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her?” Joey asked.
     
    “ Meredith’s vindictive, as you can tell. The father wouldn’t see the girls ever again and plus, it was easier to just move than to break up a family.” Nicola shrugged.
     
    “ So you think Meredith is punishing Moni for her sins?” Kieran asked.
     
    “ Well, it makes sense,” Joey added, “and acting like we ain’t worth a second glance just furthers her case.”
     
    “ I thought that at first,” Nicola took a bite of terra cotta.
     
    The brothers glanced at each other with questionable looks. “So what is it?” Nick asked.
     
    “ I think Meredith is jealous of Moni for being with her true love,” Nicola answered, “and if she can’t be with her true love, well, neither can her daughter.”
     

Five

     
    “ Come on, ladies!” Charles Harris called up to the women of the house. He was a dark-skinned Black man with salt and pepper hair with matching mustache. He stood over six feet tall and had a muscular build. “We’re going to be late!”
     
    Alicia hurried downstairs, wearing tight jeans and a tighter tank top. “I’m ready.”
     
    Charles eyed his daughter’s attire. “You’re naked.” He stated.
     
    “ I’m fully covered,” Alicia grinned.
     
    “ Mmm-hmm,” Charles grunted.
     
    Meredith walked downstairs followed by Simone. Meredith looked like she was wearing her Sunday best with a mid-calf navy dress and pearls. Simone wore jeans and a sweater. “I don’t see why you had to get so dressed up like that, Mother.” Simone commented.
     
    “ There is nothing wrong with what I’m wearing,” Meredith replied. “I’m dressed like I’m always dressed.”
     
    “ Yeah, okay,” Simone knew her mother was intentionally trying to show off in front of Eli’s family. She didn’t know if she was more embarrassed for her or for her mother.
     
    Meredith walked up to Charles and straightened his attire. “We are only going to be there for dinner and that is it.”
     
    “ Simone, go wait out in the car with your sister.” Charles instructed to Simone, who promptly left. He then addressed his wife. “Don’t you think you’re overreacting here?”
     
    “ How am I overreacting? Are you forgetting what your daughter did the other day? We didn’t know where she was for hours, Charles!”
     
    “ Meredith, I know what Simone did was irresponsible and she is being properly punished. But I think you need to drop the attitude.” Charles warned.
     
    “ Attitude?” Meredith repeated. “What are you…”
     
    “ Meredith,” Charles’s voice lowered and his eyes became dark, “I know what’s going on here and I’m not having it. Now, we are going to go over there and have a lovely meal with some good people. Do you really want to face the same reaction from me that you did back in Houston?”
     
    Meredith could remember the day all too well. She was lucky enough Charles didn’t find them in mid-coitus, but it was still bad when he walked in on them getting dressed. After a screaming match, Charles chased Javier out of the home and made a call to one of his friends at INS to have him deported shortly afterward.
     
    But that was just the beginning. Charles was so angry at Meredith, she honestly thought he was going to kill her. He even threatened to take the girls away from her and leave. Instead, he did one thing worse: he separated her from her friends and family. If being far away from her lover meant relocating to a different time zone, Charles was all for it. He never told Meredith the reason why he requested to put in a transfer other than ‘it was time for a change.’
     
    Charles knew Meredith wasn’t going to leave him and she knew it, too. She was going to be stuck, begging for his forgiveness and playing good homemaker to him for the rest of her life. She could’ve just left but she knew how ruthless Charles was and he would pull out all the stops to make sure she wouldn’t be near their daughters.
     
    She thought maybe she