Milani pov
We all ate at the dinner table. Keith tried to act so sober, but it was so visible he couldn't even hide it. Even the kids noticed it.
I was just fed up honestly.
"Keith I'm say this right here right now, the kids be my witness. If you keep drinking I swear I'm leaving you." I said.
Marli instantly buried her head in her hands,Keiko just froze there watching our reactions, Kairo just looked down at his plate and continued eating.
"You just can't do nothing the healthy mature way and express this in private, you had to do this in front of the kids?"
"Privacy is out the window, when you can openly be drunk in front of them, right?"
"Yea you right." He replied.
"Daddy why do you keep doing this?" Marli asked as she wiped her tears and looked at him.
"Ask your mama." He said, my eyes instantly burned, withholding tears.
"Mama what are you doing to make him this way?"
"Your father, is fucked up over Chris. He is consumed over the thought of Chris. Thinking that Chris is gonna take his place. Chris lives rent free in your father's head. It's now fucking with his ego, that while I was single and he was dating Madison for two years, I was dealing with Chris for a short period of time."
"Milani, I don't give a fuck about Chris. It's really the fact I let you run over me for so fucking long, I got fucked over tryna be the good guy." He replied.
Keiko, got up and left the table.
"And how is that?"
"Back when Marli was a baby, you just had a disrespectful smart ass mouth, you came with drama and I told you I don't do the drama. I never dealt with that with no woman but you. Then you let a nigga put his hands on you and you didn't want to tell me and told me to get over it. You kept trying stay connected to him while we was married, you was so eager to divorce, then after we divorced you go and FUCK him, multiple times. You think I'm a fucking joke. YOU THINK I'M A FUCKING JOKE . " Keith said before jumping up at me, making us jump.
Kairo got up to guard me." Son it's cool. I'll never put my hands on your mother. That's what, having self control and being a man is." Keith said.
"I love her too much. And being in love can make you look like a fool I tell you. But I love yal. I'm not drinking no more this was my last day. Can't be out here looking like a crashout."Keith said before going off to the guest room.
The rest of the night was quiet. Keiko, Kairo, and I slept in the room with Marli as Keith slept in the guest room.
I was hurt, I felt embarrassed, I felt low of myself again.
