Page 6 of Marriage Ever After
“Mila. Are you kidding me right now? You nearly gave me a heart attack disappearing while I was sleeping. I thought we fixed this.”
I ran a hand over my face.
“What did we fix, Kash besides us having sex again after a week. Sex doesn’t fix everything! Don’t you get that!”
“Of course, I get that but who was it that wasn’t giving me none? Was I the one holding back from fucking you? No! You didn’t want me to touch you. I said I was sorry that I called you selfish when we talked about having more kids, but you can’t blame me. We said we’d have more kids after Jordan was a couple of years old and then when I brought it up, you fucking laughed at me. I told you that I love being a father. I want to be better than my own and you know why I want more kids. Don’t fucking patronize me for that, Mila!”
I scoffed.
“I can yell too, Kash, but that isn’t what I’m trying to do here. I told you. You don’t fucking listen. Just for one-second …listen to me. Let me speak. I love you Kash with all my heart, but I can’t keep letting you hurt me like this.”
Kash grunted something incoherent as I heard Channing saying something in the background.
“I’m giving you the weekend, Bunny. After that, I want you back with me. You can’t love me as much as I love you and you know it…Because I will never let you go. I’m not letting you leave me.”
With that, he hung up on me.
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My weekend was uneventful. It wasn’t hard to convince Jordan that I was out of town for work, so she got the benefit and chance to stay with her father. Kash, for the first time in his life, did what I asked. He left me alone for the weekend. Instead of figuring things out and talking about them, I dug deep into my creativity and worried about work.
Now, here I was, the Sunday ending, and I knew that I had to face Kash. Someone knocked on my office door as I busied myself with what a client needed, and I looked up to see Graham in my office. I smiled at him. Graham Emerson was not your average uncle. He was the Emerson clan’s youngest son and he took over the marketing company instead of becoming a judge or a lawyer like the rest of his family even though he went to law school and passed the bar. He only practised law for his special clients, he also was the sweetest one out of his entire family. Not that they were all bad but his older brother, Rick was not anyone’s cup of tea.
Graham Emerson always rocked a designer suit custom made for him, courtesy of his old-money status. He wasn’t that much older than Kash, he was in his early forties now while Kash was thirty-two, so they were more friends than anything else. He had the Emerson features, the dark hair, hazel eyes, and height along with that killer smile that got him clients in a heartbeat while for Kash, his was cold and calculated but still beautiful winning him his cases.
“Hey, Graham. Going home?”
He gave me that wicked smile of his as he straightened his suit and ran his fingers through his hair.
“Yeah. You know Savannah loves it when I get home to watch her murder shows with her,” he chuckled shaking his head. “You heading home to spend time with Jordy and Kash?”
The moment he mentioned Kash’s name, my face transformed into a bundle of emotions and I tried to get it back together before Graham could spot it.
“No, I just need to go over this presentation that we have on Tuesday with the Bridges clients. I don’t want to miss anything. It might take all night. Fingers crossed, it won’t.”
I gave my best bullshit smile hoping that Graham wouldn’t see through it but the moment he sighed, unbuttoned his smoky grey suit jacket and walked over to sit on the chair across from me, I knew he suspected something. The worry was now fully displayed on his face,
“What is it, Mils? Everything okay?”
I nodded.
“Yeah. Don’t worry about it, Graham. Go home to Savannah. Let’s not keep her waiting.”
He shook his head as he pulled his cell out of his pocket. He dialed a number,
“baby? I’ll be a little late. No, no everything is okay, but Mils isn’t.” He peered up at me and I averted my gaze. “Yeah. Love you too. Bye.”
“You didn’t have to do that, Graham.”
“Yes, I did, Mila. You and I are not only friends but we’re family. I’ve told you countless times, family sticks together no matter what unless the other causes some unnecessary nonsense then an ass-whoopin' is needed.” He smirked.
I laughed nodding my head.
“Yeah, I know, I always try to keep that gem with me. It’s just hard sometimes, Graham. Your nephew challenges me in ways I don’t think anyone could ever before. Sometimes, I think about a life without him but then I realize that it would be stupid because if he didn’t come into my life, I would’ve been so empty. I don’t know what to do with him. He doesn’t listen and it’s frustrating getting anything across to him. I’ve tried many different ways but damn.”
Graham listened to me as I revealed everything, he observed and listened not saying a word which made me appreciate him even more. I just wanted someone to listen to me. He waited until I was finished speaking. He sat back in the chair placing one leg over the other.
“Answer me this…while you want him to listen to you, have you sat down and listened to what he wants too? Or is this one of those, I need to get my point across situations?”
