The three Musketeers and their fears

XLIII

Calvin
"Hey Calvin, Hey Lorē" Chanel says giving us both hugs. Her place seems like she just cleaned up and started cooking.

"I was just gonna call you, y'all was supposed to go back today right ?"

"Yeah. I wanted to know if you'll keep lil mama for me. I gotta go meet up with someone" I say remembering Reynellah wanted a DNA test. I don't want to say the little girl is mine or say she's not.

"Uh-huh sure" she says. I sit on the couch as she's in the kitchen, "where Sag?"
"Uhm. At home"
"Home? What?"
"Yeah. He has his own place" she says
"What you mean, own place. My mans just got out of a comma for a min. How he get a place ?"
"Your guest is just as good as mine is Cal. Remember when I told y'all I was gonna give it time & slow down on visiting him right?"
"Yeah" I answer remember that whole night
"So that's when he decided he wanted to wake up" she says "and he just came into the apartment all supermanish and shit. We make love instantly. That following morning he tell me how he don't feel right living off of me and that this isn't home because he's been gone. So him & I got into a whole little argument and he left. He's been gone for a minute. But the other day, he came back for the party I threw him & we acted like wasn't shit wrong".
"Awe nah sis. Y'all gotta work that out. Like y'all the original couple and shit, Robyn & I thought if y'all could do it then we can too. Shit same thing with Cassie & B. Real talk, hit him up and y'all work through it". I say standing up.

"No. He doesn't even miss me Cal. He hasn't made an attempt to call me or anything"
"He tryna give you time D. For real, hit him up" I go to hug her. "By lil mama. Daddy be back in a min". I kneel down and give her kiss.

I walk out the apartment and walk to my car while Texting Rey. I get in and head to the destination but whole time my mind is focused on my wife. I told Rob & Reagan about Robyn. They immediately took the next flight to California to investigate themselves, I'm considering not leaving until I know what's going on with Robyn. Death for her can't be this sudden, she cheated but we can work through that. It's no big deal to me because she felt like I wasn't giving her what she needed. I rather her be here and us arguing versus her being so called dead.

"Hi Calvin" Reynellah said as I walked into her hotel

"What's good" I take out the test and start swob testing myself.

"I'm going to do Carter" she walks off and I just relax standing here. A minute or two she brings back the Q-tip, put it in the bag "I'll mail it off, let you know when the results come in, and we'll go from there". I opened the door and left. I got in my car and sat for a while. I put my head on my steering wheel and just cried. I cried because I got everything from cars, wife, daughter, wealth, health, everything but couldn't satisfy my wife. Couldn't keep her happy, be a man and keep my family together. Shit went down hill.

NEXT DAY-

"So when you last seen your wife, you all got into an argument?"

"Yes"

"Did you hit her?" I look over at D and she gave me a look so I just bit my lip "no I did not hit my wife"

"What caused the argument sir?"

"Look, I just want my wife found. I know she wasn't in that fire. She wants us to think she's dead!! Find my fucking wife or your family will need to find yo-"

"Ma'am, they wasn't seeing eye to eye. She found out she was pregnant and didn't know how to tell him. One thing led to another and she felt it was needed to get a separate room"

"And who are you?"

"I'm her best friend"

"How long you've known her ?"

"Twenty years".

"We'll check the hotel cameras and investigate. We will call you Mr. Harris when we find information" then the detectives left out afterwards.

"This is some bullshit Calvin!"
Reagan snapped "how you ain't know she was fucking around on you!"

"She would lie and say she was with Chanel, at the gym, or somewhere. Her alibis were so good man, I would never think that I had to think if my wife cheating on me".

"And what is the Morticia Saying ?" Robert asked

"They know it's a female from that room. So they called me to inform me that it was Robyn"

"Hell nah! They just assumed it was her, that's beyond ignorant" Reagan snapped again

"Well who else would it have been if she was the only one signed to the room, with the key?" D asked

"Not my sister. We all know she ain't dead. When I find her ass, I'm smacking the fuck out of her for scaring me. She had me crying at work, sweating my edges out. Ion have good hair. I got nigga hair, this too much to tame!" D laughed at Reagan statement causing all of us to laugh.

"What would make her fake her death though?" Rob asked?

"She wasn't happy with her life. Nothing went as planned for her and then she found out she was pregnant but some other female said she had a five or six year old daughter that suppose to be Calvin's and that just topped it off. I'm assuming she had a breaking point and just. . . Yeah"

"She's pregnant for real ?" Calvin said

"Yes. She's having a boy. She doesn't want the life of a mom this young".

"Chanel you just now telling me this shit! You knew whole time and kept me in the dark"

"Whoa hold up. You going through to fucking much to throw that shit at you Cal. Don't come at me because you in a hard place, I'm trying to help you"

"What make you just now say the shit now though. That could have been kept or said first. . . How you know she wasn't ready to be a mom?"

"She wasn't happy when she found out about Loreal Cal. How didn't you see that? I guess that's what she meant about you ignoring her"

"I felt like I was doing the best I could. Why wouldn't she tell me how she felt?"