Have No Shame by Melissa Foster

Author:Melissa Foster [Foster, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00CC34O1E
Publisher: World Literary Press
Published: 2013-04-11T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Nine

After a month of livin’ in New York, I’m still gettin’ used to bein’ in public with Jackson and Joshua without bein’ gobbled up with fear for our safety. Sure, we still received the chin-snub from many, even some harsh comments, but a chin-snub and comments were a lot easier to take when you had friends like Darla, Bear, and Marlo, and a sister like Maggie, who snubbed and commented right back.

Although Daddy didn’t allow Jake to apply to Mississippi State when he’d found the application on Jake’s desk, he eventually agreed to allow him to take an art class at the community college. Maybe Maggie was right all along, and Daddy simply didn’t want to let Jake leave town.

Each time I called home, I yearned to speak to Daddy. It just about killed me each time that he refused to come to the phone. He told Mama to tell me he loved me, but he had yet to speak to me himself. I prayed every night that he might come around and allow us to find each other once again. I missed him, but when I look at my baby’s face, and I see the love he holds in his father’s eyes, I know I did the right thing, and I have no shame about my decision or those I love.

Jackson walked through the door of our tiny apartment and asked how my day was. It was a day like any other. I woke up next to the man I loved, nursed the baby I adored, and spent the entire day with our son, just waitin’ for his daddy to come home—on time, sober, and hungry to spend time with us.

“Perfect,” I answered.

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