If Tomorrow Never Comes by Kingsley Mariah

Author:Kingsley, Mariah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mariah Kingsley Production
Published: 2023-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

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I was never late, and the look on Charlene’s face was absolute relief. “I sent a text. Did you get it?” I asked in greeting.

“Yeah, but you said your sister came by unannounced. I was worried that it didn’t go well.”

“It went.” I didn’t really want to talk about but Charlene needed to know I was okay. “She wants me to move back. It seemed everyone in the family has left and she was the only one left. I have no reason to go back. She wants to be there. That’s her choice, but she won’t guilt me into staying.”

“You never talk about her. Were you close?” That was a loaded question. We went through hell together, but she was on the side of the devil. In my eyes, she was the devil.

“You would think that we would be, but we weren’t. She blamed me for what her husband did to me. None of her children lived, and she hated Summer did.” I felt sorry for her losing her children. She got pregnant five times, and none of them lived. She never talked about the miscarriages, she only would go to the hospital alone, and come back with no baby. With every loss, she became more bitter. “I don’t know how to feel about her, honestly. I remember the sister that tucked me in at night. I loved her. The women she became, I have no feelings for.” That was the short version of a very long relationship. “How are things going with Chance?”

The quick change of subject had her face in confusion. “Things are fine. You don’t want to talk about your sister, do you?”

“Not really. I would rather talk about things that will happen, instead of things I can’t change.” I looked into her eyes and saw the understanding. The server came and gave me a menu. I looked it over. Although my stomach was in knots, I would eat. I looked back at Charlene and saw that she had contemplative eyes on me. “What?”

“Rarely do I think of the things that you have endured. Often I wonder what secrets that you had to have to live this life? How you got through. You don’t talk about god, so what kept you going. I just wonder what made you.”

I put the menu down. Looked into the eyes of a woman that was my heart’s daughter. “God didn’t grant me his smile often. So I can’t praise him for what he did to for me. He left me in a den of vipers. The only thing that got me through was Summer. When she was a child, just her being there with me was enough. I could get through the long nights with her father knowing that she would be up the next morning. When she left, keeping her safe was my only thought. Seeing her again, knowing there was nothing else that could hurt her is what I live for. Well one of the things I live for.

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