Thirty (A Sun Series Bonus Story) (The Sun Series) by Rae Lyse

Author:Rae Lyse [Lyse, Rae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rae Lyse Books LLC
Published: 2022-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

“Still no job, huh?” Danny peered up from the paperwork piled on his desk.

“No,” Andre muttered back.

No job, no Corey, and eventually he’d have no money.

He swiped his wet palms down the length of the khaki pants Audriana told him to wear that morning over FaceTime from her grandma’s. She told him to pair them with a white button down and had gushed over how handsome he looked. Jade said he looked like a Mormon Missionary when they ran into each other in the driveway before she left to head to Athens to visit her mama.

He didn’t expect his second visit with Danny to circle around so quick but the free world moved at a blinding pace. It seemed as if he had just touched Audriana for the first time. The free world didn’t care that he needed more time to prepare for all the tests that kept getting thrown his way. It just kept moving.

“You know how many parolees re-offend?” Danny stared at his neck like he did when they first met.

Andre gulped in the stuffy air. The thin walls shook as someone in the office next to them slammed a door shut while he pondered on how he’d answer Danny’s stupid question.

“A lot.”

Cory had reoffended so many times it was normal. Aaron and Avery reoffended so much their sentences had tripled since their first offenses. Rahim always told him they didn’t build the system to help black men transition back into the world. They built it from slavery and molded it over time to make sure they remained jailed and inferior.

Ms. Jacobs always assured him the reentry programs did their best for Aaron and Avery. They did so good they sent Aaron back to jail once for missing curfew at his halfway house, and they sent Avery back for having contact with a police officer after he’d gotten pulled over for a broken taillight.

“More than half go back,” Danny answered. “You trying to be one of those idiots?”

“Nah. I’m not.”

“You know what I think, Andre?”

His leg bounced while he thought about Natasha’s constant reassurance that he could survive: “I believe in you, Lou.”

No other girl ever thought he was vulnerable enough to need to be believed in—not even Kemah. He didn’t fault her, though. She was only a baby when he got her pregnant. She had no time to recognize vulnerability in him because she was too busy being a vulnerable little mother to a newborn.

“I think you’re a lucky man who’s blessed beyond measures to be free, but I can read between the lines.” Danny scoffed. “I’ve seen enough of you walk through this door because some idiot judge pitied the fact you committed a crime as a kid and thought it’d be smart to set you free on some second chance bullshit. It’s never anything new with y’all, though. Gangs are taking over our city—killing innocent people and children. The gun violence is out of control and what do they do? They release a felon convicted of murder and insist he parole to a famous ball player’s house.

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