Temptation: The Aftermath by Victoria Christopher Murray

Author:Victoria Christopher Murray [Murray, Victoria Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Brown Girls Publishing
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

chapter 19

Jasmine

I stared at my phone as if the blame belonged to my cell. I’d been stood up.

For almost five years, Hosea and I had been doing these spa dates, the second Saturday of every month. We had a standing appointment: a couple’s massage, then time together in either the private Jacuzzi or steam room, depending on our mood. It had been Hosea’s idea to have these Saturdays together.

“Darlin’, the kids are getting older and are more demanding of our time, Pops is stepping back from his responsibility and dumping it all on me ….”

I cracked up at his choice of words. His father, Samuel Bush had been the lead pastor for City of Lights for more than fifty years. Now that his son had stepped into his calling, my fatherin-law had stepped into semi-retirement with the greatest of ease. “And, I don’t want us to ever lose each other. We may only get one day a month, but that day needs to be all about us, just you and me, together. Always.” “That is so sweet, baby.”

“I mean it. We need to make time for each other. This has to be a priority because life can mess up relationships, and that’s never going to happen to us. I love you way too much.”

I had to wipe away a couple of tears.

“Plus, you need me, Darlin’, you need me so much.”

That was when my tears mixed with laughter. I cried because I still couldn’t believe how much God had blessed me with this man after all the dirt I’d done in my life with other men who didn’t belong to me. And, I laughed because … well, Hosea always made me laugh. And his words were true. I did need him … and I needed our second Saturdays. That was why I did everything to never miss a date, even scheduling my out-of-town trips around these days that were meant for us alone.

And Hosea did the same — he had never canceled once. Never!

Before today.

I sighed now, as I finally tucked my phone back into my purse. There was no need to keep staring at it, as if that would change the fact that Hosea had canceled … because of Kyla. What was going on with her that was so important? That took precedence over me? As soon as I asked myself those questions, I snatched them back. Really? I was asking that when her husband had been shot in the head? When, while his chances of surviving were improving, he was still in the most critical of conditions?

Those had to have been the dumbest questions I’d ever asked because the doctors still had no idea how much damage had been done to Jefferson’s brain. No one knew what Jefferson would look like, what he would be like when he was finally awakened.

So, how could I ask what was going on?

Except … it felt like I needed to ask that question. It felt like there was so much more going on than what I knew.

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