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on
your Myrtle Beach trip?” Dimitrius asked.
    “ None. We barely
hugged.”
    “ Ouch,” Dimitrius
said.
    “ Jeez. And I thought I had
problems,” Dante added.
    “ Well, the trip did give us
time alone to de-stress, but that’s all.” Desmond shook his head.
“It’s okay, though. I can handle it. I’ve practiced self-restraint
before I married Sherita, so I have no issues waiting until she’s
comfortable with sex again. The thing is, she’s not handling any of
this well – the marriage, babies, her body. Don’t get me wrong…she
loves Celeste and Nolan but she will not accept any help. She feels
like she needs to do everything. She’s breastfeeding, not getting
enough sleep. Her blood pressure is up and down and she’s more
conscious of her body and the weight gain. She won’t even undress
in front of me.”
    “ She doesn’t look like
she’s gained that much weight,” Dante said.
    “ Well, she’s gained about
fifteen pounds. To a woman, one pound is a big deal,” Desmond
said.
    “ That’s true,” Dante
said.
    “ Did Emily or Melanie have
any postpartum issues?” Desmond inquired.
    Dante and Dimitrius both shook their
heads.
    “ If Melanie did have some
issues, she worked through them on her own because I never knew
anything about it.”
    “ Same with Emily, but it’s
different for every woman, I suppose,” Dante said. “If you’re
concerned about Sherita’s issues, then maybe you two should go to
the doctor to check it out together.”
    “ I would if Sherita was
willing, but she insists that she’s fine.” Desmond glanced down at
the glass, at the alcohol still there. His breath nearly escaped
him when he remembered how her eyes saddened right in front of him
– before they left the house this evening. He had to do more to
help her. Had to, whether she liked it or not.
    “ So, while me and Mel were
at the museum today, we ran into her ex,” Dimitrius said, deciding
that now was a good time for him to finish telling the story he
started earlier. “Well, actually, she ran into him. I had stepped
outside to take your call, Dante, and when I returned, I saw her
talking to the guy.”
    Desmond shrugged. “She was talking to
her ex. Big deal. She probably felt like she had to
speak.”
    Dimitrius frowned. “If you saw Sherita
talking to an ex, you wouldn’t feel a certain kind of way about
it?”
    “ Depends on what they were
talking about. If the guy looked like he was coming on to her, oh,
I would definitely have a problem with it,” Desmond
said.
    “ Well, Melanie wasn’t
flirting with him,” Dimitrius said. “The thing that irked me is,
this is the second time this fool has shown up someplace where
Melanie and I was. We saw him on another occasion when we were out
to dinner once.”
    Dante looked at Dimitrius. “Is that
the guy who left her because he thought she couldn’t have
children?”
    “ Yeah. That’s the one,”
Dimitrius confirmed. “Why would she have five words to say to the
dude? I mean, really. According to her, he broke up with via
voicemail, yet, she entertains this guy like he’s an old friend. I
don’t get that.”
    “ She was probably just
being polite,” Dante said.
    “ And, he asked her who
Grace was. You should’ve seen the look on his face when I walked up
and told him that Grace was our daughter. His mouth fell open, and
he looked at Melanie like he was having a hard time comprehending
what I’d just told him.”
    “ He probably realizes he
made a mistake with Melanie,” Dante said.
    “ Well, he’s going to
realize he’s unconscious if I ever find out he’s bothering my
family. He’s married with a son, yet he was staring at Melanie like
she’s the one that got away.”
    Desmond shook his head. “See, this is
where you have to have faith and trust in your woman.”
    “ I do trust her. It’s him I
don’t trust,” Dimitrius said, remembering the look in Scott’s eyes.
He was probably wondering how Melanie was able to have a baby