Heartbeat by Tara Ellis

Author:Tara Ellis [Ellis, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: United States, Romance, African American, Women's Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Amazon: B016R28NKI
Publisher: Words on Paper
Published: 2015-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Charlie

I couldn’t even get in the door good before Rick was in my face. He had flowers in his hand and an apology on his lips but his eyes betrayed him. He wasn’t sorry for what he’d done, he was just sorry his ass got caught.

He knew my car was in the garage and here I was just coming home in my freakum dress and sky high heels to match. His eyes went from my head to my feet and I would have paid to be able to read his mind at that very moment.

I smiled in his face because I knew it was eating him alive wondering where I’d been all night. It felt good as hell.

“Charlie! I was hoping we could talk.”

I turned around just as I was kicking off my extremely high heels. “Oh, so now you want to talk? You leave this house for a week and a half and now you pop up and I’m supposed to be overjoyed that now you want to talk?”

He watched me as I kicked off my shoes. I saw his facial expression change as soon as he took another account of the outfit I was wearing. He looked me up and down as he thought aloud, “Your car is still in the garage…where you coming from dressed like that?”

I shot him a look, “I know you’re not questioning me.” I stepped out of the skin tight bandage dress right in front of him. I walked toward my bathroom in my sexy underwear. I wanted to show him what he would never ever get to touch again.

He followed me into the bathroom and sat at my vanity as I showered. He covered his face with his hands and shook his head. “Charlie, I made a horrible mistake. A terrible mistake and if I could take it back I would.”

“But you can’t’,” I said. As I bathe, I hated how my resolve seemed to go down the drain with the soapy water. No matter how hard I tried to act, I loved this man. I’d loved him so long and so hard I knew that love wouldn’t go away anytime soon.

“I stayed away to give you time to calm down,” he said. “I wasn’t with another woman.”

“And I’m supposed to believe that?” I looked at him through the steamy shower glass. Never in my life did I think it was possible to love and hate someone this much at the same time. “I really don’t care, Rick. I really don’t. I couldn’t give a fuck where you lay your head anymore.” I paused before I dropped the real bomb on him. “I met with a divorce attorney.”

His head snapped in my direction. “You did what?”

He’d heard me fine so I didn’t bother repeating myself.

“Charlie, you’re thinking about divorcing me?” His voice cracked.

“Thinking about? Nigga, I am!” I turned the shower off and stepped out. I quickly wrapped a towel around my body when I caught Rick looking at my naked body.

“Is there someone else?” He wanted to know.

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