Torn Apart (African American Romance) Read Online Free Page B

that for this new chapter in my life that she may be able to live up better to the new saved me. Plus, you have a lot going on in your life-I don’t want to hold you back.”
    Rhonda could not believe that he had the nerve to say these things and be so smug about it. She thought she was content with things ending but she wasn’t expecting it to go down like this. This felt too much like betrayal to Rhonda and it was now all coming out.
    “Oh really? Well, g ood for you pastor,“ Rhonda said as she slowly got up with the intent of playing it cool but her emotions would not let that continue. “I wish your punk ass and your new pussy, oops I mean old pussy, a happy future together.” Rhonda kept a calm tone that even surprised her. She turned around and tried to remain calm in her walk because her heart was broken and the tears were fighting her to come falling out of her eyes but she refused to let David see them. David expected her to react in such an irrational manner like most of the females that he dealt with; this would have made him feel better about ending things but her calmness, although sprinkled with some colorful words, made him question whether or not he was making a big mistake. In addition David was quite turned on by this sexy, confident side of Rhonda that he was seeing coming from her now. He started to call out to her but by that point Rhonda was to her car starting it up and getting ready to leave his life, and he was not sure if that’s what he wanted after all.
                  Rhonda drove off with tears streaming down her face to the point where she could barely see. She pulled over in the next block to get herself together and decide where she was going. She couldn’t go to her parents’ house looking like this so she sat in the car for another 15 minutes before she decided to drive the 10 minutes to the apartment complex that Dana had recently moved into. After high school graduation, Dana had decided to stay in town to continue working her high school job and start community college. When Rhonda would come home during her visits she would usually connect with her. Rhonda saw Dana’s white car in the parking lot outside of her building so she parked and ran up the stairs leading to her apartment. Dana knocked on her friend’s door for about two minutes and was about to turn around and leave when she heard the door open. Dana was wrapped up in her bathrobe with an anxious look on her face. A male voice was shouting from the distance telling Dana to hurry up.
    “Oh Dana, I’m sorry —I see this isn’t a good time. I just needed to talk but we can talk later,” Rhonda said as she tried not to look Dana in the face and rush off.
    “Rhonda, have you been crying?” Dana stepped out grabbing Rhonda by the arm.
    Rhonda slowly turned around and broke down. “David and I just broke up. He’s going to stay here and become a preacher. It’s ok though, things haven’t been the same in a while anyway, but this still caught me off guard. Dana, seriously, I’ll be fine. Go back to your company or doing whatever you were doing. I should have called first anyway. I’ll call you tomorrow ok?”
    Rhonda took off back down the stairs, got in her car and started driving. She felt embarrassed for intruding on Dana and decided she would just go home, pack up her things and head back to campus tonight instead of waiting until tomorrow. Her parents ended up not being at home when she got there; they had left a note saying they were out to dinner with friends. Rhonda rushed to her room and grabbed all of her things to take to the car. Luckily she had not been there long enough to unpack her overnight back. She left her parents a note saying she had to go back because she had decided to take an extra shift for work, and then she got on the highway heading back to school. Rhonda felt as if it was time for her to move forward and not look back. Sure, this was her hometown but she did not want to