Chasing Shadows by Jamel Cato

Author:Jamel Cato [Cato, Jamel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-07T22:00:00+00:00

When the door closed behind the detectives, Eve said, “You shouldn’t speak to the Police like that. It’s dangerous.”

“Why? I’m innocent.”

She stared at me. “Have you ever looked in the mirror? You’re a six-foot-two black man. Innocence is the hashtag they will type in your memory on Twitter.”

My uncle and my cousin had told me the same thing.

“What a world.”

“Please tell me your hot date is not with Patricia Hollenbeck.”

Before I could tell her, my ex-wife Darlene stuck her head around the edge of the door. When she saw that I was well enough to sit up in bed, some of the palpable concern in her eyes dissipated.

I felt Eve transition away.

“Thank God,” Darlene said, approaching my bed. “I was so worried about you. They told me you had been injured by a car bomb. I took the next flight out.”

Even though we’ve been divorced for almost five years, Darlene is still my emergency contact everywhere I need an emergency contact.

She gently patted my torso, checking that all my parts were still there.

“Lower,” I said with a mischievous smile.

She stopped. “Are you injured?”

“No.”

She changed that by slapping me hard across the face. “You had me worried to death. When they said it was a bomb, I thought…” She turned away to hide her tears. “I thought…”

I rose from the bed and pulled her back toward me, wrapping my arms around her. “I’m so sorry, Darlene. I’m sorry I worried you. There really was a bomb and it really did detonate right below me.”

“Then how come you don’t have a scratch?” she sobbed.

I sighed and spent the next two hours telling her all the truths I knew.

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