Cutthroat

by Octavia Grant

“just move on,” but where’s the fun in that?

The only thing that would make us even was some good Old Testament retribution.

Could she travel with a newborn?

Girl you know damn well you cant

Of all the things she expected to see today, seeing the man that begged her to start a family less than an hour ago, walking into a cheap motel with her flesh and blood was not

“Dr. Young, I am of sound mind and body. I’m not under pressure. Can you please perform the abortion? I won’t ask twice. I’ll use a coat hanger and scrape his ass out before I beg you to do your job,”

Damn

“Eden, please don’t do this,”

Girl shut up

“It’s for the best. I can’t miss a man that was never mine and I can’t miss a baby that I don’t want.” She lied.

“Envy is your sister. She’s Everett’s love child,”

Ikyfl

Men lie. I taught you girls that a long time ago,”

It was God’s job to forgive him, not mine.

Clock it

I always said I wanted a man just like my dad,”

I bet you wont say it no more

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?”

Paying someone to make her a widow was $3,000 well spent.

Damn it just keeps going

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

So many nights he prayed for a do-over or a lie he could use to save himself.

Ofc you still want to lie

“You didn’t know how to share them with me, but you knew how to share them with Envy?”

“Then you have to explain what it’s like Jermaine. I don’t understand. I mean, I tried to be a great wife. I tried to be everything you wanted me to be. I-” “And that was the problem! You don’t know how to stand up for yourself!” Jermaine snapped and immediately regretted it. Eden gasped a real gasp. His outburst had caught her off guard.

Girl me too

“Get out of your feelings. He said what he said. Add that slick comment to the list of shit you’re about to make him regret.

He laughed.

Girl whos that?

6 months later…

SIX MONTHS?!?

Inmate #307625

Girllllll dont tell me it was his daddy

it’s Big Jerry’s replica. So, to make a long story short, Little JJ here belongs to your daddy. That’s why you all look alike. You missed your brother, so I replaced the one that you lost. I’m your mama now, nigga,”

Girl WTFFFF

“You son of a dead bitch!”

Girl now you know you cat say that lol

Someone saw fit to post bail for your baby launching ass,”

“It sure wasn’t your wife or little brother,” The Officer advised. That line was so funny to him that he slapped his knee.

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

“Isn’t that what Jerry said to your dead mama?”

She dont gaf

It turns out that Jerry’s brother Jackson was Josiah’s actual father.

The shoe literally keep dropping

I don’t know why, but Jerry somehow thought that he and I would be together. This man killed two women, his stepson, and he thought I’d be his next wife. Be for fucking real.