Unfair

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Ryan

It's been about a week and a half since the family brunch and I needed to talk to Zara today before the kids got out of school on this Friday. I had to make it to Lox game tonight.

"You upset?" I asked.

Zara shook her head. "No, I just want you to understand where I'm coming from."

"What you mean?"

"I know Blake is your nephew and you love him, but we are not helping him if he knows you will always come rescue him. He knows that I'm not coming to get him out of jail because I've done everything possible to try and steer him away from that life. He's angry about his dad, I get that, but I don't want him to think that his actions are acceptable. He's manipulative."

"I see what you are saying. It's just hard to have that on my conscience if I know that I'm able to help him."

"But are you really helping him by doing that?"

"I think we're looking at it from two different perspectives. I've lived everything that he is going through. I been trying to do everything to prevent it but you and I both know Rhyson is never going to step up. I guess I'm treating him how I wanted somebody to treat me, because I didn't have a mom either. Shit, he's becoming a man and realizing shit around him, especially the relationship he has with Rhyson and his behavior is wild. I get all that, but this isn't the time to abandon him. When you sitting in those cells locked down, you think about everything. It's not fun." I explained to her.

Zara sighed. "I'm trying to be patient with him and take all of this into consideration but I don't know what else to do. He's hitting that girl too, if you haven't noticed."

My eyes widened. "He's hitting who? How do you know this?"

"I'm his mother, I know my child. If he will put his hands on me then I'm sure he's doing it to her. I say he's hitting her because she acts just how I did when I was dating Rhyson. He use to abuse me and I see myself in her. He swears he's not doing anything to her, but I know him better than he knows himself. She's a really sweet girl and I like her but, she always seems a bit jumpy and kinda like she has to get permission from him to do things. Have you ever noticed any of that?"

Damn. He bet not be putting his hands on any female.

"I'm gonna bring this up to him. I'm gonna knock his ass out if I catch him doing some shit like that. I'm not with that domestic violence shit. He know not to be hitting any woman. He ain't never rose up like that to me." I said.

"He's not going to rise up to you because he knows you are not the one to do that shit with. I want to talk to the girl alone, but I just don't know what I would do if she confirms what I have been thinking. I'm frustrated because I never imagined I would have raised a boy like that."

"I can talk to her or have Alyssa sit down and talk to her. Alyssa mentioned that she was acting weird once but I didn't think anything of it. You might be right."

"He really looks up to you and wants the family bond, but it just didn't work like that with Rhyson and I. I'm not sure what Rhyson is telling him whenever he does see him, but he acts like he hates me sometime. I'm really over all of this because I'm trying. He has brought me to my knees and I don't know where the fuck I went wrong. I've done everything to try and give him a perfect life. I can't make Rhyson be a father..."

Shit. I felt bad for her because Rhyson ain't shit and he never gonna be shit. He's a waste of fucking life. He know exactly what the hell he is doing to Blake, but he don't care.