Marcus POV
I saw Florence enter the house
shortly after Amari, but I was playing with Finley and couldn’t stop her. She
was angry when I said she should just stay away from Amari today. She didn’t
understand why I was protecting Amari’s feelings over her own. I was quickly growing tired
of her selfish attitude. She refused to see things from Amari’s point of view,
to even stop and think about how all of this would affect her. I knew I held
fault there since it came across to her as if I cared more about how Amari felt
than how she felt. I couldn’t properly explain it to her since I couldn’t
explain it to myself, but I didn’t want Florence antagonizing her further after
their first encounter.
“What were you doing?” I asked as
she walked into the room to meet me.
“Nothing, I wanted to say hello. It
did not seem she was going to speak.”
“Why? You are here to meet our
children, not talk to her. I asked you to just leave her alone. Especially after the
last meeting you had with her.”
I tried to see what the conversation
was about, but she was actively thinking about anything other than what just
transpired. That fact alone was enough to let me know whatever it was, it
wasn’t as innocent as she wanted to claim.
“You know what, never mind. Just go
back outside please. I’ll be out in a minute.”
“Marc?”
“Just go! Florence please. I just
need a minute.”
She started to argue with me but
then turned and headed back outside like I asked. I was making this worse for
her, and for myself. I knew looking at her, feeling her frustrations that I was
going to have to figure out a better way of dealing with all of this. I headed
up the stairs to find Amari. I knew she was planning on leaving and I wanted to
talk to her before she ran away again. She was walking out of our room as I got
to the top of the stairs.
“Going somewhere?”
By the way she hesitated before
responding I knew she was hoping to leave without having to talk to me.
“You are supposed to be introducing
your fiancée to our children. I’ve gotten everything set up so you can enjoy
the day letting them get to know her without things being awkward with me
hanging around.”
She attempted to step around me,
but I blocked her path forcing her to step back into the room. “Are you ever
going to stay in the same room with me for more than five minutes? I want to talk to you, no, I need to talk to
you yet you deny me.”
“We don’t have anything to talk
about Marcus. You are engaged to be married, our time is over. We just have to
work out things where the kids are concerned.” She replied sounding very
annoyed. If anyone had the right to be annoyed and frustrated right now it was
me.
“Damn it! Why are you so intent on
making this so much harder for me?”
“What? I’m trying my best to get
out of your way but you won’t let me.”
