Finding My Way To You : A Redemption Love Story

by Briyanna Michelle

have worked remotely since I started running out of excuses as to why I would show up with a black eye to the job.

“We are closed, sir; I must ask you to leave now.”

“How many times I gotta tell you to stop being the last one in this place, Phoenix?

not safe for you to be here alone.”

“Answer my question, Kendrix, and back up. We wouldn’t want you to make another mistake.”

I love him; I always have, but sometimes love isn’t enough.

“Get over it, Kendrix. There are plenty of men who would want to be with me.

You can walk out that door if you won’t give me what I need.”

want you… I need you, but there are things you don’t know about, and I can’t fix them right now.

but I can’t do this, watch you be with someone else when you know you belong to me.”

sound of him backhanding her across the face all those years ago never let me forget it.

wished I was big enough to get at him, but I couldn’t fight him off her yet.

Her brown skin was marred in scratches, and she had a slightly black eye after he got upset that the food was too cold.

Brian did not give me all of the details. I was too

busy calming him down from catching a murder charge.”

My ears were tuned into my mother’s wails and praying for forgiveness from God.

had to force the smile off my face for us finally being free of him.

Her skin was the color of fresh soil my mama used to plant a few veggies in before my dad destroyed them.

I’m this man trying to fix everything

everyone else messed up.

while it was okay to like her,

needed to learn her to make sure I could be everything she needed.

“Phoenix, I am nothing without my abba father;

has gotten me through the roughest times in my life.

I love you, but that doesn’t quite sum up how I feel;

I want you to be my wife one day and the mother of my children.

‘Kendrix baby, this is only a season we are going through;

we will get through this.

You hold on to God and sta...

“When did you get this bear?”

There are mini cameras in this thing

The red light means that it’s been recording you,

“I did it,” His tone was cold and detached, “I killed my father.”

At first, he would wait until I was out of the room

or asleep to smack her,

he couldn’t control his rage and would make...

To run away from a man who admitted that

he saved his mother’s life and very much his own,

You saved yourself and your mother,

how can you not see that?

“It was your mom. She found out

she overheard Grandma Lucy and me talking

“She promised to tell the police everything,

I would be sitting in jail for the rest of my life.

Jewel, will you do me the greatest honor and be my wife?”