Small Sensations by Crystal V. Rhodes

Author:Crystal V. Rhodes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58571-614-2
Publisher: Genesis Press, Inc.
Published: 2012-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Davia snuggled up in the cushioned comfort of the soft leather sofa in Justin’s family room. After landing in Atlanta, the two of them had stopped at his house for some time alone together before she went home. Shutting her eyes, she reviewed the weekend that they had spent in Chicago. Justin had been a hit with the family.

Papa Josh and he had gotten along right away and Mama Willa, much more suspicious of everyone, had been impressed. Darius had told her in private that he thought that Justin was a “fine man,” while Donna called him a “hunk.” Yes, things had gone well.

Giving a contented sigh, Davia opened her eyes and looked straight into Justin’s eyes. He had taken a seat beside her. Smiling down at her, he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her to him.

“What are you thinking about?”

Davia snuggled up to him. “Oh, I was thinking about our weekend and how much everyone liked you. The Johnson family saved my life, and their opinion means a lot to me.”

“I know. Darius told me how his younger sister, Tina, brought you to their home.”

“If she hadn’t, I don’t know where I would have ended up. I know it’s hard for you to understand just how hard my childhood really was. So I don’t expect someone like you…”

“Someone like me?” Justin pulled back. He wasn’t happy with her description.

Davia didn’t retreat. “Justin, I know you try to understand, and I appreciate it, but you come from a world of economic security. It’s so beyond where I came from that there’s no way you can understand what my life was like. Most children have families who are there for them. As a child, I couldn’t even conceive of such a possibility until the Johnson family came along.”

Justin nodded. “I see.” He hated to admit it, but she was right.

“I was a runaway, Justin.” She hesitated, reluctant to relive the pain of the past.

“You ran away from your cousin?”

“No, it was something else.” Someone else. Davia took a shaky breath. Like a serpent, thoughts of Money slithered to the forefront of her consciousness. She pushed them back. “I don’t want to go into it, but I did live on the streets for a while. I slept and ate where I could. I was a child carrying a child and I didn’t even know it. I was completely alone. That is, until one day, when an eleven-year-old girl came up to me while I was sitting in the park.”

“Tina Johnson,” Justin stated, referring to the youngest of the Johnson clan.

“Yes, and she took me home to Mama Willa.” Davia recalled. “I used to hang out in this little neighborhood park nearly every day. Don’t ask me why, but for some reason I felt safe there. Lord knows it was filled with as much danger as the rest of the places I called home, but it had trees and flowers—Anyway, I would see this little girl in a plaid hooded jacket cutting through the park nearly every time I was there.

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