The Way You Lie: The Aftershock by Pynn Aubree

Author:Pynn, Aubree
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

After, Aunt Janice placed my food in front of me she pulled my Aunt Gayle out of the kitchen leaving my dad and me alone. He didn’t say anything he didn’t even look in my direction. He held his head down and ate his food.

“Quite a ring you got there,” he pointed out without even looking at me.

I kissed my teeth and looked back at my aunts who poked their heads around the corner to eavesdrop.

“I’m sorry,” I spoke up ignoring his comment. “I can’t blame you for any of my failures. You did what you could do.”

“Son,” he lifted his head and looked at me. “I need you to know I gave you more than I was given. If it weren’t for your mother, I wouldn’t have been able to do it.”

I nodded my head and cleared my throat. “I respect that.”

I grew silent; I didn’t want to burden him with my shit. “What did you want to tell me earlier?”

“After mom’s funeral, I’m going to turn myself in. I’m going to plead guilty to wire fraud.”

His face grew sad, his shoulders slumped. “How many counts?”

“Right now, it’s three. I’ll know more once I get back to Atlanta and meet with Harrison. I just need you to know I’m going to do the best I can to right my wrongs. It’s time to man up and stop hiding behind the veil of invisibility.”

“But for a minute in time, you were. You were covered, and you didn’t even know it,” he shared leaning back in his chair. “Your mother prayed for you every day, sometimes twice a day. She saw your light even when you couldn’t. Adele had a way of pulling out the best in anyone she came in contact with. That was her gift, and it blessed me. When I was growing up, I had no idea what it was like to see my mother happy. My father tore her down in every way imaginable. I’m not proud that I inherited some of his traits. But your mother, my wife, she loved me beyond that. Whatever she saw in me was worth fighting for.”

I took a bite of my food and shook my head. Remembering my mother and all the things she loved took away some of the ache in my heart.

“Y’all made it damn near impossible to live up to that kind of love.”

“If love can’t forgive, or love through the brokenness it ain’t love. You’ll find the right woman. I know that you were searching for someone like your mother and when you found someone close, you didn’t know how to take care of it. It happens to the best of us. Do you know that your mother broke up with me three days before our wedding?” he laughed softly looking down at the wedding band on his finger. “Took me two years to get her back. There was a standard of man I had to become before she accepted me back.”

“I knew you had your ways, but I didn’t know she left.

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