Shanique Grant
"I want to go to church this weekend."
Dan looks over at me from his seat on the mini couch.
"Any particular reason?" He asks after he is done assessing me.
"Have to give God thanks for all my blessings. Despite me not getting my biggest desire, he has been constantly blessing me. With you, with my job now this house. I have to look at the bigger picture." I explained.
"Oh. Do I have to come?" He asks and I chuckled.
"Not if you don't want to." I say.
One thing I'm not going to do is force him. Especially, to come to my church that's a whole day event.
"I want to." He says after a while. That made me smile.
"Okay. I would love that." I tell him.
It's the truth.
Going to church by myself will lead to all those old people bombarding me with all sorts of questions. They love to ask young people about marriage and rebuke living in sin.
Having my husband there will shut up those questions. Although , they might press Dan too, but he's a big boy and can take care of himself.
"Shan mi hungry." Dan says after another half hour of us doing our own thing.
I looked over at him and sighed.
"Come cook for me nuh." He says in a whiney tone, making me side eye him.
"Shanique yuh know yuh a con artist though." He says when I didn't move from my spot on the bed.
The bed felt so good, I didn't want to come out.
"How mi a con artist?" I asked, finally getting up.
"Yuh use yuh cooking and tie me and after mi put ring pon yuh finger is like man a fi beg yuh fi feed me. A nuh good style that." He says and I burst out laughing.
"Who use food and tie yuh sir?"
"You! Nuh you come put down big cooking a mi place, knowing seh mi nuh used to good treatment. Now yuh waah man feed pon round bun." He says jokingly.
"Want a bet seh mi nuh cook anything?" I asked him and he quickly shook his head.
I left him in the room to go see what exactly we have here.
After a quick search I realized that we really didn't have groceries. CJ only buy juice and liquor.
Typical man.
I found a notepad in one of the drawers and started on a list of items that I need. I don't even know what to cook for Dan.
It's the middle of the week.
A thought came to my mind and I had to laugh at the irony. I'm going to ask him about it.
Walking into the room, I walked over to my bags looking for my purse.
"Yuh want stew peas?" I asked as I picked up the black purse with my wallet.
There wasn't a reply so I turned around to check if Dan had heard what I said.
He was staring at me real hard and I couldn't help the laugh that escaped me.
"Mi see seh yuh tek mi fi one big joke enuh Shanique."
"Yuh want the stew peas, yes or no?" I said trying to stop myself from laughing some more.
He hissed loudly, throwing himself on the bed.
"Just cook sumn for me Shanique." He says sounding like a petulant child.
"I'm going to the supermarket, we don't have groceries" I tell him as I check my purse for the correct cards.
"Um, my wallet is over there suh in my pants." Dan says making me roll my eyes.
I ignored him as I check for my Driver's license.
"Your car is in the garage, the key is in there on the hook as well." He tells me and I just nod.
I walked out of the room heading to the door that leads from the kitchen to the 6 car garage.
I stopped in my tracks when I saw not three but four cars parked there. Two I know to be Anderson's, and the other was mine.
Walking around the dark grey jeep with red finishing, I admired the masterpiece. I spotted the Mercedes Sign on the front and grinned.
This is definitely Anderson's baby.
He didn't tell me he was buying a new car.
I slowly walked away from the jeep and walked over to my car with some jealousy.
I wanted one too.
I wonder if Dan would let me drive it? Probably not.
Walking over to the key rack I stared at the keys there. I swiped the silver key fob with a mysterious grin and pressed the open button and the van chirped to life.
I got in quickly before my nerves got the better of me and slowly backed it out of the garage.
Pulling out of the drive away I breathed out a huge breath I didn't realize I was holding in.
Anderson is going to kill me if I scratch this damn car. He literally just upgraded it a few months ago.
He has the Jeep now so I must can drive this one, right? Right.
I wasn't sure of which supermarket to go, so when I pulled up the red light I did a quick Google search.
Getting to the supermarket was pretty easy as the traffic on the main road was pretty light. I carefully parked the SUV getting out to check that I was safely in the parking space.
I did a great job.
Now for what them send here for, groceries.
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I parked the car where I found it and got out closing the door softly. Turning around, I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw Dan sitting at the doorway leading into the garage.
Our eyes connected and I almost jumped out of my skin.
Dan chuckled and got up from his spot on the step.
"You a problem enuh Shan." He says before going to the open trunk.
I watched him remove the bags and then led the way into the house. I followed behind him nervously.
Yuh see when yuh nuff.
I found him in the kitchen unpacking the groceries and I joined him.
"A wah a go in a the stew peas?" He asks while looking at the items on the counter.
I walked over to the counter and separated the items for dinner from the other stuff that I bought.
Dan started to put up the other things while I got started on dinner. I was going to pressure the peas and the pigtail.
I looked around when I heard rustling, like someone was opening a snack wrapper.
Why was I not surprised?
There was Anderson with my round bun in his hand. I couldn't even say anything to him because I know he is hungry.
"So, how yuh like the machine?" He spoke.
I looked at him good before answering.
"It's nice. It's sensitive though." I tell him.
He chuckled.
"For real. More while mi in a that, mi feel like me a glide." He says with excitement.
"I didn't want to drive too fast. I took my time." I tell him and he hissed.
"Yuh cya a gwaan fraidy fraidy in a the big bad Benz Shanique." He says and I laughed.
I guess he's not mad that I took it.
"I know, but it's not mine so I had to be careful." I tell him and he deadpans.
"How comes it's not yours?" He asks me and I rolled my eyes.
"A your car Anderson. I just borrowed it." I try to explain my point as I added the peas and meat to the pressure cooker.
"Anything I own is yours, including the cars." He says taking a seat on the kitchen island and I smirked.
"Even the new one?" I ask him and he paused.
He was really thinking about it and that made the situation even funnier.
"Well maybe not that one. You're a passenger princess at all time in that one." He tells me and we both laughed at that.
I turned to focus on what I was doing while Anderson watched me.
I could feel his eyes in my back.
"Why yuh in here a watch me Anderson?" I say without turning to face him.
"Mi a mek sure yuh nah come tie me up more with the stew peas." He says, and I had to laugh.
"You done tie already, so watching me won't help you now." I say looking over at him.
He smirked before blowing me a kiss.
I blushed, turning back to my cooking.
How does he still make me feel this way?
Authors note:
Do you guys like this book? I know it's moving a little different from book 1 but I never asked if you guys fuck with it like that.