The Thin Line Between Love & Race: Guilty Of Love Part 1 by Ash Banks

Author:Ash Banks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, erotica, african american, interracial, interracial erotic romance bwwm, interracial erotca short story, interracial adult sex, interracial black woman white man

Chapter 2

Two Sides

Meeting with Darryl made me excited. And I was curious about his plans for future protests. The next day, I found myself thinking about Darryl and wanting to see him again. But where would I see him?

His bookstore.

Steve was not happy about me wanting to leave again.

“Yvette, what is at the bookstore that is so important that you must go there on a Sunday?” he exclaimed while pacing back and forth in the living room. We had been watching every news channel since I returned from the rally Saturday night. The case wasn’t headlining yet, but you could feel that it would be big in the coming weeks after more people became aware of it.

Steve, whose face was beating red, looked at me and said, “I need you right now babe and I can’t do this by myself. The PD is telling me that the boy is still in a coma. If he doesn’t pull through, it’s my ass.”

I don’t know what about Steve’s tone of voice that made me cry, but I did. I felt so selfish and unsupportive at that moment that I broke down. “I’m sorry honey. I’ve really been stressed out about the whole situation and I guess I forgot who truly needed the support,” I cried. Those first few days of the case, I was thinking about how to cover my ass. But at that second, I remembered that it was Steve, who was going to be hung if he was accused or found guilty of a crime.

While Steve was pulling his hair out at home, I was thinking about seeing the man who was supposedly trying to put him in prison. What kind of wife was I?

I decided to not leave the house that day and I stayed with Steve while he answered phone calls from his attorneys and superiors from the NYPD. Steve continuously asked me did I believe he didn’t mean to shoot the boy and only did it out of self-defense. I promised him that I believed that he was telling the truth. I knew my husband and his character. I knew he wasn’t the kind of police officer that would racially profile and shoot a black teenager out of over aggressive behavior.

But how could I prove this to the community of Harlem?

Well, first I would have to tell everyone that I was married to the police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager. And that was easier said than done. I made the decision to not tell my 9th grade English students that I was married to a white cop, so how was I supposed to come out and uncover the marriage after he shoots a boy. I felt a sense of unfaithfulness.

Steve asked me what happened at the rally after I returned. Leaving major details out and the conversation with Darryl, I explained to him that although the rally was small and the media attention was still in its early stages, I felt that he should come out with a public statement as soon as possible before the opposition exposed him.

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