Free BWWM Interracial Romance 3: Family Heart by Elena Brown

since Jessica had met Rosanna, she had felt inferior to the beautiful woman; it seemed unfair that someone could get her shape back so thoroughly after having a child, and even if she’d been twenty pounds heavier, Rosanna would still have been a beautiful woman. Long and lean, she was exactly the kind of woman that Jessica could easily picture Logan falling in love with. Jessica had never had cause to feel ashamed of her full curves, her lush breasts and strong thighs—but next to Rosanna, she felt like an overcooked sausage, splitting its casing.
    “I’m sure it’s nothing,” Jessica said. “Like you said, they have a son together—it’s not like they’d never see each other.” Charity shrugged.
    “They didn’t see much of each other after he left her, but then she was all tied up with that guy. Ever since she’s been on the market again, she’s been hanging around Logan like she wants him back.” Jessica brushed the comment aside and insisted that there was nothing to it, but her mind couldn’t dismiss it—not entirely. She had just started to realize how much Logan had meant to her—just started to reconcile her feelings of guilt and grief—and now Rosanna was trying to get her ex-husband back, trying to take away the man that Jessica had come to love. It would only be too easy for Logan to go back to his wife, Jessica knew; there had to be an element of comfort in their long-standing relationship. She took a deep breath and managed to get through the evening, leaving after she’d finished her margarita and going back home.
    Jessica’s anger started to rise even before she arrived at home. She had put aside her doubts, she had committed herself—as much as she could—to Logan, and he was spending time with his ex-wife. She couldn’t shake the feeling that it was far more than just him maintaining a relationship with the mother of his child. Jessica’s mother had already gone to bed, though it wasn’t late; Jessica paced the floor of her bedroom, wondering if Logan really was with the accountant he said that he had to meet with—or if he was, instead, with his ex-wife. Her eyes burned and stung with tears she couldn’t bring herself to shed until she had gotten to the bottom of the situation. Jessica kept looking at her phone, waiting for it to ring, even as her frustration grew. She knew that she had done wrong by Logan when she had pushed him away, but the fact that he hadn’t even thought to tell her about all the time he was spending with Rosanna rankled. If only he had given her some forewarning, some explanation, instead of letting her hear about it from one of their mutual friends.
    As she waited, Jessica snatched up her phone; she knew one source she could go to. She scrolled through her contacts list and found Gail’s number. Jessica called her friend, throwing herself into her bed and gritting her teeth as the phone rang once, twice—and then her friend picked up. “Hey, girl—aren’t you and Logan usually hanging out at a time like this?” Jessica took a deep breath.
    “Charity said something about how Logan is spending a lot of time with Rosanna lately,” she said, chewing her bottom lip as tears threatened once more to spill from her eyes. “Is—he said he had to stay late to meet with an accountant. Do you know anything about that?” There was a pause on the other end of the line, and Jessica felt her heart starting to beat faster and faster.
    “I know he’s staying late at the office,” Gail said, her tone guarded. “I can’t—I don’t know for sure that there’s an accountant there, but I would have thought he’d have finished up by now.” Jessica closed her eyes and took a slow, deep breath.
    “Thanks, Gail. I’ll just… wait for him to call me, I guess.” Gail suggested that they should meet up in a few days for happy hour—and Jessica agreed. She thought that if she found out the worst about Logan, she would certainly need to go out and have a few