The Perfect Christian by E. N. Joy

Author:E. N. Joy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2012-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five

“Willie, oh God, Willie?” Doreen cried just as soon as the guard walked her out to the visiting room where Willie was waiting on her. “A hundred thousand dollars? That judge set my bail at a hundred thousand dollars.” Doreen hadn’t even sat down yet when she started going on about the high bail the judge had set. “Can you believe that? I’m never going to get out of here. Oh, God, Willie.” Doreen buried her face in her hands and bawled.

At first Willie just stared at his wife. He didn’t really know what to say. As he watched Doreen weep he searched for some comforting words. “Come on now, Reenie, you know I could never stand to see you cry. Don’t do that now. Everything is going to turn out just fine. I done hired that law firm to take care of you. Everything is going to be all right. You’ll see.”

Wiping her eyes and calming down, Doreen looked up at her husband. His words, although try if he might to make them tender and sincere, weren’t. Willie was just going through the motions, and Doreen knew it. He was just saying what he thought a husband should say. The look in his eyes didn’t match his demeanor. He sat in the chair like the strong, supportive husband, but his eyes were full of hurt. They were full of pain. It wasn’t worry and heartache that he should have felt for his wife. No, he was feeling something else for somebody else. Doreen could discern it.

“Little girl, you’ve got the gift of discernment,” her father would always say to her. “God done blessed you to just get a feeling about people, places, and things. To just be able to tell things by strong feelings.”

That indeed was true. Doreen could sometimes just tell things weren’t right. That’s why she’d popped up out of Bible Study that day and went to the juke joint. That’s how she was able to catch that floozy in Willie’s lap. She had a feeling. That same feeling that sent her to the juke joint was the same feeling she ignored in her gut when she knew she should have walked away from that motel room.

“That gift of discernment is special,” her father had continued to say. “Make sure you tune into it real good. It can help keep you out of trouble. It can help keep you away from the wrong people, places, and things.”

If only Doreen had followed her father’s advice. Speaking of her father, Doreen asked Willie, “My daddy and my mama—did you call them? Do they know?”

“Naw, I, uh, figured I’d let you be the one to do that. I mean, I didn’t even know if you wanted them to know. I guess I was figuring you’d just do like some of the folks do back at home when they get out of line and Pops has to call the man on them. They usually just spend a night or a weekend in jail and that is that.

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