Looking at the rose I wasn't sure what she meant, and I said as much, my mama smiled at me,
“In order to understand love, you would have to understand hatred first, and the only way to learn that is to experience fear.”
Mama touched my cheek and walked out, leaving me alone with that single rose in my hand and my own pebbles scattered to the floor.
I never got what she meant that day and I didn't understand it for the eight months I dated Dexter.
I knew I didn't love him, I knew it because when he started liking other girls I didn't even bat an eye-lash.
But I did understand it the day Vincent Stone walked back into my life.
I was seventeen and my brother Kevin was already patched into The Satan Snipers Motorcycle club in Houston, Texas.
I was meeting Kevin for lunch in Seattle at a small restaurant near one of the Universities I was applying to.
I hardly got to see him since he joined the navy years back. And like always whenever an opportunity presented itself to meet with him I took it with both hands.
That day was no different.
I love my Kevin, I understand him as no one else does.
And the fact that he was meeting me, even though he had ‘shit’ to do, proved that my brother loved me in his own detached way.
I never need the words when his actions speak so loudly.
So that day I made sure I was a couple of minutes early.
I never thought I’d see Vincent walk into the same restaurant. What were the chances, right?
Dressed in a crisp charcoal three piece Italian Suit that screamed money and power Vincent was too overdressed for the small place. I remember the hot flash of nerves riddling my belly.
indented nose, the strong jaw that
exact thing that drew me to
you because honestly speaking there is no other way to describe my stepbrother besides for what he is, imposing
him, maybe it is the
was
and his sharp hazel eyes found me before I even sat my
do, I didn’t know whether to greet him, or pretend
I would have informed him that the restaurant was for
red and black Jordan's
it was years before that day in the small family owned restaurant when
a teenager and I was just a kid who didn't care that he
dressed in his four thousand dollar suit he was a full-grown man,
cared and I didn't stop
God save my
greet me that day, he
walked in, then he got up, buttoned
on the back, whispered a
suit jacket staring
whole thing was clipped, even my mind couldn't find a more appealing way
never stated, but
courage to have asked Kevin, I didn't. I was weak then, still learning, still growing, my
was months later when
we frequented the same places and he was
are- my sappy heart
face when my other half
squirrel at the dumpster behind Trilogy, and then I got
Vincent's luck
turning bad, twisting
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