Southern Scandal 3: His Last Wife by Grace Octavia

Author:Grace Octavia [Octavia, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: United States, Romance, African American, Women's Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Amazon: B00JVW6H32
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2014-10-28T04:00:00+00:00

This history was followed by similar scenes—boys Kerry wanted to love, friends Kerry wanted to make, places Kerry wanted to go, things Kerry wanted to know—all squashed with the heavy hand of a mother who did the honors in the name of love.

“I love him, Mama. And he loves me.” This was Kerry speaking more than ten years after the situation in the Bluffs. Then she was graduating from Spelman and she’d met some boy who was on scholarship at Morehouse. Thirjane had met the boy a few times. He was rather dark. Didn’t know which forks to use and spit in her begonias.

“I can’t believe you said yes to this man and accepted this ring—without speaking to me first.” Thirjane looked at the sad little ring and decided that there was no way she’d let her child go showing that thing to her people around town.

“What is there to talk about? We’re getting married.”

“He’s not good enough for you, Kerry Ann. And you don’t understand what I’m talking about now, but someday you will. He’s going to bring you down. This man is going to ruin you; ruin us—this family—our legacy. You’re my only child. Please!”

Kerry rolled her eyes like her mother didn’t know anything about anything.

“Mama, please stop. You’ve been telling me that since you forbade me to talk to Zachary Fullerton when I was eight years old. And he’s on his way to medical school.”

“Well, why don’t you call him up then? This Jamison isn’t going to medical school.”

“That’s because he’s staying here with me until I can get into school. And he wants to marry me.”

“This is going to be the biggest mistake of your life, girl. I’m telling you. Listen to your mother. I know best. That boy isn’t from anything and he’s never going to have anything. You’re going to struggle and struggle just to have a little bit, just to keep up. You will have to work. You will have to clean. You will have to pretend it’s all okay, but it won’t be. It’s going to be hard as hell because you married down and you married the wrong man. And I am not going to help,” Thirjane said so nastily her words dug into Kerry’s tear ducts and produced the crying Thirjane was seeking. “I will not let that nigga have a dime of my husband’s money!”

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