Still Becoming

At twenty-eight, Jasmine Monroe thought she'd be wearing a white coat by now-not sleeping in her childhood bedroom with two kids down the hall.

But life didn't exactly follow the plan.

Between twelve-hour shifts at the hospital, raising nine-year-old Ari and three-year-old Khalil, and trying to save enough money to move out of her mother's house, Jasmine barely has enough time to think about the dreams she put on hold years ago.

Then there's Marquise "Quise" Bennett.

The father of her children. Her first real love. And the one man Jasmine has never completely figured out how to leave behind.

Quise loves his children, but with ten kids, six mothers, broken promises, and a habit of taking accountability only when it's convenient, loving him has brought more chaos into Jasmine's life than stability.

For years, she's argued, forgiven, gone back, walked away, and waited for him to become the father she knows her children deserve.

She's tired of waiting.

As Jasmine prepares to return to school and finally starts putting boundaries between herself and the life that's kept her stuck, she begins confronting a harder truth:

Quise isn't the only person who needs to change.

Because somewhere between becoming a mother, surviving heartbreak, working to make ends meet, and taking care of everybody else, Jasmine stopped building a life for herself.

Now she wants it back.

Not the life she had before.

The life she still has time to create.

Jasmine Monroe isn't starting over. She's still becoming.