The Awesome Girl's Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men by Ernessa T. Carter

Author:Ernessa T. Carter [Carter, Ernessa T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Amazon Publishing

Apparently, Abigail and Caleb had been more than friends when they had worked on that movie together in Prague. Apparently, they had flirted and hinted and hugged and done everything but physically kiss, because Abigail had a boyfriend waiting for her back in Los Angeles. Apparently, Abigail had been so unsettled by her attraction to Caleb that she had invited me to the airport because she had known that we would get along. And though it pained her to see me with him, she wanted him to be happy.

But then they had kept in touch after I moved out. A phone call here, a lunch there. And when she had broken up with Benny, Caleb had called to tell her how sorry he was to hear about it. This had led to more phone calls and lunches. “That was it,” Abigail assured me.

However, that original attraction they had felt while in Prague—it was still there. But this time Caleb was the one in a serious relationship.

They were so drawn to each other, and Caleb didn’t want to cheat on me—he knew how much that would hurt me … “But I can’t settle for you, when I’m in love with her.”

I remember how he had assured me that he wasn’t hiding a girl at his apartment back when he wouldn’t allow me to come over, and my eyes narrowed. “Wait a minute, you were hiding a girl. But you weren’t hiding her in your apartment; you were hiding her in mine. The reason you always wanted to spend the night was because you wanted to be closer to her.”

From the way both of their faces turned red, I could see that I was right. And even more pieces fell into place. “That’s why you invited me to move in with you out of the blue, wasn’t it? You told her to leave Benny, and when she refused, you invited me to move in. Like a punishment. You were pretending to love me to get back at her.”

“No,” he said, standing up. “It wasn’t like that. I decided to see what I could have with you because you were available and into me. I had no idea this would happen down the line.”

Caleb had tears in his eyes, like having to do this was hurting him way more than it was hurting me. Abigail, who hadn’t met my eyes since I’d walked in, stood up and rubbed his back.

Funny, I thought in the long silence that followed this tortured reveal. I had been so desperate to never let a man disrespect me or cheat on me that I hadn’t ever considered the other possibility: getting thrown away. I’d had some vague notion that white men did this. Black men often cheated on their wives, like my father did, or refused to marry their long-suffering girlfriends and babies’ mamas, yes. But I had heard stories about white men coming home to the sixty-year-old woman who had raised his children and informing her that he was trading her in for a woman half her age and size.

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