Revenge (Urban)

Chapter 10

Jasmine POV

"You want to see daddy? Ok, let's go see daddy." I cooed to a screaming, crying Nasir.

He's been very irritated today and has been crying for no reason and it's low key scaring me. He just off of a cold and I hope he's not catching another one.

When we got closer to Mario's office door, Nasir decreased his cries from screams to just normal cries. I opened the door and Mario was on a conference call, using his laptop, and using his iPad at the same time. He looked over at me and nodded, motioning for me to come in. At this point, Nasir was just whining to be put in his dad's hands. I placed him down on the floor and he crawled right over to Mario.

I tucked my legs under me and relaxed in my seat, watching Nasir finally be calm after hours of restlessness. Him and Mario have a relationship where when they're together they're like best friends and Nasir is the best baby ever. It's the cutest thing to see them interact together.

30 minutes later, Mario finally ended his conference call. Nasir kept talking and trying to be part of it which was extra hilarious.

"You got him for a bit?" I asked, playing around with my fingers.

"Yeah, but stay for a minute. I want to talk to you." He said. I nodded and stated in the same position I've been in. He stood up and walked around his desk then leaned in front of it, with Nasir in his arms.

"I've been doing a lot of thinking lately and a lot of shit has happened over the past month. Listen, I don't want to be upset with you Jas because I understand how I get when I am pissed off. I'm trying to do everything right for my family and make sure everything is good all the time and I can't help but to feel like somewhere along the line, maybe I fucked up and didn't give you enough attention." He said, never looking directly at me. Damn, now my heart feels weighed down by even more guilt.

"Whatever it was that made you chest, I apologize. I've never tried to be perfect but I've tried to be just enough. I mean, I don't just have an office in the house for nothing. I don't work from sunrise to sunset because it makes me happy inside. I do it for y'all cause I made a vow to myself when my dad walked out on my mom that I would never be like him and that my wife and kids wouldn't even know how it feels to want. I think I focused to much on materialistic wants and probably forgot to cater to my wife's needs." He said. He turned his attention directly towards me and his brown eyes wouldn't advert from my face.

"Mario, it wasn't your fault. I mean, around that time I was going through some personal shit and I've never been good with letting people know how I'm feeling, I kind of just expect them to know. I don't want you to think you haven't done something you're suppose to because when I say you're the perfect husband and father, I'm telling the truth. You shouldn't be apologizing to me. I'm sorry Mario. Not just for stepping out of our marriage but I'm sorry for everything stupid and childish I've ever done since we've met." I said. Mario chuckled and looked down then back up at me.

"I'm laughing because you don't know how long I've been waiting for you to apologize for your shit. I mean genuinely apologize. I can smell bullshit from a mile away and all the other times were bullshit but I can tell that what you just said right now was genuine." He nodded. "At this point in our lives, I think we're to grown to act like we did when we were teenagers and in our early 20's. I'm open to building our relationship again and I want the base of it to be love and trust because without love you can't trust someone and without trust it's hard to love someone. I want to set good examples for Lori and Ja and eventually Nasir. I can't already tell that Ja is feeling some type of way." He said.

"Why? What did he do?" I asked. I mean, I can tell he's been shady for a bit but I thought he was going through a phase where boys don't tell their mom shit.