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by
Jessica Cage
Started reading
December 6, 2024
“And you know, our dreams are where our deepest desires get to shine.
“Now, tell me why you would be upset about not hearing from a man who could be so careless with you?”
“Throw on top of that toxic recipe that I’m a black woman in the world that tells me every damn day that no matter how impressive I am, I’m unwanted. If I step outside of my race, I’m a traitor to my people. But then I’m finding more and more often that the black men, the men who should want me, who should uplift me, don’t. Not the way I am. They’re stuck on having women be submissive, but they give us nothing to submit to.
Whenever the conversations got too deep, Metice would rub my feet. I had no complaints about it.
Then—I almost lost it when he did this—he detangled and twisted my hair! I couldn’t believe it. This man, no, this demon, was gently combing my hair and putting in near-perfect two-strand twists while I soaked in a lavender-scented tub. It was too good to be true, but I didn’t fight it.