Loose Ends

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Author: Electa Rome Parks
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of her dreams—Brice, her ex-husband and my ex-best friend. Mia hasn’t seen him in over five years. The last time Mia set eyes on him was in the midst of a violent fight, when he was beating her ass and she ended up in the hospital.
     
     
    It’s been almost that long for me as well. A few months later, Brice and I had a confrontation before his departure overseas with the marines. I guess back then we were both running from our own internal demons. Brice chose to run to another country; I chose to remove myself from the source of my pain and bittersweet memories. That time frame and period in my life seems like light-years ago. The person I was back then doesn’t even exist anymore.
     
     
    It’s a long story the way Mia and I got together. My wife is a lovely thirty-year-old lady with beautiful brown eyes, high cheekbones, a head of thick, black, wavy hair that she keeps short and a petite body that won’t quit. I love her with all my heart and soul. I could be in a room full of supermodels or even Janet Jackson or Halle Berry and I’d still have eyes only for my Mia. Well, maybe I’d look, but I’d have love for only Mia. And that’s saying a lot, since I am a retired player.
     
     
    A few years ago, if someone told me I would be married with a two-year-old daughter, I would have laughed in his face. Back then, women had only one thing I needed. I’m the first one to admit that I loved myself some beautiful black women. God knew exactly what he was doing when he made these wonderful, sexy, sensual creatures He called women. Whisper a few sweet words in their ears, treat them like they’re special, even if only for that moment, and they take you to heaven and back.
     
     
    Women don’t realize just how much power they possess between their legs. Men don’t want to admit it, but women have the power, and some of them have figured that truth out. There’s nothing like the feel or touch of a woman’s silky body against a masculine one, and when a man takes her to ecstasy, makes her come, it’s an amazing feeling. Men never get enough. Unfortunately for me, I was making the trip to heaven every opportunity I received from every and any driver I could find.
     
     
    Then Mia came into my life via Brice and all that changed. Mia changed my world as I knew it. She has brought so much joy into my life; if only she would learn to trust and share her feelings and thoughts with me. Mia keeps everything bottled up so tightly it’s amazing she doesn’t explode. I understand some of her reasons, because I know how she was raised and some of the things that have happened in her lifetime. But . . . I want Mia to know and believe that I’m not going to hurt her, mentally or physically. It saddens me to think that she would ever doubt my love for her.
     
     
    Sometimes, I think Mia is looking for the moment when I will hit her. That will never happen. Mia is very headstrong and we’ve had some pretty heated arguments, but I’d cut off my right arm before I’d strike her.
     
     
    I know these nightmares are all stemming from what I made the mistake of telling her about a month ago. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. Mia and I were stretched out, as usual, on the sofa in the living room half watching some old Western movie on TV. Lyric was fast asleep, taking her midday nap, with her favorite baby doll and stuffed bear nearby.
     
     
    Mia’s arms were wrapped around my waist, her head on my chest, half dozing. I looked down at her for a moment and caressed her face. “Baby, you’re not going to believe who wrote me the other day.”
     
     
    “Who?” she asked sleepily, readjusting her head on my chest.
     
     
    “You’ll never guess in your wildest dreams.”
     
     
    “I don’t know, who?” she asked again. “I give up.”
     
     
    I paused for only a second. This was going to be a shock for Mia, as it had been for me as well.
     
     
    “Brice, Brice Matthew.”
     
     
    Mia didn’t say anything at

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