Böcker av Rosetta Ingram-Hargett

His grandmother Clara passed away suddenly from a massive stroke a year before Jared met Pat. He was devastated over her death. He slumped into a deep depression and stopped going to the church that he and his grandmother attended all his life. They tried to reach out to him, but he avoided them.Jared met Derrick in high school, and they became very close friends. After graduation, they stayed in contact with each other, hanging out every chance they got. Derrick was like a brother to him. They had so much in common.In his 2nd year of college, Derrick became a devoted Christian. He loved sharing his faith with anyone who would listen to him. He was very concerned about Jared, as he watched him slump into a deep spirit of depression, he began ministering to him continually and finally talked him into coming to church with him. That is where Jared met Pat. The minute Jared laid eyes on her he fell in love with her. Pat played a little hard to get because she wanted to make sure he wasn’t playing games with her, inwardly she prayed he didn’t give up on her because she really liked him. She had her eyes on him from the moment he walked into the church.Derrick introduced them, and he saw the sparks flying between the two of them.Jared smiled to himself as he thought about her, remembering the hard time Pat gave him before she finally decided to go on a date with him. They laughed about it later when he asked her why she had given him such a hard time.“Because, I didn’t want you to think I was that easy to get!” She’d explained.He laughed“Oh really? Believe me when I tell you, I wasn’t giving up on you that easily!” Pat smiled.“And believe me when I tell you, I wasn’t going to let you give up on me.”They both laughed. He and Pat had their entire lives ahead of them. They’d made so many plans together and now it was all gone. Vanished as though it never was.Jared’s mind was racing. He positioned himself comfortably on his couch and decided he would crush the tablets, to make it easier for him to swallow, to allow it to get into his bloodstream much quicker. He wondered how long it would take for someone to find his dead body in the cramped cottage.He took a deep breath and poured himself a glass of vodka that he’d purchased earlier that day. He emptied the lethal dosage of the Opioids on a wooden chopping board, crushing the tablets into a fine powdery substance. He put it in a small plastic cup so that he could swallow it in one gulp and flush it down quickly with the vodka.Once again, he picked up Pat’s picture, stared at it for a minute, kissed it and then gently put the picture back on the end table. With trembling hands and a racing heart, he opened the bottle of Vodka. He picked up the plastic cup containing the powdery tablets, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Amanda thumbed through her mail and afterwards went and took a hot shower and washed her hair. She couldn't believe how much it had grown. She wanted to cut it so badly because it was easier to handle when it was shorter, but Derrick begged her not to. She hoped when Derrick called she would be able to hear the phone ring. He promised to call her when he was on his way to her house. She didn't expect him until 8:00.Normally the apartment was very quiet, but whenever she was exhausted she would sleep very hard and a freight train could be coming through her room and she wouldn't hear it. Amanda wrapped her hair up in a towel and put on her favorite white oversized fluffy terry cloth bathrobe. The kettle was whistling loud piercing her ears, reminding her to make her tea. She made a large cup of tea using two of the herbal mint tea bags. The mint tea was refreshing, and it helped her to relax.She took the tea with her to her bedroom to watch the news while she sipped on the tea to calm her tattered nerves. She picked up her Bible from her kitchen table to read after she'd finished watching the news. She always liked to read her Bible before she went to sleep. It was the first thing she did in the morning, before she left for work and the last thing she did at night."Hey baby! I wondered when you were coming in here. I thought I was going to have to come in there to get you." Amanda gasped and screamed. She jumped back scalding her arms with half of the tea and dropping the cup she held in her hands.There he was stretched out across her bed as though it was his own!"Nile what are you doing here? How did you get in?"He smiled wickedly."You should've gotten a better lock for your door. It was so easy for me to get in.""You broke into my house? Are you crazy?" she yelled.He jumped up and grabbed her by the arm. She slapped him as hard as she could and snatched away from him."I want you out of my house right now or I will call the police!" "Awww! Come on baby! Now you know you don't mean that.""Oh, I don't? You just watch me!"She stormed into the kitchen to get her cordless phone. He trailed behind her to stop her. He grabbed her arm and snatched the phone out of her hands in anger smashing it to the floor. He slapped her so hard her ears began to ring, and her nose started bleeding. He grabbed her neck and began to choke her as he blurted out obscenities to her. She struggled to breathe as she viciously fought to get out of his clutches.She was near her stove and managed to reach behind her for the hot tea kettle and slammed it on his back emptying the kettle of its content on his naked body. He screamed, falling to his knees and immediately released her. She had no time to think, only to react quickly before he grabbed her again. Amanda staggered to the counter gasping for air when she saw the set of kitchen knives she'd received from her mother as a housewarming gift. She grabbed the middle knife quickly. It was the biggest and the sharpest one of all.Nile had her now by the ankle and tried to stop her before she got hold of the knives, but it was too late. She said to herself, it's either going to be me or him tonight and if it's me Lord I'm not going to die without a fight!She didn't realize just how much strength she had and at that moment she was absolutely fearless. She reared back and came down as hard as she could on his arm his face and his chest repeatedly screaming to the top of her lungs.