Down On My Knees by McGlothin Victor

Author:McGlothin, Victor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2012-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

18

All Bets Are Off

By the time André made it home from Skyler’s varsity basketball game, Grace had worn a path in the den. She was serious about spending more quality time with him, but she also craved harmless interaction with normal adult males, if she could get it. The local Dallas graduate chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi threw in with their upper-crust brothers from two bordering suburban bedroom communities, combiningtheir efforts to stage an exciting casino-styled extravaganza.The proceeds were given to charity, but hundreds of single women traipsed through the star-studded affair to try their luck in the dating game, which started the minute they walked in the door. Grace loved the people-watching aspect it presented, because that was the only time she could see high-class African-American men and women drink too much and reduce themselves to heat-seeking enthusiasts. She did not want to miss that.

While wringing her hands over the decision to ask André if he wouldn’t mind going with Skyler to watch Allen Foray take on Los Angeles from the first row, her son hit the door with a ravenous appetite. “Hey Ma,” he said, dropping his backpack at the door. The look in his eyes, she’d seen before. The poor boy was starving. Within moments, he had his head stuck in the refrigerator and palms resting on his skinny knees. “Mama, do you still have some of that lasagna left over from Tuesday?”

“Yes, honey, it’s in the Tupperware container on the bottomshelf,” she informed him. “Tell you what, why don’t I heat it up for you while you stop by the restroom to wash up? Go on now. I have something important to talk to you about.”

“Thanks, Ma, stack it high. I’ll be right back.” No sooner than André dashed off, Grace felt like a deadbeat parent for even thinking about putting him off on someone else just so she could have a grown-up evening at the Grande Hotel ballroomwith three hundred of the most handsome successful men in the area. Shame on her.

A steaming plate of lasagna was waiting on the counter when André returned. Grace noted his carefree attitude when he straddled the bar stool to dig in. He closed his eyes and placed both hands in front of his face like Grace had taught him when he was three years old. She took a deep breath and blushed with pride, thinking back on how far both of them had come, on their own.

André shoveled food into his mouth, one forkful right after another. He smiled at Grace, who was continually lookingon and still bursting with pride. It had been a number of years since she’d thought about André’s father, who had once loved her like a hammock loves to sway in the wind until he decided that finding himself and making it big as an attorney didn’t include her bearing his child. Grace was in college then, pregnant and on the Dean’s list. When she graduated with honors, André was the newborn in the

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