Consequences by Sasha Campbell

Author:Sasha Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-02-20T05:00:00+00:00

“Wow! If I hadn’t seen it for myself I never would have imagined.”

Thirty minutes later, I linked my arm through Jrue’s and beamed up at him as we exited the examination room. “I told you.”

The experience had gone exactly the way I had hoped it would. Dr. Brown saw so many couples every day that it didn’t even dawn on her that Jrue wasn’t Leon. As soon as Jrue saw my baby on the screen, he was captivated. And when Dr. Brown asked if we wanted to know the sex, we took one look at each other and agreed. I’m having a girl! Jrue was so stunned it no longer mattered that he wasn’t going to have a son. Now he wanted a little princess, who would have her daddy wrapped around her finger. Trust me, I couldn’t have timed it better myself.

“I think this calls for a celebration,” he suggested with that big silly grin still on his face.

“I agree.”

We were walking through the lobby on the way out to his car when I heard someone calling Jrue’s name. Turning around, I found a woman standing in front of the elevators. I looked up at him to see if he recognized her and the look on his face said he did. I never thought a dark man could turn white, but he looked as pale as a ghost.

“Jrue . . . who’s that?” I asked.

He dropped my arm like I had leprosy and strolled over to the slender woman who was mean-mugging me. I was seconds away from asking her what the hell she was looking at.

“Hazel,” he said with a grin, then hugged her.

“Jrue, aren’t you going to introduce me to your friend?” she asked while looking in my direction. I was growing tired of her staring me down.

He whipped around and I had never seen him look as scared before in his life. Like he wished my ass would just disappear. Well, I’m sorry, but I wasn’t going to be ignored.

“I’m Trinette,” I said with attitude. “And you are?”

She brought a hand to her malnutrition waist. “Hazel. His wife’s sister.”

I looked her up and down and within seconds saw the resemblance. She was tall and skinny with a wide forehead and more moles on her face than makeup could hide. I was tempted to reach inside my purse and give her a business card to a good dermatologist.

“Uh . . . Hazel, Trinette and I . . . work together. She was having contractions and since her husband is out of the country on business, I rushed her in to see her doctor,” he lied, and looked over at me pleading with his eyes for me to play along.

I was so sick of playing these games. If he’d just tell his wife the truth, we wouldn’t be going through all these changes. But I sighed and decided that I would be the bigger woman, which, as skinny as Hazel was, wasn’t hard to do.

“That’s right. I’ve been having cramps all day.

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