“That was delicious,” Arianna groaned as she fell back onto the couch.

“It was, but it’ll never be as good as Mabel’s cooking.”

“That reminds me. We need to talk about this Mammy business.”

“I see you’ve been talking to Jynelle,” Reggie huffed. “And for the record, Mabel wasn’t my Mammy.”

“My bad. My bad. I didn’t mean to offend. How long was Mabel with your family?”

“Since I was born,” Reggie admitted with a slight smile on his face. “My mother passed away before I turned one. They found out she had cancer when she was pregnant with me. She went without chemo, and by the time she had...