend marry hers at the place she always dreamed of."

"Brylee it's too much." She was shaking

"Nothing is too much for you. You're family and you know we take care of family." After she's married I get to be the one to tell her about the money, I can't believe she seriously thought my parents wouldn't make sure she was taken care of, I mean they paid for all five of us to go to college, granted we all got scholarships to help but it was still a pretty penny. Paying for five kids in university isn't cheap, especially when it's all at the same time.