Life After Marriage Book 3

Gone

Three Months Later

O and Donielle in M/m

Amber POV-

"Sata go play." I came over to the table Sata was at with her head down all alone. All the other kids were off playing.

We had taken a few of O's friends from school to Chuck E Cheese as a going away party for Octavian.

Donielle, his mother had got out of rehab. The doctors said she was doing great and suggested a change of scenery might help with her recovery.

That change of scenery came in the form of a gifted program in Boston that was a division of Harvard.

Octavian tested so high and they wanted him at the school so bad, they were going to pay for Donielle and him an apartment, help her find work, And even let her enroll at a local college if she wanted.

That had to have him that bad.

It was a great opportunity, but it still hurt us a little. He had become apart of our family. And him leaving was going to be a hard void to fill.

"I don't wanna." She cried into the table.

"Aww Sata. We'll go visit." I sat in the seat across from her.

"I don't wanna visit. I want him here. Why does he have to go mommy?" she looked up at me. Her little tears hurt my heart and brought to the surface my sadness of this all.

O and her were like two peas in a pod. Of course it hurt to tear them apart.

"Because a big opportunity came for him."

"Can we move to?"

"No sweetheart, it's just for him and his mother."

"She needs to go back where she came from. She's taking him from me." She pouted with a mean face.

"Watch your mouth." I eyed her.
I handed her a tissue. She wiped her running nose.

My attention turned to Octavian and his mother who were playing bop-the-frog. I had never seen him more happier than he was now.

I know he loved us, but that was his mother. And you could see the love and joy he had for her in his eyes.

And despite her past, she deserved a chance to make the relationship with her son stronger.

"You don't leave your best friend mommy." She came over to my side of the table and cried into my chest.

"No. We don't. Because they always live in our hearts. I had to remember that when I went off to law school at LSU. I didn't want to leave Auntie Tanya."

"You left Auntie Tanya?" She looked up at me.

"Yes because I had to go there for school. And she was still here in Georgia. But she would visit me at least once a month and we'd go out. Do girl stuff. And nothing made my day more than knowing she'd be coming. Especially when she'd surprise me."

"Can we surprise O one day?"

"Yes. Before he starts school we'll go up there okay?"

"Okay." She wiped her eyes. "I just don't want him to forget me mommy. If he goes away."

"He can never forget you baby. You're too pretty to forget."

She smiled. "You think so?"

"I know so." I smiled back and kissed her forehead.

"Sata let's go play in the balls." O ran over and grabbed Sata by the hand.

She jumped right up and they ran off together.