Page 54 of Legend's Legacy
“Luiiisaa,” Joseph groaned.
“Okay. All right already.” She finished fixing Courtland’s plate, and I waited until he had paid for our lunches and retrieved his container.
We walked out of the café together and back into the lobby.
“Listen, I don’t have all the details, but I know that he’s missing you.”
“No, he’s not. He’s missing the woman he was cheating with.”
“What woman, Legacy?”
“The woman he was out with at Cisaro’s Cuisine the weekend before last.”
“What did she look like?”
“About my height. Brown-skinned with dark brown hair with caramel highlights.”
“Did she have freckles on her face?”
I bobbed my head. “She did. The only reason I remember is that it’s odd for a black woman of her color. Why?”
“That was his ex-wife, Kali.”
“And? He wants a hero cookie for it or something? I mean, if he was considering getting back with her, then he should have said something to me. He didn’t need to distance himself from me the way that he did and all of a sudden start lying to me about where he would be.”
“What did he tell you?”
“That he had an appointment.”
“What date was this?”
“I don’t know the date. It was two Fridays ago.”
“The sixteenth.”
“And?”
He sighed and shook his head. “That was the date that Kali miscarried their baby. It was the second anniversary of her death.”
“Her?”
“Yeah. They were having a girl.”
“He never told me that.” Shame and regret flowed through me. I wanted to disappear.
“I’m surprised that he told you anything at all. He doesn’t like to talk about it with anyone, and if it weren’t for his family and me knowing that they were expecting, I doubt we would know anything about the miscarriage either. He’s dated women since then, but he’s never told anyone about that baby. That tells me that his feelings for you run deep.”
I felt bad. An unease worked its way deep inside of me, and if I hadn’t felt foolish the day that it happened, I truly felt foolish now. I showed my ass on that man and his ex during a very important time.
“It’s difficult for both of them. I know that they’re not getting back together, but what I do know is that they are there for each other on the anniversary. They were, on the first.”
“And they were on the second, and they will probably be on all subsequent anniversaries.”
Courtland shook his head. “I’m not gonna debate that with you. But I can promise you that if he had someone he could lean on, he wouldn’t be there with her.”
“I thought that she was involved with someone else.”
“She is. She’s getting married to her boss. But I doubt that he understands the pain they’re both going through. It may be natural for them to reach out to each other on that day. Don’t kick him out.”
