Juice
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How did you feel about the friendship/sisterhood Tia had with her line sisters? Which of the girls could you relate to the most?
Was Tia using Coop from the beginning?
How would you have handled the situation at your wedding, had your future husband called you his ex’s name in front of everyone?
Did you enjoy the book, and would you recommend to another reader?
No, for real…CARMEN is up next! Soooo excited to share her testimony. I was going through a lil’ something and Tia was more relatable for me to write about, but Carmen’s story is a beautiful.
Turn the page for an exclusive sneak peek into Love Drought 3: CARMEN!
“What are you saying?” her husband of seven years asked her for the fourth time or maybe it was the twelfth. Honestly, she had tuned out minutes ago. Her mind was already on the new life ahead of her. She was shedding this dead weight and repairing her broken soul. By herself. All Alone. The next chapter of life would be by her lonesome, and she was eager to pack her things and get going.
“Carmen,” he called her name with more force than he had ever used in his little life.
That’s how she viewed everything concerning him, little. His little hands and feet, his little voice, little dreams, little ambition and not to mention his penis as well. He was small and in the past seven years of their awful marriage she had allowed him to minimize her as well.
She used to be full of life and still…on the outside looking in, things were…great.
But she wasn’t happy.
And where she was right now in life, it didn’t fulfill her. She wanted more, she expected more. Marrying at eighteen just because she was pregnant wasn’t her plans, but her parents. She refused to allow them or anyone else to dictate her doings.
Carmen was divorcing her “little husband”, moving to California, and not looking back.
She had plans to become the best at whatever the fuck she decided she wanted to be.
That was her plan.
“I’m saying that I don’t want to be with you anymore. I can’t do this,” she shook her head as she looked down at the ring. The ring that everyone fawned over. The ring that people swore was the prettiest jewel they ever saw, yet she wasn’t impressed.
No thought went into the purchase.
In fact, he lacked empathy. He didn’t know what she liked or disliked, he knew nothing. Carmen had to get out of there.
Divorce or separation, she didn’t give a damn what he decided on, she was leaving regardless.
“Why?” he was curious to know what he had done wrong for her to come home from the grocery store and drop this bomb on him.
He was watching television, drinking a beer and eating peanuts…waiting on dinner to get done. It was his simple routine after work on Monday. So, what was the issue?
“You don’t work. What are you going to do Carm?” he reminded her.
That was one thing she definitely wouldn’t miss, the way he said her name. The way he looked down at her. The way he spoke to her as if she was beneath him.
From what she had learned in the past few weeks about marriage had her eyes and heart wide open. Marriage was about balance. He didn’t do that for her, he didn’t level her out. Instead, he was a weight so damn big that she couldn’t breathe.
“I don’t know yet, nor do I care. What I do know is that I’m getting out of here…tonight.”
He huffed, “Oh yeah, I bet.” He wasn’t about to keep feeding into this shit. Carmen wasn’t going anywhere.
She nodded her head saying, “Okay.” She felt the same way; no longer would she stand before him wasting time. So, she backpedaled out of his man cave and walked down the hallway and made a left into their bedroom. She was ready to pack her things and head out.
Her son was at her brother’s house and earlier they spoke of her plans. He told her there was no rush in picking him up and Carmen thanked him a million times over.
There wasn’t anything of major importance that she just had to have tonight. Her plan was to return while he was at work at a later day in the week to really pack up her belongings.
She grabbed her toiletry bag and tossed a few pair of panties in a Victoria Secret overnight bag. After snatching her phone charger out of the socket behind the nightstand on her side of the bed, she picked up her bible and headed for the steps.
This was the happiest she had been in seven years. Seriously.
With every step she took, a lone tear fell down her face as she picked her head up and counted down the seconds until this miserable ass marriage was behind her.
“Baby?” her husband called her name from the top of the steps.
She held her breath as she turned around to see what the hell he wanted for the last time.
POW! POW!
POW! POW!
POW! POW!
She felt the shots as the bullets pierced her body in different places. Her husband hadn’t missed not one shot.
Images of her giving birth to her son, the degree that she never received because he rather her stay home and raise their child, and memories of the life she always envisioned for herself were the last things that crossed her mind before she crashed backwards and closed her eyes as her heart beat stopped…
Coming Summer ‘19
Carmen: The LOVE DROUGHT Series Book 3.
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