Enjoy this preliminary excerpt of How To Love Me. [Please Note: All preliminary excerpts are subject to a few editing changes.]
Chapter 1
Indigo
How did my soon-to-be ex-husband
end up being my friend? That baffles me even now – close to a year after we
realized we weren’t working as a couple. Me and Micah have been married for
three years – only really together for two of those – and you wanna know what
really sucks? Micah is a good man, and he’s quite the looker. He’s got the cliché
tall, dark and handsome thing going for him just the way most women like ‘em. He’s
fine enough to be a model if he wanted to be and therein lies the root cause
for most of our issues – well, issues when we were together, that is. Micah knew
how handsome he was and he enjoyed the attention from women a lil’ too much to
be a married man. When I would bring up his flirtatious behavior, he’d downplay
it and tell me I was – how did he put it?
– delusional and insecure. Told me I had nothing to worry about. Said he only
had eyes for me. I halfway believed him at first but then he got roses one day
and they weren’t from me. I don’t know who they were from. I mean, what kind of
desperate jumpoff sends a married man a vase of roses? In a stunning turn of
new-age role reversal, was it now acceptable for women to send men flowers? There
wasn’t a card with them and he stuttered his way through the argument, still pegging
me insecure in the process. Romantically, we were pretty much over after that. If
he wanted romance, he could holla at
whoever sent him that desperate bouquet of grocery store roses.
Two months after Micah moved out
of the four-bedroom house we shared, we started talking again. He was the
initiator and though I was reluctant at first, reconnecting didn’t seem all
that bad since the sixty days that had separated gave us both plenty enough time
to sort through our feelings. Of course, our relationship wasn’t the same. Conversing
with him wasn’t the same either, but at least we were talking, right? Most married
people who’d separated hated each other. We were the anomaly.
We set some ground rules – if we
were going to continue down this path as ‘friends’, we wouldn’t discuss any
other relationships we may have developed along the way. We’d respect each
other’s boundaries and keep things on a friendship level. My best friend KeShana
thought I was crazy for being friends with him at all. She didn’t like Micah –
called him a buster because, well, that’s what your best friend is supposed to
call the man who broke her best friend’s heart. That, along with a few other
choice words.
Did Micah Justus
break my heart?
Hmm…
Let him tell it and the demise
of our marriage was all my fault. Men
are always looking to shift the blame to someone else, aren’t they? Can’t get
ahead in life? Blame the man. Not
making enough money? It’s the system.
Marriage didn’t work out? It’s the wife.
They can’t help it. It all started from the beginning of time and I’m talking
Genesis: Adam and Eve. The Almighty asked Adam why he disobeyed and ate the
fruit and what was ol’ Adam’s response? It
was that woman you gave me…
Blame, blame, blame.
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Releasing in February 2020. Exact release date TBD and will be announced soon.
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