he
was
all
wrong?
Had
what
Nicole
done
to
him
all
those
years
ago
driven
his
beliefs
that
a
husband
should
be
sole
provider
for
his
wife
and
family?
He
would
be
the
first
to
admit
that
because
of
Nicole’s
rejection,
he’d
always
wanted
to
prove
the
point
that
a
man,
highly
educated
or
not,
could
take
care
of
his
household.
His
father
had
done
it
and
had
raised
a
family
on
a
construction
worker’s
salary.
He
thought
of
his
brothers
and
their
wives.
Even
married
to
a
sheikh,
his
sister
Delaney
was
still
working
as
a
pediatrician
and
doing
one
hell
of
a
job
raising
their
son
Ari,
who
was
beginning
to
be
a
handful.
But
then
her
husband
Jamal
also
played
an
equally
important
role
in
raising
their
son.
Then
there
were
his
sisters-in-laws,
Shelly,
Tara
and
Madison.
Although
Shelly
and
Dare
were
the
only
ones
who
had
a
son,
eleven-year-old
AJ,
Storm
was
fairly
certain
that
if
Tara
and
Madison
were
to
get
pregnant,
they
wouldn’t
consider
giving
up
their
careers.
He
closed
his
eyes
and
remembered
the
scene
that
had
played
out
in
Jayla’s
living
room
last
night.
The
woman
he
loved
was
planning
to
let
another
man
get
her
pregnant
only
because
she
was
convinced
there
wasn’t
a
Mr.
Right
for
her.
She
actually
believed
there
wasn’t
a
man
who
could
and
would
understand
her
need
to
be
in
control
of
her
life.
He
opened
his
eyes
and
glanced
down
at
his
watch.
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