It was awkward between her and Cory after the kiss. He would not talk to her, even look at her or stand to be in the same room as her. Anytime she walked into a room he was in, he quickly made an exit.

Another stress she did not need, so she did what she could to not think about it.

She took her brothers with her while she went shopping for the baby. She tried to stay incognito, but her face was too recognizable. Lots of fans stopped her to get pictures from her. She felt she was not looking her best big as a house, but she needed to repair her image after everyone sided with Icee and hated her for dragging him in her drama.

No more being the bad girl to the media.

And she for sure needed to repair her image with her fans.

At least she still had them. So she took every picture with every fan that wanted one. She made videos with them and even let a few touch her belly. Her brothers kept them from going too crazy. All in all, it was a nice outing, but next time she would send someone else to do the shopping. Or shop online.

"Sis, you come up with a name for my nephew yet?" Kirk asked.

"I already told you-"

"Wait to see what he looks like?" Kirk frowned. "But now you know Tempo is the father, so give him his father's name."

"Boy are you crazy?" Her brother was on one. "I am not doing that to my boy. He may be the sperm donor but I don't know if that boy will step up and be a real father."

"Name him after dad, then," Derrick said.

"You know I love dad, but that's a no."

"Nephew coming soon, you better decide soon. When I have my first son, he's Kirk Junior all the way."

"Find a girl first," she said with a chuckle.

"What are you talking about? I have a girl. JJ gonna be my girl. When I get with her, we're going to have lots of pretty babies."

She rolled her eyes and looked over at her younger brother who sat quietly in the front next to her driver. Derrick was just going to sit there? Not say a thing?

"Kirk, maybe JJ has found someone already. You sure took a long time trying to tell her how you feel."

"She knows how I feel."

"Bruh, she doesn't!" She poked Derrick in the head. "You have something to say?"

"Naw, I'm good."

"Derrick!"

Derrick was quiet as a mouse. He must have inherited his punk gene from his momma because there was no punk in her.

"So Kirk, what if JJ has another guy she likes? What are you going to do?"

"Beat his ass till he leaves sis. JJ is mine."

Kirk definitely inherited that gene from their father. Never take no for an answer and never give up on something they wanted, even when it was actually out of reach. If her brothers fight over a girl, she felt sorry for softie Derrick.

Soon as they walked into the house from the side entrance, Cory was there in swim trunks and nothing else. The man was perfection. Everything about him was sexy, from his eyes, to his nose, his lips, his neck, that chiseled chest and abs, the bulge in his pants and the man even had sexy ass toes. She wanted to stand there and watch him like he was a statue at a museum.

"Let me help you with your things, Ms. Bonnie," Cory said when he saw her with the bags in her hands. He went to take them from her but she pushed them toward Derrick.

"No, my brothers can get them." She pushed the bags she held toward Derrick, who already had his hands full. Kirk was already loaded down with bags. "Take those up to the baby's room. Where are my girls?"

"Out at the pool, I was about to-" Cory started but she cut him off..

"Cool. Let me change, I will join them." She looked over Cory. "Will you join us?"

Her brothers weren't around, it was just the two of them and he seemed nervous. "You want me to?"

"Of course I do."

"I mean...but...I'm just the help Ms. Bonnie-"

"What? Cory, come on, I consider you more than that. And stop calling me Ms. Bonnie." She smiled at him. "Is this about the kiss the other day?"

He was quiet for a moment, before he answered. "I don't want you to think I overstepped my boundaries."

"I kissed you...and I wanted to kiss you."

"I know...I shouldn't have let you. I work for you, Bonnie. I know my place, and it's not with someone like you."

"Like me? Because of my money?"

"Well...I mean...yes! You're you and I'm...me."

She smiled, leaned a bit closer to him. "But I like you. And I mean, I really like you. What's wrong with that? We're two grown-ass people. The way I was raised, if I want something, go after it and get it. So let's not beat around the bush about it Cory. Do you find me attractive?"

He grinned at her. "I don't think there's a man alive who doesn't."

She waved his comment away. "But that's just a face people see, you've gotten to know me. I'm a bitch. I have no qualms saying that I am. What do you think of the person you've gotten to know?"

"Besides being drop-dead gorgeous?" He was staring deep in her eyes as he talked but she kept her focus on the words coming out his mouth, not the thick lips she wished were kissing all over her body. "Also intelligent, strong, independent. And I think you will be a great mother."

This man stood in front of her looking good enough to eat, but she had control of her body. She wanted more from Cory than a roll in the bed, although, she knew that would be amazing.

"Okay, okay Mr. Charmer. Let me go change so I can meet you guys at the pool." She started to walk away but he reached out and grabbed her hand, turning her to him.

"Bonnie, wait." He pulled her close, his hand brushed her cheek, then he leaned in to kiss her. Those lips she was mesmerized by, were planted on her, and they were soft like a pillow. He kissed her with a hunger that raged through his body, sending that energy to hers. Their tongues doing a dance, she slid her hand up his bare chest as they continued kissing each other passionately.

She had never been kissed like that in her life. It felt like he literally swept her off her feet. When he moved away, she wanted more, but she controlled her raging hormones.

"I just want you to know, I'm not like any other guy. I know how special you are."

Then he walked away and left her fanning herself because she was so hot.

She made it to her room and had to take a quick cold shower to cool herself down before she dressed in her two-piece swimsuit. Belly huge and out there but she had zero fucks, and if Cory had none, she was all in.

Would he want her pregnant with another man's baby? It didn't seem to matter to him.

When she made it to the pool, JJ, Tink, Derrick, and Kirk were in the pool playing with a inflatable ball. JJ and Kirk were on a team, with Tink and Kirk. Cory was in the pool cheering them on. She sat on the edge, dipping her feet in and watching them.

Cory looked at her and smiled. She almost blushed like a schoolgirl.

"Bon, you want to play with us?" JJ said through a fit of giggles. "Cory can play on the other team."

"The way my belly is, I can't fuck with you wild people like that." She rubbed her stomach protectively. Since finding out she had gestational diabetes and changed her diet, she felt a lot better and had not felt sick again.

"Come on girl, we don't need any help, I got this." Kirk grabbed her in a bear hug. "Let your man be the man."

"Kirk put me down!"

"Say I'm the man," he said, tickling her sides as she giggled.

"No! Stop!"

"Hey bro, she said put her down!" Derrick shouted out.

Oh, it was going to go down like this? She pulled off her sunglasses so she could watch this like a tennis match.

"Come on JJ, let's just go somewhere private," Kirk said, trying to kiss her, but she pushed him away then smacked him across the face

"No!" She swam away from him and jumped out of the pool and into the house in tears, just as Derrick rushed over to Kirk and punched him in the face.

"Didn't she tell you to let her go? What the fuck is wrong with you treating her like that?"

Kirk grabbed his jaw. "What the fuck?"

She did not think her little brother had it in him. Wow, she was impressed he finally manned up. "Derrick you just need to tell him."

"Tell me what?" Kirk rubbed his jaw, and she was shocked he didn't retaliate.

"I'm with JJ," Derrick said. "We're together, so back the fuck off!"

Derrick got out of the pool to find JJ she was sure. Kirk's face was stone hearing that. Tink and Cory were still in the pool, silent, watching it all go down. She knew Tink knew about the relationship, but she was unsure if Cory did. He was afterall, friends with Kirk.

"Yo Kirk, you all right man?" Cory asked him.

Kirk looked to her. "Did you know?"

"Of course I knew, that's my best friend and my brother. And let them be bro, I swear. All the damn women in L.A. find you one."

Kirk shook his head, rushing out of the pool himself, but not going in the house, he headed toward the beach.

"Let me go check on my girl," Tink said, also getting out of the pool.  "You two going to be okay?"

She made a face at her. "Why wouldn't we?"

Tink smiled. "I can feel the sexual tension between you two. Purrrrrrr!" Tink skipped off and she blushed, looking over at Cory.

"What sexual tension?" she playfully said to Cory.

"Yeah, not us two," he said, coming to sit beside her. "I feel bad for Kirk, he really liked JJ.  He was telling me about her before I started working here."

"Then why didn't he make a move? I mean, she liked him too, Derrick just moved first."

Cory shook his head. "Naw, bro messed up the bro code. It's like he called dibs, so Derrick should have fallen back. But...I'll stay out of it. I can understand why Kirk didn't come to her smoother. Sometimes men get intimidated by beautiful women."

She nudged his shoulder with hers. "You're not."

"I've been locked up for thirteen years!"

"How did you...ummm...did you have a girlfriend?"

"When I went in, yes. She didn't agree with what I did so that ended."

"And you..."

"Haven't been with a woman in over thirteen years."

God damn! She would go crazy and be climbing walls, climbing on anything that resembled a  cock, a tongue, a finger. He had better control than her.

"Do you know how sexy you are? You could have gotten out and jumped on every single woman you saw. One look at you and panties would drop."

"Believe me, I've been tempted, but..." He reached out and took her hand in his. "I just want to wait for the right girl...the right time...make it special."

Well, damn! She metaphorically raised her hand in her head to volunteer. They could fuck right there by the pool.

Before she volunteered herself, he stopped her with a kiss. "I have feelings for you and I want to show you I can be the man you need. Not those other guys that have been coming around here. I want more than that from you Bonnie, I can wait."

Her insides were on fire and this man was talking about waiting?

"It's because I'm big as a house?"

He gave her that teeth white as snow smile. "Naw, I heard pregnant women are big ole freaks."

She laughed because no lie was told.

"I think we need time to get to know each other. Our wants, our desires...everything. Sex is nice, but a spiritual understanding of each other is better."

"I know Jesus! Amen! Hallelujah! Now I want to break a bed with you!"

He laughed as he moved around her so that he was sitting behind her and she was between his leg. He took her hands and placed them over her belly.

"This is time you should be bonding with your son. Your special time only you can give him. I'm not going anywhere." He softly kissed her neck and tingles ran up and down her spine, then he whispered. "Don't worry, we can break some beds later."

A/N: A lot of action going on. It's good that we're over the "who's the daddy?" stress and I can work on Bonnie and Cory's relationship. It's so sweet! When I wrote this, I was giving myself chills writing Cory. He's a man's man! Whew child, Bonnie needs this.

But sorry, just as you guys get to like Bonnie, she's about to be a bad girl next chapter.