Imperfect by Ari Reavis

Author:Ari Reavis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, interracial romance, romantic suspense, blind date, black love, pregnancy, prison
Publisher: Ari Reavis
Published: 2021-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Watching that car drive away with Damir in the backseat is a sight I’ll never forget. I’m still staring down the street long after the police cruiser has turned, waiting for the car to somehow come back, waiting for that bastard cop to bring Damir back to me. Waiting for something, anything, to show me that none of this is real, that Damir wasn’t just handcuffed, beaten by the police, and then pushed into a car and driven away from me. But my heart, my aching heart that feels like it’s being crushed more with each breath, is making me confront the truth. That all of that happened, and much worse is to come.

Two female officers are on the side of me, still talking, but their voices sound like white noise in my ears. What can they have to say anyway, the same things they’ve been telling me since the moment I got out of the car. To calm down, that I shouldn’t make things worse for myself. And when I demanded to know what was happening, because no, I wasn’t getting back in the damn car while I could see the officers hitting Damir and slamming him into the car, all they kept repeating was that Damir was under arrest for murder. Stanley’s murder.

I swallow, finally looking away from the end of the dark street. My head swims with confusion, with sadness, with anger. This isn’t how this night was supposed to go. Me and Damir should be eating dinner right now, out on a date. Not him on his way to the police station and me having to go home alone. I bring my hand to my cheeks, wiping the tears away, and realize just how badly they’re shaking. Crossing my arms to pretend they’re not trembling, a voice breaks through my haze.

“...the station.”

“What?” I croak before clearing my throat.

Already it feels so raw from crying, from screaming at the officers who were hurting Damir to leave him alone, from yelling at the officers next to me to fuck off when they kept warning me that I’d be arrested as well if I didn’t settle down.

“I said we need you to come down to the station,” the younger officer repeats.

In an instant, I switch off every other emotion to let my mind focus on what I need to do and say next. You don’t grow up in Newport without knowing how to interact with police. Without knowing your rights, even if there, like seemingly here, those rights get violated anyway.

“Am I under arrest?” I ask in a monotone voice.

“No, but—”

“Then I’m free to go.” I close the passenger door I’ve been standing in this entire time and begin to walk around the car.

“Better you come with us, then we have to come looking for you,” the older officer says.

I stop, looking at her over my shoulder. “Are you threatening me?”

“I’m just trying to help you help yourself. You were just in a vehicle with someone arrested for murder.

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