Page 20 of Marriage Ever After
“Okay, ask the valet to get your car for you. I’ll meet you out front.”
“Kash…” Mila called my name out.
She stood. As if already knowing what I was going to do next. She was further from the table by the time, I flipped it over and I swung at Manny’s jaw. All I saw was red. I advanced on the man so quickly, he never had a chance. I could hear Mila’s voice in the background yelling my name, but she was smart. She never touched me because had she, I would’ve beaten his ass even more for taking advantage of my wife when she wasn’t even in her right mind to defend herself. What made me hit him repeatedly was the fact that Mila still wasn’t right enough to understand that she should’ve never been sitting at this table with him. I wondered if I fucked up her progress as I heard Graham yelling out my name like a crazy person. I didn’t stop until I was ripped off him by what I found out to be more than four cops. The only way they kept me from killing Manny was the fact that they laid me out on the floor in my expensive suit and in handcuffs while I stared at Manny with the intent to kill.
Mila
I was freaking out because they wouldn’t let Kash out of the damn county jail.
“I need to see my husband…” I said to one of the officers who insisted on giving me an attitude since I first stepped foot here.
He peered up at me with a lazy type of precision then he smirked. I wanted to slap that smirk off his ugly mug, but I wouldn’t. I already knew the stigmas that came with the color of my skin.
“You can’t see him yet. He’s still being processed.”
I glared at him,
“you do realize that he’s a criminal lawyer right? And the fact that you’re taking twice as long to process him, means you’ll be on his shit list, right?”
He scoffed.
“Ma’am, you’re not the first person waiting to see someone, but I can make it that you’re the last.”
I huffed as I went back to sit down. I pulled my cell out as I texted Cherise again, thanking her for taking Jordan with her on her day off. I didn’t know that we were even going to be here for this long but now, I was just worried. I wanted to see Kash. I nervously bit my nails for the umpteenth time while Graham was on the phone telling Channing trying to get him to check on Manny. The worst thing was if Manny didn’t make it, then it would be manslaughter. Graham got off the phone then walked over to the officer who was giving us an attitude.
“Pete, is it?”
“Yeah, what of it?”
“I know my brother had something to do with my nephew still going through processing. If in the next ten minutes, Mrs. Emerson isn’t able to see her husband, by the end of today, you won’t have a job let alone live in this town. Pick a battle and be on the right side of it.”
Pete gritted his teeth as he picked up his phone making a call then with his face redder than I’ve ever seen, he hung it up with force.
“You can see him one at a time.”
Graham tsked.
“No, we’re both seeing him, and I dare you to say something else out of your mouth. I’ve been in a foul mood lately and if you want to end up worse than the idiot my nephew put in the hospital, test me.”
Pete stood placing his hand on his gun.
“Are you threatening me?”
Graham beckoned for me to take his hand.
“Don’t put your hand on a gun, if you have no intentions of following through or if the nightmares will make someone like you piss their bed at night.” He turned facing me. “Come on, Mils. Let’s go see my nephew.”
I placed my hand in Graham’s as we made our way towards where they were holding Kash.
“Hey…” Getting Graham’s attention.
“What’s up, Mils?”
“Why have you been in a foul mood lately? I know that I haven’t really been feeling like myself and haven’t talked to you. Are you okay, Graham?”
I squeezed my hand as we turned the corner going closer to where Kash was.
“Savannah left me.”
