Cutthroat

by Octavia Grant

“Do I look stupid to you? I may be a good woman, but I ain’t never been a dumb bitch.

His selfish ways had unleashed the bad side of a good woman.

Eden cried silently. She was walking into the operating room with two heartbeats and walking out with one. Envy and Jermaine would pay dearly for that.

“Relationship goals? I never understood why women say they want a man just like their dad. When they don’t know what they’re asking for. You knew Everett as a father, not as a man. We have two very different views of one person. Do you understand?” Marie asked.

Smiling faces sometimes hide the most pain.

“Bring him into the Garden of Eden, baby girl,” Marie said proudly as she bit into her apple.

You missed your brother, so I replaced the one that you lost. I’m your mama now, nigga,” Eden said proudly.

“It ain’t no fun when the rabbits’ got the gun,”

If you have a good woman, then be a good man If you’re unfaithful, you need to quit. You’ll lose everything once she finds out And she gets on her cutthroat shit.