Sasha stopped in front of a newspaper stand and bought the morning papers, scanning through the front page, she couldn’t believe what she was seeing, when did it happen? How come she doesn’t know of this? She glanced at the date and found out that it has been on the news for the past two weeks, the date struck her. That was the period Michael started acting up and then within a few short seconds, she finally figured it out after putting two and two together. No wonder he changed, no wonder he went back to stalking her, doubting her. It turned out this was the news and he didn’t tell her? He hid it from her and he punished her in the process.Anger boiled inside her and she couldn’t take it as she started her car and drove with one destination in mind: Brown’s Empire.As she drove into the building, she parked at the lot and grabbing the morning papers, she climbed out of the car. She stepped into the reception and all eyes turned on her before, “Good afternoon, Mrs. Brown,” started ra

Gary parked in front of the garage and wanted to get down and open the backseat door for Michael when he heard, “don’t worry, I will get it. Go home.”“You okay, Michael?” Gary asked, he knew he was not okay and for the first time since they became friends, he was lacking on what to say to him.“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?” Michael asked, opening the door and climbing out of the car. Gary glanced at the envelop lying on the seat and sighed, Michael had refused to show him what was inside but he knew whatever it was, was not something good and he just hoped that it had nothing to do with Sasha.Michael picked up the enveloped and put it in his briefcase before walking over to the house. He climbed the stairs on the porch and as Gary turned the car, he honked at him but he didn’t glance back and Gary had to sigh and drive off. Placing his hand on the door knob, Michael closed his eyes and heaved a deep sigh before turning the knob. He pushed open the door to see Chris sitting on the dolphi

Sasha quickly ran outside to the garage and saw Michael getting into his car, “where are you going?”“Anywhere that is not here,” he replied.“What do you mean by that?”“What don’t you understand? I don’t want to be here at the moment, what’s hard to understand there?”“You are leaving home because we have an argument? Really, that’s how you do things now? Instead of waiting to see how we are going to sort out our issues, your best decision is to leave home?”“Sort out our issue? What’s there to sort out? Listen if you want us to sort our issue then you would start by telling me the truth, stop lying to me and just be truthful for once.”“I am truthful but you are the one that don’t want to believe me, I mean what’s hard to believe there? I went to McDonalds on request of Janet and I bumped into Craig. I didn’t tell you about it yesterday because I didn’t want us to have a fight, I didn’t want this,” she moved her hand from herself to him, “to be happening.”“And your best idea to pr

The sound resounded through the whole house. Sasha stared at Michael in shock with her palm stinging from the slap. It took only a second for her to recall what he said and what pushed her into slapping him. “I’m sorry,” she whispered, “I’m…I’m really sorry, your words it…Michael, I…” her vision was already clouded with tears, “I’m trying my best to be a good mother and you just…” she sniffled as the tears came pouring down. “I will never abandon the kids in school, never, not for any reason. I did not meet up with Craig; if you really doubt me you can call your mother and confirm if I really called her this afternoon. Also I…” she sniffled, wiping away the tears, “I was with the girls this evening. You can investigate if you want, we were in the restaurant across the office, we all lost track of time and we all rushed home to make dinner. I will never leave the children in school, I have never done it before and I never will,” she started sobbing. “I’m really sorry for slapping you,

Sasha didn’t move an inch, she just stood staring at him. She heard something broke and it took only a second to realize that it was her heart. She knew he was going through a lot and she just wished that he wouldn’t push her away and just confide in her. She sucked in a deep breath, wiping away the tear that slipped down her cheek and took a determined step towards him.“Don’t test my patience, Sasha,” he warned.Sasha paused but after a second, she continued, “we can sort it out together, Michael,” she whispered, “you don’t have to push me away. You don’t have to push us away. We can handle it, whatever it is.”“I just want to be alone,” he said.“We are not leaving, Michael, stop pushing us away. We can…”“Get out,” he looked at her now, “just…leave. You are the last person I want to see now.”If his previous words didn’t hurt her before, this was the last straw. She was trying so hard to hold herself from breaking down, in as much as she wants to, she remembered her kids were stil