Free Fool and Her Honey (9781622860791) by Kimberly T. Matthews

me.”
    â€œHow is that?” he questioned.
    â€œWell, clearly, your assets are important to you, which is why you want me to sign a prenup, right?”
    â€œOkay,” he said in a “Go on” kind of way.
    â€œWhat’s important to me is my heart, and that’s what I want to protect.”
    â€œHow is you trying to take my house protecting your heart?”
    â€œIn my opinion, when you cheat on your spouse, you rob them of a happy home, so that’s what you need to replace. There’s no peace, love, and happiness inside four walls where someone has violated the marriage vows by cheating. So to make up for ripping away a happy home, the cheater has to replace it with a home that is just as valuable, where the injured spouse can live in peace.” Sounded fair to me.
    â€œThat’s not right!” Bertrand barked.
    â€œWhy not?” He was really going to have to explain his point of disagreement to me.
    â€œBecause it’s not!”
    â€œAnd if you were to cheat on me, that wouldn’t be right, either.”
    â€œWhy wouldn’t you just go back to living in your own apartment? Why would you try to take my house?”
    â€œAgain, I am not trying to take anything. I’m only trying to protect what is most important to me. A house can be replaced, money can be remade, sofas and televisions and whatnot can be rebought, but you can’t unbreak a heart, and I want to be assured that number one, you won’t do that, and number two, if you do, there are consequences for it.” I didn’t see why he was giving me so much flack on this point.
    â€œSo if you cheat, then what?”
    â€œI told you, the same thing goes for me. Wherever we live at the time the indiscretion is found out, whatever the value of that particular home is, I’d have to pay you that in cash.”
    â€œThat doesn’t sound right,” he huffed.
    â€œWhy do you have a problem with it? Are you planning on cheating?”
    â€œIt’s just not right, Dina,” he repeated without answering my question. “I’ve worked hard for everything that I have, and for you to just try to come in and take it all from me . . .” He trailed off.
    â€œSounds like you might be a cheater to me.”
    â€œIt ain’t even like that.”
    â€œThen what is it like? For me it’s no big deal.”
    â€œBecause you don’t have what I have,” he retorted.
    â€œAnd you can keep all your stuff as long as you don’t cheat. I don’t see where the problem lies.”
    Bertrand pushed a heavy sigh into my ear. “I gotta think about this one.”
    â€œTake your time. I’m not signing this document without that being added.”
    â€œThat’s just like a woman,” he mumbled under his breath, but audibly enough for me to hear him.
    â€œExcuse me?”
    â€œI’ll get back to you about it.”
    â€œOkay. Cool,” I stated before he uttered an obligatory “Love you.”
    â€œLove you too,” I said, almost too jubilantly.
    I tossed the document on the floor beside my bed and leaned back on my pillows. Well played, ma’am. Well played. The only thing was, I was having serious doubts about moving into his home, but now I couldn’t afford not to.

Chapter 10
    Candis
    I didn’t believe in purpose. I didn’t believe that people were born to carry out a specific mission in life. I was sick of people asking me, “What’s your purpose?” Hell if I knew. I thought that if people were honest, they would admit that it was by happenstance that they’d become who they became. I’d heard too many stories of people saying, “I had no intentions on being a pastor, but God had other plans.” Or “When Sister Lettie prophesied over me and told me I was going to be a powerful first lady, I said to myself, ‘She didn’t hear from God.’ But sure enough, here I