I leaned against the doorway, watching as Kynessa rocked my niece gently, singing some song I didn't recognize. The room was dim, just that star projector casting blue and purple dots across the ceiling and walls.
"There we go," Kynessa whispered as Nova's eyes finally closed. She carefully placed her in the crib, tucking a small blanket around her legs. She tiptoed out, gently closing the door until it was just cracked open.
"I left it open a little so we can hear her if she wakes up," she explained, as she headed towards her bedroom door, she looked back at me and smirked.
“You coming?”
“You know I am,”
Back in her bedroom, Kynessa was sitting on her bed, scrolling through her phone, her long weave now pulled up in a messy bun on top of her head. She changed into just an oversized t-shirt that barely covered her ass.
"She went to sleep quick," I said, kicking off my Jordans and sitting beside her.
"She always does for me." She set her phone down, giving me a smirk. "It must be my magic touch."
"Is that right?" I raised an eyebrow, leaning back against her headboard. "What else your magic touch good for?"
She rolled her eyes but moved closer, her hand sliding up my thigh. "You must aint tryna find out, after bringing me some cold-ass Red Lobster, and on top of that you look just as tired as Nova."
"Shorty, that food wasn't cold," I protested, but my body was already responding to her touch. "And I got plenty of energy for you. I aways do."
That wasn't a lie. No matter how tired I was, how stressed, how fucked up things got, being with Kynessa was the one time my mind shut off completely. Maybe that's why I kept coming back, even knowing we wasn’t going no further than this.
"Mmhmm." She was already unbuckling my belt. "Let's see about that."
She slid down between my legs, looking up at me with those big brown eyes as she pulled my jeans down just enough.
"The baby monitor is on," she whispered, nodding toward the little screen on her nightstand showing Nova sleeping peacefully.
"We good."
Before I could respond, her mouth was on me, warm and wet. My head fell back against the headboard, one hand instinctively going to the back of her head. She knew exactly what I liked.
"Fuck," I whispered, my other hand gripping her sheets.
She hummed in response, the vibration nearly sending me over the edge. Her hands jagged my dick as her mouth applied pressure in all the right places. Shit was fucking fire.
"Nessa... I'm about to—" She didn't stop, she just looked up at me with big doe eyes that said she knew exactly what she was doing. A few moments later, I bit down on my bottom lip to keep me from crying out like a bitch as I came down her throat. My whole body tensed then relaxed all at once.
Kynessa sat up, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand, looking entirely too pleased with herself.
"A bitch still got it," she said with a smirk. I pulled her up beside me, my breathing still uneven.
"I never said you didn't."
She curled up against my chest, and for a minute, we just laid there in comfortable silence. I could feel her heartbeat against my side, steady and familiar.
"You spending the night?" she asked, already sounding half asleep.
"Nah, I got a meeting with the team in the morning." It wasn't entirely a lie. We did have a meeting, but not as early as I was making it sound.
She nodded against my chest, not pushing it. That was another thing about Kynessa, she never pushed. Shorty never asked for more than I was willing to give. And that’s why I fucked with her the way that I did.
As her breathing deepened, signaling she was drifting off, my mind started racing again. Thoughts about Tasha, about Nova'sfuture, about business, about whether this lawyer Sosa found was actually gonna come through or just take our money.
Once Kynessa was fully sleep, I carefully slipped out from under her. She stirred slightly but didn't wake up, she just curled around her pillow instead. I covered her with her blanket.
I grabbed my wallet pulling out six crisp hundreds. For a second I hesitated, knowing Kynessa would probably be pissed when she found the money. She always said she wasn't doing this for money, that she was helping with Nova because she loved Tasha and Nova. But I also knew that she spent her own money on stuff for Nova all the time.