Chapter Fourteen
Romey's cheeks were heated as she stepped into the cool enclosure of her hydroponic garden. She put her hands to her cheeks. She couldn’t see the redness on her face, but her skin certainly was warm enough to indicate that she was blushing. Despite being a darker tone of skin, her flesh was just creamy enough to redden.
Romey couldn't exactly blame it on her mother. Despite her fair skin, Mariam Capulano never blushed. The woman was fearless. Mariam had tried to join the Black Panther Party…as a white woman. It was her mother that had taught Romey to shoot, that had taught her to never back down to injustice, and to believe in her principles.
It was Romey’s father who had taught her that she did have a romantic side. Jerome Capulano had loved the Victorian classics. Des
