Ulterior Motives: A Tale of Love & Betrayal by Dechella Taylor

Author:Dechella Taylor [Taylor, Dechella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Urban, Women's Fiction, Genre Fiction
Amazon: B00TP5VBQI
Publisher: Royalty Publishing House
Published: 2015-02-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15- Elizabeth Singleton

Would I have believed my mother if she had tried to tell me that Hamilton was married? I had asked myself that question at least a thousand times over the past week couple of weeks. It seemed like every man I dated turned out to either be married, or they didn’t want to marry me. I was so angry at Hamilton that I refused to see or speak to him. I gave clear instructions to my doorman not to give Hamilton access to my condo and I ignored every phone call and text that he sent me. Not only was my dating a married man wrong, it was embarrassing.

I flaunted Hamilton around so many of my friends, and I’d taken him to meet my father whom Hamilton claimed loved him. I also felt trapped in our relationship because of the fact that I was having his child, but most of all I felt betrayed. I didn’t want to lose another child, but I could tell that I was heading in that direction. In the last week, he hadn’t stopped calling or texting me every three hours on the dot, and I hated to admit that he was starting to weigh me down. I didn’t want to tell Hamilton that I believed him when he said that he’d been separated from his wife for more than a year. She certainly looked hurt at the fact that he’d moved on, but what did she expect?

Plus, Hamilton made it clear to her that I was the woman he wanted to be with. I would have never dated Hamilton if I had known he was married, but now it was too late to turn back. I loved him, and I couldn’t just turn my feelings off as though they didn’t exist. I refused to become a woman like my mother. She was a professional at turning her feelings off, and overtime she had become a shell of a woman, more robotic in her actions. She was perfect at saying the right thing at the right time, laughing at the distasteful jokes her colleagues made at social events, and giving the most money to public charities. She knew exactly what to wear, exactly who to hire, and exactly who to dismiss. My mother was a wonderful business woman, and partner for anyone, including my father, but she was a terrible mother.

I was the only child between my parents, and while I had a cousin from my mother’s brother Sebastian, she tended to stay clear of me. I was considered the black sheep amongst my family, because I refused to conform to their silly little values. I preferred to live life my own way, and if that meant I wanted to love a black man, then I would love a black man.

“Ding Dong,” I rang the doorbell to my best friend’s home. She lived not too far from my parent’s estate in River Oaks with her husband. She opened the door with a wide smile, holding her pearl white Yorkshire Terrier whose name was Tinker.

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