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A Mommy For Papi And Me

Chapter 26

Stephanie's day at the shop had been pretty okay, but it got much better when a delivery from a local florist came and she received 3 dozen sweet smelling roses from Carlos, along with a box of fine Belgium chocolates. It didn't help that Brittany was with her, along with Lula and Valarie. The three other women squealed loudly as Stephanie read the card out to them.

"To my Babe, I hope you're having a good day, I hope you enjoy the chocolates with your friends, from Carlos." Stephanie read, placing the roses on the counter and opening the box of chocolates, "Well ladies, there's like 50 chocolates in here, we should enjoy them…"

"Oh, this is too fucking cute," Brittany said to Lula as they ate chocolates, "Chocolates, roses, random gifts, and little notes full of affection and love."

Stephanie blushed and muttered, "Please, you two behave…"

"Plus he's feeding us," Lula said as she popped another truffle in her mouth , "He knows the way to Stephanie's heart is to feed her best friends."

Brittany and Lula giggled madly and leaned against each other as they ate their candy. Stephanie shook her head and then turned to pull out the new line of panties, bras and other lingerie that Brittany, Heidi, Diesel and Lula would model. Her lingerie maker outdid himself with her designs, these would be a hit! Even though there were no model pictures on her new website, she had made over 2,000 in the 48 hours it had been open, there were orders from Europe and even Asia and the reviews on the site were stellar, she had yet to get a negative review. She would get more when she got her models in their things.

"Brittany!" Stephanie said as she rounded on said woman, "Put those chocolates down! If you eat one more, I'm going to karate chop you in the neck!"

Brittany yelped and dropped the morsel, holding her hands up in surrender, her eyes wide. Stephanie pointed to Valarie and said, "You, pull down the blinds, Lula, you go get the wax…."

"Wax for what?!" Brittany whimpered as the women went and got the requested items, "Hey now, Stephanie, you're freaking me out a bit….this is worse than that time I tried that mushroom pizza that Lula let me have a slice of…. Who puts shrooms on a pizza?!"

"You," Stephanie said with a smile, pointing to Brittany, "Strip, now…."

"But…" Brittany said, hugging herself, "I'll feel so vulnerable…."

"Lula, Val, strip her," Stephanie said, digging through the piles of lingerie and pulling out a one piece, "And remove all the hair from her, except for the hair on her head."

"Hey now, this isn't what I signed up for!" Brittany squealed as she ran from the two, "I'm calling Lester! I don't want this!"

"Oh hush and take it like a man!" Stephanie said, as Lula caught Brittany, "We can't have any public hair showing in the pictures!"

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"So, you and Miss. Stephanie eh?" Lester asked Ranger, making the man roll his eyes and turn to his cousin, "What?"

"You sound like Stephanie and her friends," Ranger commented, earning a shrug from the man.

"What, I sleep with one of her friends and Tank sleeps with the other one!" Lester said turning to look at Tank, who nodded his head, "We hear things, you know, like how you're wooing Stephanie with all the nice things, and make us look like jerks!"

Carlos leaned back in his chair and asked, "How do I make you all look like fools?!"

"Well, Lula came to me, demanding to know why I don't send her flowers or chocolates or little notes of affections," Tank said, looking over to Ranger, who scoffed and resumed eating his pasta, "I'll have you know, she mutters curse words at me now, because I'm not as romantic as Papi, which is you!"

"And Brittany talks about how you use the child to help you out as well!" Lester said, waving his arms, "How can I compete with a cute four year old with lisp?!"

"You can't, that's how," Tank added to Lester's rant, "Face it, Ranger, you've out shined us, and we can't compete…"

"It's a kick to the balls that we get compared to hot and sexy all the time, I tried to get Brittany chocolates and she scoffed at me!" Lester rumbled, glaring at Ranger, who held his hands up, "We can't compare to the sexy single father."

"I did the same thing with Lula and some of her favorite flowers, I can never win," Tank said, turning to Lester, "We're always going to be second place, even with our women."

"Oh brother, I would have turned down your brunch invitation if this is what I'm exposed to, alright, you two, I do have a child with me," Ranger said, nodding over to Heidi, who sat in a booster seat, coloring and munching on fries, "I don't want her tainted by your displeasure."

"Oh, that's right, we should start them off early," Lester said, getting up and sitting beside Heidi, "Heidi, sweet heart, Uncle Tank and I have some things to tell you about, when it comes to men and dating."

"What's dating?!" Heidi asked, looking up from her homework, "Is it a fun thing?"

"Sure, it can be, when done right!" Lester said, leaning forward, "Heidi, when your friends talk about their men, don't compare your boyfriend to their boyfriends…."

Ranger chuckled at the adorable look of confusion on Heidi's face, "Boyfriend, do you mean a boy who is my friend?!"

"Sure, sure, let's go with that," Lester said, waving his hand in the air, as Heidi chewed on a piece of shrimp, "Look, Heidi, your boyfriend won't like it, he'll get sad, being compared to Mr. Perfect."

"Who is Mr. Perfect?" Heidi asked, looking over to Ranger, "Is he Papi? Cause Papi's the most perfect man in the whole world, Diesel said he's gonna marry me, but I'm going to marry Papi!"

"It's too late," Tank said with a groan, watching Heidi beam at Ranger, who laughed out loud, "She's been tainted."

"Well, what do you expect!" Lester said, waving to Ranger, "This is his child we're trying to change! It's a lost cause, why did we even bother?!"

Heidi giggled and looked over to Ranger, "Papi, Tank and Uncle Lester are so silly."

"They are, Bella," Ranger said running his hand on Heidi's head.

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"Perfect," Stephanie said, adjusting the straps on Brittany's shoulder, "Absolutely perfect! It's like it was made for you, woman. Am I a genius or what!?"

Brittany did a small twirl in the piece she wore and cooed, "I'm a star! Cupping her face and smiling, "A super model!"

"Uh…don't push it," Lula said as she fixed the hems, "There, and the heels you're wearing add to it!"

Stephanie stood back and admired her work. They had tucked Brittany in a short golden nightie with built in garters and bra. The bust of the nightie had a swirling pattern of white and amber gems and material was thin and flowing. There were cute golden bows on the part where the garters met the nightie and there were bows on the shoulder straps. All in all, Brittany looked innocently hot in the outfit.

"Perfect!" Stephanie said clapping her hands and looking at Brittany, "Now, you need to stay like that for two hours, we have a photo shoot at 4 and I don't want to mess this image up!"

"Oh no way! It's almost time for our mid afternoon second lunch!" Brittany said, walking over to phone as it went off, "We're going to the Rib place!"

"Well, you'll have to starve," Stephanie said, before turning to Lula, "You next, but uh…I think I'll let the photographer deal wit-"

"WHAT?!" Brittany exclaimed, making all the women in the shop jump, "No, don't tell me this, you do not tell me this!"

Stephanie turned to Lula and Valarie and then back to Brittany, who cursed loudly and then began to bark into the phone.

"No, Jeez, I'll be there soon, I have to call my body guard, please, for heaven's sake, don't tell me any other bad news!" Brittany said, before she hung up the phone and turned to Valarie, "You, call Tank, get back to the safe house, get the girls there as well."

Brittany rounded on Stephanie and Lula and said, "Lula, go with Tank and stick close to him, okay? Don't ask questions, just do it! Stephanie call Ranger and stick with him, I have to go down to the federal district court."

"What's going on?" Valarie asked Brittany, who tossed on her long pea coat.

"Steve has been killed in prison," Brittany said softly, making Valarie gasp, "Judge Walter has been killed off as well, I would call this a good thing, but it's not since the FBI thinks that he had ties to the POS, I have to go and get this all sorted out."

Brittany called up Lester and then said to the three women, "Lay low for a bit, maybe a week or so, Val, it's possible that you might end up in witness protection, since they're looking for you. I'll go make the arrangements with Beverly and Jeanne, I'll see you all in a bit."

With that, Brittany grabbed her purse and then walked out the shop and into the waiting black SUV. Stephanie turned to Valarie and asked, "Are you okay, Val?"

"I think I will be, but, goodness," Val said, looking at her sister, "I'm ready for this to end…"

"Me too," Lula said, crossing her arms and huffing, "Can't go out, even though I'm not a target…maybe I wanna go to a bar!"

"Well, you heard the lawyer," Stephanie said, getting out her phone, "I hope she doesn't mess that nightie up, it's a one of a kind."

"I hope she knows that she went out in a nightie, to go talk to the feds," Lula said, making Valarie and Stephanie giggle.

"This is going to put a hindrance on the photo shoot," Stephanie sighed, closing down the store and waiting for Carlos to pick up his phone, "How in the hell am I supposed to be successful, if I can't get past a terrorist group trying to kidnap my sister and her girls and then they trash my house, and to top it off, my model is in between this all! Can't we all get a break?!"

"Well, I mean, Val has a break, her deadbeat husband is dead, I mean, rest his soul, but he deserved it, he gave you the warts, ran off with the baby-sitter, took all the money and left you indebted to a terrorist group," Lula said to Valarie, who looked over to Lula, her eyes wide with surprise.

"You're right," Valarie said, tears brimming in her eyes, "That bastard did leave me to fend for myself! That dick! I hope he rots in hell, and I hope his pretty little tramp of a babysitter is there too!"

"Wow," Stephanie said, as she got a response back from Carlos, "I've never seen this side of your before, Val."

"A hanging's too good for him!" Lula said, wrapping her arm with Valarie's, "Come on, sister, let's go get wasted, Stephanie can watch the girls…."

"Now, wait a minute, I didn't agree to that," Stephanie said as Lula and Valarie planned their night, "Now wait a minute! It's Friday night, I wanna have fun too!"

"Nope, you have to watch the girls for us, we're getting drunk!" Valarie said before turning back to Lula, "Oh, I do love a good margarita…."

TBC….

Uh oh, looks like there are going to be three little girls to cause havoc in Casa De Manoso...please leave a review, they tend to make me write faster! One more day of school and then summer break! 8D