I Do... NOT by Kimolisa Mings

I Do... NOT by Kimolisa Mings

Author:Kimolisa Mings [Mings, Kimolisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-06-01T18:30:00+00:00


Chapter Twenty-Seven

I didn’t call Toya, between meeting with Weiss, then with Mr. Masterson and working on the case, I never got around to making the call. It was Toya who had called me. It was my first evening home instead of at work and I was curled up with a book, trying to distract my mind from work.

Picking up the phone and seeing the name displayed, I felt a prick of guilt, I answered the call with much apprehension.

“So everything is set and, to Luisa’s insistence, no male strippers were ordered,” Toya didn’t even say hello. She reeled off the plans for the evening, not giving me an inch to tell her the bad news. That is until she said, “So when will you be coming over?”

My lips formed around the first word, but nothing came. The quickly crafted excuse, reason, whatever was blocked by the guilt that was now stuck in my throat.

“You’re not coming,” a coolness replaced the gaiety in Toya’s voice. “Who is it? Julian or Clark?”

“Clark,” I whispered. His name undid the jam and my words rushed forward until they ended in the trickle of “I’m sorry.”

One would think Toya was the type of person who ranted and raved, but she was scarier than that. It was the silence between her measured sentences that chilled one’s blood. The way her words were targeted and shot straight to one’s heart with the precision of a special forces sniper. It was impossible to never anger or disappoint Toya, all I could do was brace myself.

“I really hoped you would have taken this bet seriously,” she said at last. “How is this different from when you were with Malachi or Jason or what’s his name?”

Craig, I thought but dared not say.

“This bet was an opportunity for you to explore who you are,” she continued. “To understand what you needed for you, not getting caught up in another relationship that would lead to what happened with Malachi.”

“What happened with Malachi turned out to be a good decision,” I tried to defend myself.

“And what about Jason and ….”

“Craig.”

“You know you sabotaged those relationships,” Toya didn’t hold back. “Tell me I’m lying.”

I could, the men of my past paraded before me, holding up signs with the reasons we broke up blazed across them.

“What is it? Date three with Clark?”

My silence was answer enough.

A bitter laugh tumbled through the phone, “Instead of ending up with one man, you end up with two.”

Excuses could have been said. The tickets were impossible to get. It was a sold out show. It was more than a date. They blew through my mind like dry leaves and they would never do. “I’ll make it up to you.”

“I know,” Toya said with a sigh. “You always do, but it isn’t us who you are short changing. It’s yourself, it’s these men who don’t know that it can never be forever with you.”

“I never promised them forever,” I found a piece of my backbone.

“Did you state otherwise? Can you honestly say they are not taken with you? I’ve seen Julian and I can only imagine with Clark.



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