Free CheckMate 4: Winner Takes All by Tiece

don’t come in here with that bullshit. I can’t help that your fiancé left your ass. Hell, you ain’t the only one with problems.”
     
    Rico frowned. “Who else got problems? I know the infamous Monica Hunter ain’t got no problems.”
     
    Monica glanced back at him with a slick roll of the eyes. “Everybody has problems. Just because they don’t show them, doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.” She said as she down on her plush couch inside of her entertainment room.
     
    Rico stood there for a moment. “Why you all relaxing and shit?” he pondered with an unsure look. “I just came to pick up Aiden and I’m out. Where is he at in his room?”
     
    “He’s not here. My sister and mom are in town so they came and got him for the day.” Monica said with an innocent bat of the eyes.
     
    “Why you didn’t tell me this before I got here?” Rico questioned.
     
    “I still needed to speak with you.”
     
    “We could’ve spoken over the phone.” He said feeling bothered.
     
    Monica had a feeling that he’d act this way. He’d been giving her the cold shoulder since Mona left and she figured that it wasn’t going to be as easy to get him to sleep with her. However, Mona may have made it easier for her to win him over by leaving.
     
    “You don’t have to snap at me, you know. I’m not the one that left you. Well, not yet anyway.”
     
    “What’s that supposed to mean?” Rico asked giving her the side eye.
     
    “Well,” she started. “You may as well have a seat for a second.”
     
    Lord, what is this woman about to say? I know she can’t be pregnant, so what’s the deal? He thought.  
     
    “Come on, Monica. Just spit it out.”
     
    “Well, Aiden and I may be moving to Florida to stay for good. I have some property down there that I inherited from my great-grandmother. It’s worth a lot of money.”
     
    “So, what does that have to do with you moving?” Rico questioned. “You’ve been handling your business from here without skipping a beat.”
     
    “Yeah but now, my dad wants me to be the face of this property. Meaning, he wants me around so that people will know who I am as a representation of what belongs to me and my family. I can’t really go into any other details right now, but I need you to know that this move might just happen within the next couple of months.”
     
    Rico sadly glanced over at her then dropped his head. “So, you’re taking my boy?”
     
    “Don’t act like that. I’m not taking him from you. You’re welcome to come visit us any time you want to. You can even come get him when you have lil breaks from work. I just have to do what’s best for me and him while securing our future. You seem to be so lost in what you got going on that I’m certainly not putting my eggs in that basket again.”
     
    “You never had your eggs in my basket.” Rico told her as he cut his eyes her way.
     
    “Hm,” Monica hummed followed by a long drawn out sigh. “Oh, but I did at one point. You were just too busy proposing to the other mother of your child and not paying any attention to me.”
     
    Rico shook his head. “You know it wasn’t like that.”
     
    “I don’t know what it was like. I know we used to fuck every now and then, but then you stopped that all together. What… do you think that I’m just going to sit around and wait for you?”
     
    “I never said that and I never asked you to.”
     
    “Well good; and since you put it that way then Aiden and I have no reason to stay.”
     
    Rico intently stared at her. At first he didn’t know what to say, but then he just said it. “I don’t want you to leave and take my son with you.”
     
    A part of Monica felt bad for him. She knew that he was hurting from the break-up with Mona, but at the end of the day he didn’t have those feelings for her.
     
    “You don’t have to take my son,” he said.
     
    “You can’t keep him. Your workload is too much. What else am I supposed to