Former Rain by Vanessa Miller

Author:Vanessa Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: african american, urban, christian
Publisher: Vanessa Miller

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The swell of her belly was not completely gone, but there was no life there just the same. Nina could hardly believe how empty her belly felt. She found herself wondering, as she touched it, if life would ever exist there again. She turned her head slightly to the left and smiled. Life may not be in her belly, and maybe it won’t ever be there again, but she was looking at the life she and Isaac had produced and he looked wonderful.

Her baby stretched his little arms and wiggled his body. He let out a wail that was much too big for his five-pound body. Nina picked him up. “What’s the matter with the baby?” He continued to stretch and wail. “I know what you want.” She opened her gown and laid him against her breast. He latched on and suckled until he was full. Nina laid the baby on her chest and rubbed his small back. He burped and fell back to sleep.

As she held her son in her arms, she closed her eyes and prayed. Lord, I give him back to You. May he grow in the wisdom and knowledge of You. Help me to raise my son in the fear of You, Lord. May he forever keep Your commandments, my Lord, my King.

“Praying again,” Isaac said dryly as he opened the door. He walked over to the bed and looked down at the small bundle in Nina’s arm. “My son, huh?”

Nina stared at Isaac. His left arm was in a sling, but other than that, he seemed no worse for the wear. He reached down and touched the baby’s arm. At his touch, a small grin appeared on the baby’s face. Pure joy showed on Isaac’s face as he looked at Nina. “Did you see that? He knows me.”

Nina looked down at her baby and smiled.

“I wish I could hold him. Hopefully, I won’t have this sling on for long.”

“I heard what happened.”

He had just spent three hours going over the events of last night with the police. They thought they could make him talk – roll over on Keith, but Isaac showed them. He sat down next to her bed and hung his head. “Valerie died.”

“I know. I was sorry to hear that,” she told him.

Isaac looked at Nina. Her eyes were moist. He knew she meant what she said, but couldn’t understand why she would be sorry. Valerie was always doing stuff to Nina. If anything, he would have thought Nina would rejoice over Valerie’s demise and he told her just that.

Nina laid her baby back in his crib. “I don’t rejoice. My heart is sick over what happened to Valerie. I also mourn the deaths of those two men.”

“Well, you can stop mourning for them. I’m glad that Ray-Ray is dead. If I’d killed that fat pig months ago like I started to, none of this would have happened.”

Nina softly rubbed Isacc’s cheek with the tips of her fingers. She looked into his dark cold eyes.

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