The Tempted and The Temptress

Chapter 18

I woke up that Saturday morning to a ringing phone.  I was tired, after trying to wait up for Tammy, I must have been relieved at the weight of everything, that I fell asleep in the middle of the night.  I woke up to a soft body curled around me in that smelled like the ocean breeze and I knew it was her.  I pulled her up on my arms and didn’t want to let her go.  Her embrace fit perfectly around me.

            But the ringing would not stop.

            “Reluctantly, I pulled away from her warmth.

            “Hello,” I answered with a slight annoyance in my voice.

            “How could you not tell me you were married.”

            I fell back onto the bed. That’s not how I wanted to my mom to find out about Tammy.

            “And a child, too?  What’s worse is that you even told Malcolm about the baby.  What have I done to make you disrespect me so,” said Yvette, scolding me.  Yvette was a bombshell in every sense of the word.  At 60, she was a gorgeous woman who was still stylish and took care of her body so that she didn’t look any more than 40 on a good day.  She was also headstrong, and spoke her mind. When she entered the room, everyone looked and because of this attention she created, Yvette made sure that Malcolm and I were always in top shape so that no public scandals that weren’t accounted for.  So to know that her family was in the public eye with something that she didn’t know about ahead of time was a faux pas that couldn’t be overlooked.

            “ I can explan,” I started.  Tammy stirred fro a second, so I got out of the bed and went downstairs, I sat down on the living room on the chair, because I know I would be in for a long one.

            “Well you had better, because I do not like finding that my morning gossip has my family’s name on it without my hand in the orchestration. Who is this Tammy?  Is she someone I know?  What is the s*x of the baby? We need to figure out a way to formally present them not to society.”

            “Come over for lunch today.  We can discuss this better after we’ve had something to eat.  You can then meet Tammy and ask all the questions you need.”

            “I was thinking about that fact that you would say that.”

            “How long will you be?” I asked, looking for a clock.

            “Just open the door I’m standing and your doorstop.”

            “What?” I said, jumping up.  “What time is it?”