Redeeming Waters by Vanessa Davis Griggs

Author:Vanessa Davis Griggs
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: African American, Christian, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781410443366
Publisher: Dafina
Published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

And he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

—2 Samuel 11:4 (c)

Brianna awakened to a sun-filled room. It was a beautiful day. She could tell, just from the way the sun was already causing her to feel. But as she struggled to open her eyes completely, then began to look around, everything came rushing back to her. She bolted straight up in the bed.

“Oh, my Lord! What did I do?” Brianna said. A man’s groan caused her to quickly close her eyes back.

“What is it?” the man said groggily as he began to stir. “What’s the matter?”

Brianna opened her eyes. “Wake up.” She shook him vigorously. “Wake up!”

He sat up and began to rub the sleep from his eyes, then rubbed his face with both his hands. When he turned and looked her way, he instantly broke into a huge smile and leaned over. “Morning, Bathsheba. Did you sleep well?”

Brianna pulled the covers up around the top half of herself better and clutched the bedspread comforter tightly. With her other hand, she tried to cover her face. “Please tell me this is just a dream. Please tell me we didn’t do what I think we did?”

King d.Avid pushed himself to a straighter position, pressing his back against the bed’s headboard. “Ah,” he said, then shook his head with adoration. “Brianna.”

“We did, didn’t we?” Brianna took a quick peek under the covers. “We did! God, forgive me. We did. And I can’t even blame this on alcohol, because I didn’t have anything stronger than a cola to drink.”

“Brianna, I’m sorry.” King d.Avid closed his eyes for a few seconds as though he was either going back to sleep or praying.

Brianna looked upward. “God, please forgive me. Oh, God, please forgive me.”

“Lord, I ask that you forgive me as well,” King d.Avid said before turning back to Brianna. “Listen—”

“Why did you call me Bathsheba?” Brianna said.

“What?”

“When you were first waking up. You said, ‘Morning, Bath-sheba. ’ I want to know why you said that.”

King d.Avid shook his head. “I don’t know. Maybe because the last thing on my mind before I fell asleep was the name Bathsheba. So when I awakened, a bit disoriented I might add, I spoke what was last on my mind.”

“Do you know anyone named Bathsheba?” Brianna asked.

King d.Avid chuckled. “Just you. Don’t you remember? We were waltzing around the ballroom floor, you told me your middle name was Bathsheba. I told you the R in my name was for Rondell. I said it was interesting that your folks named you Bathsheba, albeit your middle name, and that my folks named me David—both biblical names.”

“Well, it’s neither interesting nor cute, right now. Not to me. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness!” Brianna let her head fall back against the headboard. She gazed up at the ceiling and incessantly shook her head.

“Brianna, please calm down. It’s going to be all right. I’m sorry that you’re upset. But I must say that I absolutely had a beautiful time with you the entire time we spent together.

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