More to Life by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Author:ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2019-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

My husband very rarely got angry, and when he did, he hardly ever verbalized his anger. But those who knew him well could definitely tell when he was angry. And right now, Charles was beyond angry; he was at the highest level of pissivity.

His lips were pursed, his stare was hard as he looked straight ahead on the road. He navigated onto Interstate 85, and I wondered if he was going to remain this way all the way to Spelman.

It may have been a sunny seventy degrees in Atlanta, but a January chill was definitely filling the car.

I don’t know how I expected Charles to react to my desire for a divorce, especially since it had only been three days since I had dropped that bombshell. I definitely didn’t think he’d take this trip to Spelman with me and our daughter. But he loved Anika more than he hated me, at this moment, and he didn’t want to disappoint her.

I looked back over my shoulder and took a quick glance at our daughter. She’d slept the entire flight from Houston, and now, with AirPods in her ears, she was oblivious to the silent discourse. How could she notice when Drake screamed through her headphones?

I turned my attention back to Charles, whose eyes were still in the same place.

“So,” I began, and then searched for words to follow. I said, “What do you think about Eric’s new coach?” I was desperate to fill the car with some type of conversation.

That was a reach, I knew, because he’d raved about the coach when he was first hired a few months ago, but what else was I supposed to talk about? I was sure that Charles hadn’t said five sentences to me over the past few days. The only saving grace was that Judy was still on her cruise. I couldn’t imagine what life would have been like if she had been here.

I’d managed to deal with the deafening silence by staying in the guest room—I’d told Anika that her dad had been snoring badly lately—and just keeping my distance from my husband.

But this—this was brutal. Being this close to him for these hours was difficult. I knew this trip would be hard, but I hadn’t envisioned it like this.

My eyes were still on Charles, but he only glanced at me for a moment before he returned his eyes to the road. I sighed as I just turned to stare out the window. There was nothing else left to do, but wait this trip out.

I wanted to raise my hands and shout “hallelujah” when we rolled through the gates of Spelman’s campus. We’d hardly moved a block when Anika said, “Wait, Daddy! Stop!”

Charles hit the brakes and both of us turned to Anika, startled. “What’s wrong?” I asked.

She opened her door. “There’s Kelli and Rachel and Andrea,” she said as she bounced out of the car.

Our eyes followed her as she ran to Kelli, the art major who had come to our house to visit, and two other girls I didn’t know.

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