Life After Marriage Book 3

All I Got

***Tanya in m/m in case y'all forgot what she looked like. I don't think I posted a pic of her in this books." 

"Relationships are not easy. That whole lilies and roses. Make up sex and we good thing exist in movies and books. Real relationships take work. Hardwork. And a lot of those days you're not gonna wanna put in the work. Cause the shit is too hard. So it's easy to abandon it every time there's some friction. You cannot do that. You cannot run away. You have to stay here and grind it out with me. Pray it out with me. Communicate it out with me August. Just like with anything else. School is hard for you, I know. But you didn't quit, even though things came in your way where you wanted to. Taking care of Chay, Noonie and Kay is hard, but I know you're not going to abandon them. Look at me." I softly touched his chin and directed it toward me.

"The same goes with us. You are a real fucking piece of work." I laughed.

He smirked.

"You got anger problems, this we know. Okay, we're gonna get to the root of that and work on it. Together. If me leaving without kissing you in the morning makes you insecure, I won't do that again. Because I want you to have peace of mind. I apologize about not texting and calling you back, things got a little hectic and I had planned on calling you once I left. I should've text you and said I'd call you later. Our relationship Aug is like when we went blind go-karting. We had to trust each other, that we'd lead each other in the right direction. Some days we won't get it right. Like you ran me into that wall."

"I told you to go straight." He grinned.

"And I didn't listen that time. But we both made it to the end baby. Safe. Not perfect. But safe. And every time we hit a rough patch, we have to think about that moment go-karting. Redirect each other to the right path, so we can make it to the end okay?"

-Chapter 23, Ready For Love

AUGUST POV –

I remember our first major, major fight vividly. Me and Kay were staying over Amb's house. Amb was acting funny before work. She never left the house without kissing me goodbye. She rushed out, like something or rather somebody else was on her mind, more important than me. I kept texting her and calling her to see if it was anything I had done, she didn't respond. I physically went to court where she was to fix whatever I had done, only to see her laughing and geeking it up with her ex-Omari.

Me being a hothead, I took it for cheating and basically embarrassed her in court. And for the first time, when I realized she wouldn't be in my life anymore, my heart ached. I loved her so much and to know she would do that to me?

Comes to find out, I was wrong. But it began a pattern. You see when it comes to Amb I am a very jealous and possessive man. I don't want anybody , besides my kids taking her focus, besides me.

I've just always been that way. Not saying it's right. But you have to understand I have never loved any woman as deeply as I love Amber and nobody has loved me the way she loves me, so when I feel my place in her life threatened, I act out. Childish I know.

And that childishness is the reason I didn't speak to my wife for, four days. It's the reason we had a big blow out on what could've been her last day on earth, and the guilt hit me like a ton of bricks.

"Pop-Pop why you crying?" Auggie asked me looking at me through the driver's mirror.

I wiped my hand down my face. "I'm aight Auggie."

"Why you crying den?"

How was I to tell my kids that their mother and baby brother could be dead? I didn't know what was going on. They wouldn't tell me anything over the phone. Chad just said that I needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible.