Tell Me Series

At thirty-seven years of age, I haven’t taken the plunge, nor do I plan to. I’ve seen the damage love can do. It pretends to care, but then it tears a person down. It’s manipulative. Damaging. It lies. It hurts. It makes one weak. I know that all too well after seeing what it did to my dear mother. That’s why when women – beautiful, successful women – try to get my attention, I easily shun them. All of them. They see the exceptionally fine, black man with money. They know nothing of the dark secrets I carry – secrets I can never share with anyone.

I’ve never known love like this. It’s potent. Life-changing. It changed mine and now I can’t live without her. The problem is, I don’t necessarily get along with her family–not because I don’t like them. It’s the other way around. She brushes it off, but I’m against anything and anyone who threatens my relationship. My marriage. My happiness. My obsession.

Secrets…they can tear a family apart. They can tear a person apart. When that person is Livia Halifax, that’s a problem for me. She’s my air. She’s all I have and I need her to be okay. Besides…I’ve kept enough from her, but little did I know I wasn’t the only one with secrets. Her family, her life and everything she knows is one big lie. And she has no clue. What do I do about it? I do my job – I love her. I love her from the highest peaks to the lowest valleys. I flood her with attention, cater to her, and keep her the center of my world.