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Qyree walked into his parents’ massive home and headed straight for his side of the house. At 26 years old, you would think that he would have been out of his parents’ home, but he didn’t see a reason to. His parents spoiled him since he was the only child and the life he lived afforded him the luxuries he had become accustomed to. He didn’t have to spend his own money unless he wanted to, and he wasn’t about to pay to live in someone else’s home, if he could be there or at one of his jump-offs for free. The only time he would move out and purchase his own home was when he got married, and he vowed to the death of him that wasn’t happening. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

“What’s good, old man?” Qyree greeted his father when he walked past his office and saw him sitting behind his big oak desk.

His father, Jaxon Reeves, was the CEO to one of the largest record labels in the music industry. He had started his company from the ground up almost 30 years ago and he had gone nowhere but up. Everybody wanted to be signed to Hype Lyfe Records, but not just anybody would be. Jaxon made sure only to sign the hottest up and coming artists and when it came to making hits, he was that deal.

“What’s good my boy?” Jaxon may have been going on 55, but he didn’t look a day over 35.

The few gray hairs he had didn’t take away from his boyish look; it only enhanced his look. That six-five frame of his with the bulging muscles, dark skin, light brown eyes, and dimple in his chin made him stand out in any crowd. When Jaxon Reeves walked in a room, his presence commanded attention and he was sure to get it. Especially from the ladies. Qyree had learned from the best when it came to the women. Jaxon had taught him all that he knew and was proud of the masterpiece he had created.

“Chillin’. ‘Bout to shower and head over to the office to check on things before falling through this new chick’s spot.”

“Oh word? You put a new one on the roster?” Jaxon laughed.

“You already know how I do,” Qyree bragged.

“Indeed. Let me know what her mama looks like and maybe we can go on a double date.” Jaxon fell out laughing. They may have been laughing about it, but Qyree knew just how serious his father was. It was nothing for the two of them to hook up with a mother and daughter then move on to the next.

After chopping it up for a few more minutes and getting some info from his father that he needed to take to the office, Qyree headed towards his initial destination. Just like before, he stopped to talk, only this time it was to his mother. She was alone in her bedroom, kneeling down at the foot of her bed with her head down. Once he heard her say ‘Amen’, he knew that she was praying.

“What’s going on, gorgeous?”

“Hey handsome,” she smiled.

Qyree’s mother, Zaria was a beautiful woman inside and out. She was a short little something with her flawless dark skin, short hair that she kept naturally curly; her lips were full and her eyes were the prettiest shade of brown Qyree had ever seen in his life. But her eyes showed nothing but sadness any time she looked at him and he knew exactly why.

“What you doing in the house instead of out shopping or hanging with Auntie Zina?”

Walking over to him, she embraced him before maneuvering her way back to the bench that sat at the foot of her bed.

“I just needed some time to talk to the Lord, baby,” she said looking out of the window.

“Everything alright?” Qyree asked having an idea of what was wrong.

Looking up at him, Zaria gave a weak smile. If there was one woman in this world that he would give his all to, it was his mother. Whenever he saw her like this, he wanted to do whatever he could to make it better, but he knew this wasn’t a problem he could fix.

“I’m just tired baby, that’s all. Almost 30 years and nothing has changed,” she said.

Taking a seat beside her, he placed his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close to him. He loved his father and was just like him, but this was his mother. The first and only woman that he had ever loved and would give his life for. He could never understand why his father felt the need to constantly have affair after affair. It wasn’t like she was just a jump-off like the women he ran through but the one who had carried his children and the one he made a vow to God with.

“Why do you stay then, Ma?” he wanted to know.

For years he wondered why his mother stayed with his father when he was blatantly disrespecting her with other women. Qyree remembered like it was yesterday, the first time his father had gotten caught with his pants down. Literally.

***

Twenty Years Ago

Zaria had just left in the car that was supposed to take her to the airport. She had a scheduled flight out to Los Angeles to attend an event with Jaxon. It was last minute because her boss had been tripping about letting her off in time, and she was unsure if she was going to be able to make it.

That was one of the things that Qyree’s parents were constantly arguing about. Jaxon wanted her to stay home and let him spoil her, while Zaria loved her job as a Registered Nurse. She felt like that was her calling to be able to help people and she loved every minute of it. Zaria had gotten so many accolades for her excellent and dedicated service as a nurse and she knew that was all God’s doing.

Qyree sat in the living room hard at work playing ‘Super Smash Bros’ on his brand new Nintendo 64. He was so hype because he had been the first one out of his friends to get it even before it hit stores. His mother had been gone for almost an hour and he was just getting into his game good when he heard the front door open and close. A few seconds later he saw his father come in carrying one of his overnight bags and his driver was bringing in the rest.

“Hey son. What you doing?” Jaxon asked as he walked over to his son.

“Super Smash Bros and it’s so cool!”

“I’m glad you like it. Where’s Toni?” he asked referring to their live-in nanny. She had been hired not too long ago against Zaria’s wishes. So far things were good having her there. She made sure that any and everything that was needed to be done got done in a timely manner, and she loved Qyree like he was her own.

“She’s in her room,” Qyree said, never taking his eyes off of the television.

Jaxon got up and unbeknownst to Qyree headed straight for her room and shut the door behind him. Qyree paused the game because he heard what sounded like bumping into a wall. Making his way to the hall he did his best to pinpoint where it was coming from.

He and his parents’ bedrooms were upstairs, and there was a spare bed downstairs right off of the living room. The knocking wasn’t faint but it was still loud enough to know that it wasn’t coming from the upstairs. Just as he got to Toni’s door, he heard his father grunt at the same time the front door was opening again.

Running down the hallway, he ran right into his mother. Looking up into her face, he saw that she had been crying and a feeling that something wasn’t right came over him. It was at that moment that he knew there was about to be a problem.

“Baby, is Daddy home?” Zaria asked kneeling in front of him.

Nodding his head, he told her yes and waited. Zaria was taking slow deep breaths and wiping tear after tear for a few minutes, before she hugged him tight and held on as if her life depended on it.

“Qy, I need you to go to your room and close your door, okay? Don’t come out until I tell you to,” she instructed.

Without another word, Qyree went in his room like he was asked to do, only to open it slightly after a few seconds. At the angle his room sat at the top of the stairs he could look right down and see Toni’s room. He watched as his mother stood there crying silently, as her shoulders shook and she repeatedly opened and closed her hands into tight fists.

Before Qyree could even blink again, his mother had burst into the room and Toni screamed. He couldn’t make out what was being said but what he did know was that his father was quiet. He knew Jaxon was in there because he heard him, so why wasn’t he talking and trying to calm his mother down?

“This is what we do now, Jaxon? You sleeping with the help!” Zaria yelled as she went after Toni again.

“Get her off of me Jaxon!” Toni screamed as he just stood there with a satisfied smirk on his face.

“You better fight back is all I can tell you.”

It wasn’t until Qyree burst into the room that Jaxon took control of the situation.

“Get off my mommy!” Qyree said as he tried his best to pull his mother off of his babysitter. Why was Miss Toni naked, he wondered, and why was his father putting his clothes back on in a hurry?

Pulling the two of them apart, Qyree could now see that he probably should have been helping Miss Toni because her face was all bruised and scratched up and his mother didn’t have a hair out of place. He watched as Toni scrambled to get her body covered, while his mother walked over and slapped the life out of his father.

“Again, Jax?”

Looking at Zaria, Jaxon walked over to where Toni was now sitting fully dressed.

“You did this?” he asked her.

“I sure did. I’m tired of playing these games with you and waiting on you to leave her so we can be together,” Toni boldly stated.

“Baby girl, let me tell you something. I will never be replaced and especially not by you. If it wasn’t for us hiring you, you wouldn’t have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of,” Zaria spoke up.

“Oh really? Tell her, Jaxon. Tell her how you are tired of her putting her job and church before her family. Tell her how you told me that now since I’m pregnant you have a reason to leave for good this time.

“Pregnant?” Zaria whispered.

It was at that moment that Qyree saw his father’s ears produce smoke because he was so mad. He didn’t understand what all of this meant but he knew what pregnant was. His father was indeed having a baby by someone that wasn’t his mother.

SLAP!

The force of the slap that landed across Jaxon’s face from Zaria’s hand had probably rearranged the nerves in his whole head. That’s just how much power it had behind it.

“Not only have you broken our vows but you got your mistress pregnant too?”

There was no sadness in her voice or face for that matter like it was a few minutes ago. It was now unadulterated anger and it had taken over.

“You have two minutes to get your stuff and get out of my house,” Zaria told Toni but kept her eyes fixed on her husband.

“I’m not going anywhere unless Jaxon tells me to,” Toni said defiantly.

Turning around slowly like the girl in the movie ‘The Exorcist’, Zaria gave Toni the look of death before she spoke in a voice that Qyree had never in his life heard before. His mother was always so sweet and loving and now she was in here fussing and fighting. And it was all at the hands of his father.

“You can walk out or you can get bodied and carried out. The choice is yours.”

Before Toni could respond Jaxon stepped in.

“You heard my wife. Better hurry up too because you’re down to a minute and ten seconds,” he said folding his arms and leaning up against the dresser.

“Really Jaxon? You gonna treat me like this? After all of the nights you lay beside me and confess your love for me and our unborn child. Filling my head with the hopes of us being a real family. Telling me how she puts God and her job before you,” Toni revealed.

“Oh, so this is what you told her Jaxon? When will you come up with something different to tell your harem?”

The look on Toni’s face was complete shock at the revelation of not being Jaxon’s only woman. But Jaxon was even more shocked than she was, to know that Zaria knew about the others.

Laughing, Zaria continued. “Yes, Jaxon darling, I know about Megan and Kimberly. They made sure I knew too by constantly calling or coming to my job. I guess they thought by doing that I would leave you and let them step in and take my place. Let’s be clear,” Zaria said looking over at Toni, “I’m the one with the last name, the house, the child, and the bank accounts. Jaxon will never leave me because it was me that helped him start this record company with the money from the job and prayer from the God that I love so much. You are nothing but something to do and he will never respect you.”

“You mean like he respects you by sleeping with other women? You’re no better than I am because you share him with me. Obviously, everything that you mentioned having still doesn’t make him want to be faithful,” Toni retorted.

As true as that statement was, Zaria wasn’t about to give her the satisfaction of knowing it.

“Your time’s up and you need to leave,” was all she said. There was nothing left to say because in that moment it didn’t matter. Once again, Jaxon had broken yet another promise that he would never do this again, but he had.

Grabbing Qyree’s hand, Zaria walked to the stairs and began to head in the direction of his room, as he looked over his shoulder at Toni screaming and kicking to avoid being thrown out on her behind.

“I’m sorry you had to see that, baby. Just know that everything will work out and God will fix this, okay?” Zaria explained once they were in his room.

Once again nodding his little head, Qyree was confused. How could the God they sat up in church on Sundays and Wednesdays and whenever else they wanted to call a meeting, be the same one to allow this to happen to his family?

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