Spirit Of The Jackass

“He’s still going to sleep in my bed tonight.” She roared.

“Yep! And you’ll be sleeping and having sex with every one of the women that he’s had since you two have been married.  Janelle, you have all the signs of a desperate woman. You’ve begged him to have lunch with you, your treat of course. I wonder why he couldn’t change his plans to join you? You’ve bought him clothes, and sponsor trips. You are what we usta call, in the streets, a “Sugar-mama. Where’s your self-worth?”

“You want him for yourself that’s all? I know it!” Janelle shouted.

“Wait a minute.” Dallas laughed. “Didn’t you say that you, the woman he made a vow to, has a trust issue with --- your man?”

“Yeah.  But that’s something we’ll work on between ourselves.”

“Fine. But honey? if you have a trust issue with him, and you say that “God” gave him to you, what in the name of the Glorious Heaven do you think me or any other woman, with self worth and spiritual prowess, would want with him. No self-respecting woman wants a cheating man or a man that can’t be trusted? You’ve even lied on God Himself and that’s dangerous. But desperate women don’t care. It’s sorta like a drowning person.  He or she will grab onto a twig to save themselves even though they know there is no way that the twig can help them. D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E. You’re not an ignorant; you’ve gone to college. You do know what that spells and what it means.. right?.”  Then Micah interrupted.

“You calling me a dog, Dallas?”  Dallas couldn’t believe that, “he’d”, been his only concern. She called him on his self-centered outburst.

“Oh-- Now you speak up? I see. You only talk when your character is in question? When you’re on the frontline or when your reputation is at stake? I’ve blown your wife up and all you’re concerned about is you?” Dallas laughed under her breath before spewing out her frustration.

“I’ve had enough of this nonsense.”  Then she went for the jugular.

“When you kiss, “your man”, Janelle, have you ever noticed a seductive fragrance on him? It’s the scent of another woman on him. Oh. Right. You think it’s new cologne he’s trying out. How you can lay up with him, knowing for a fact, he’s been with another woman or other women is beyond me.  He’s told everyone who’d listen that you can’t really satisfy him, spiritually, emotionally, or physically?  Are you sticking it out because you want an anointed man or just a man in the limelight? Is your desperation holding you hostage to the point that you’ll stand for anything, just to have his last name? And that so-called, “vision”, that you had about Micah cheating? Why didn’t you see yourself in it since you haven’t really been truly honest with him from day one?”

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Patrice had thought the entire situation was hilarious. She too continues to be one of Micah’s women.  His reason for spending time at Patrice’s new house, so he would tell Janelle, was that he was going over there to talk business regarding their daughter. At one time Patrice had even tried to tell Janelle about what she and Micah had going on but Janelle had refused to accept the truth. So, Patrice simply decided to continue to do what she wanted with Micah. She used Janelle as the butt end of her jokes. When Patrice was with some of her family and friends she would share the torrid details of her affair with her ex-husband. She didn’t want him back; she’d simply enjoyed the sex.

Dallas had come to realize that Janelle’s strong manipulative spirit and compromise had contaminated the once humble and God-fearing spirit of Micah.  Now both were spurious and had contaminated Micah’s daughter, ....