Secrets Series 2: The Secrets They Kept by Charmaine Galloway

Author:Charmaine Galloway [Galloway, Charmaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Christian, Women's Fiction
Amazon: B00IB24V8G
Publisher: Charming Gal Publications
Published: 2014-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“It was going to be a very ugly sight when Devon and Robert finally bumped into each other.”

-Brittany Parker

When Robert arrived at my apartment we had a deep conversation. He was upset about the way I’d reacted to Keyasia’s crying and he scolded me like I was his child.

“Don’t you ever put your hands on that child while you’re angry again!” is what he told me as soon as he entered into my home.

I just sat there and listened to him as he chastised me, I was too mentally out of it to do anything else. I knew I was wrong, but my anger had gotten the best of me and I snapped. I could see how some women shook their children or harmed them, but I didn’t want to be that woman, didn’t want to harm my child. That’s why I called for help.

In his rage, my husband reiterated how he would have given anything for someone to have stepped in and protected him from his abusive father. I remembered when we met one of the first things he’d told me was that he’d wanted children so he could raise them right. He didn’t want to beat them the way his father had beaten him until he was black and blue, and his mother hadn’t done a single thing to stop him. He wanted to prove that he could be a better father to his children than his own father was to him.

He was really hurt about how I’d treated Keyasia and I was so glad that he was there to protect her from me, because I was a mess. A serious mess. He insisted that I get counseling because he thought that I may have been depressed with everything that was going on. I told him I would if he would go with me. He agreed and I was ecstatic.

I told him that I was overwhelmed with everything life had brought my way. I told him about the visit I had with my mother, about my real mother being a prostitute that never wanted me and how my dad had lied to me my entire life. I told him about my decision to continue calling Marie mom because she raised me and was the only mom I knew. I told him how it had made me feel to have both my biological mother and my biological father abandon me and leave me for someone else to take care of.

I told him how I didn’t feel wanted or loved.

I could tell that Robert felt sorry for me, especially when he embraced me and comforted me. I could tell he still cared for me by the way he used his words to soothe and to calm me. I could tell that I was the woman he still loved, by the way he held me and let me sob and sob and sob until I fell asleep in his arms.

Robert and I lay in bed holding each other all night.

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