Quasim III: King Inferno (Season Four: Inferno Gods Book 3)

by Jahquel J.

How can I love you if I don’t know your pain?”

Fuck soft girl era. He put me in my secure girl era. A place where I felt safe, seen, and secured. Although I had been married in the past, it was a place that I had never visited.

I love my mother, and I know our relationship has been tense for the past few years. The minute that I came to the realization that she is just a girl too… a girl living life for the first time, I extended grace.

I saw her hide the tears during the day and shed them at night because it was hard. Even with a good job and strong head on her shoulders, being a parent was hard. You would always feel like you weren’t doing enough, or you could have done better.

“I’m tired of trying to decode a man who won’t even hand me the key,

The problems you wrestled with before saying I do didn’t disappear. They were just louder once the vows were made.

marriage had a way of revealing what you thought you buried.