Down With the King of the South
Page 20
She picked up one of the denim dresses and walked over to me with it in her hands.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” she asked.
“Taylor, that’s her name? I saw her earlier at the hospital when I was leaving the doctors office with Taniya,” I said, and she nodded.
“Is she okay? God, please tell me you’re not saying that you think she was having a miscarriage. It’s too early for her to be going in labor. Shit! I’m going to call her,” she said and tried to walk away, but I grabbed her arm, pulling her closer to me.
“Choc, it ain’t that. I saw her leaving the OBGYN with another nigga. Her boyfriend at that,” I said, basically giving her a look and pleading with her to read between the lines because I didn’t want to be the one to have to say this shit to her.
“Wow! I didn’t expect her to move on so damn fast. We just buried Vonte! You know what? It’s fine! These young girls don’t know shit about loyalty any fuckin’ way,” she went on to say.
I knew she was angry. I could tell by the way she wouldn’t stay her ass in one place.
“Choc, don’t make me have to say this shit. You don’t see what I’m trying to tell you?” I asked, looking down at her.
She knew what I was trying to say because her eyes watered, she stopped moving, and she silently pleaded with me for us to not be on the same accord, but she knew. A tear dropped, and she looked at me the same way she did in that family room when the doctor came in and said that Vonte didn’t make it.
“What are you telling me, Toddrick? What?” she asked in a shaky voice.
I walked closer to her and grabbed her arms then looked her dead in her eyes.
“You don’t have a grandbaby on the way, shorty. The nigga she was with, that’s his baby,” I let her know.
From her facial expression, I knew from right then that I’d broken her. We were so close to getting Jashae fixed, and just like that, she was broken again!
To be continued
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