HIS PROTECTOR

"Tell me about your wife Mr Johnson"

I closed my eyes it didn't take me long to see her in my head, standing in front of me wearing her favorite floral green maternity dress and a big white sunny hat covering her face,i see her hand rubbing her belly,i could hear her voice laughing at my lame jokes in my head and i knew my smile was visible and Mrs Chang saw it.

" Mr Johnson,Mr Jonhson,"

My vision disappeared,i knew if i open my eyes i will be greated by Mrs Cheng's annoyed face.This is my third year coming to her therapy sessions and i haven't opened up or tell her about Ruby Lyn my late wife,i replied her with my eyes closed.

"I'm sorry,i got lost in my memories i know it has been three years now and still i can't move on or forget her and that dreadful day,so whenever i get a chance to see her happy in my mind i take it,"i opened my eyes and saw Mrs chang writing something on her notepad,she fixed her big black glasses and fixed her eyes on me and i felt like a kid,for a forty year old woman she's looked younger than her age,i guess Asian DNA has something to do with that.

"Mr Jonhson i know it's difficult but i need something to work on here okay,"

She was frustrated,i mean who wouldn't be i come here every week for three years now and lay on her comfortable brown couch and day dream about my Ruby Lyn.Something was telling me to open up,i knew i had to or Mrs Chang will give up on me,i closed my eyes again.

"Where do i begin?,"i asked her and she politely answered my question even though i am old enough to be her son i felt like a five year old laying on her couch asking her that.

"How did you meet her?,"

"On a flight to Zimbabwe,she was visiting her family and i was going to Victoria Falls for my first vacation with my brother Thomas,i was late my mind was everywhere and i didn't want to miss my flight,i bumped into her and she dropped her phone and her hand bag,i quickly got on my knees to help her but she stood there looking at me the look she gave me i swear she wanted to punch me,she had an angry face on and her nose flaring and creases on her forehead she pulled her long sleeves revealing her beautiful skin,she lifted her right hand and i closed my eyes, i could hear my own heart beat and i braced for a tight slap,i stayed like that for a minute before opening my eyes and i saw my brother grinning with his phone in his hand and i knew exactly what he was doing,so i pulled myself up and picked my bags and walked away Thomas laughed real hard, I've never heard him laugh like that she should've slapped me or made me pay for her phone,i broke her phone and guilt ate me up, lucky Luck was on my side that day she sat next to me and we bonded, she apologized for her act leaving me there in front of people looking like a fool and i couldn't stay mad at her, i asked for her number and she gave me her number,i called her after we landed and she ignored my calls,i called her everyday she knew i wanted her and she was playing hard to get,so i patiently annoyed her with my calls until she gave in and answered.We went on a date and i didn't need a fortune taller to tell me who she was,i knew she was my soulmate from the moment i laid my eyes on her,i knew,".

"After our first date,i asked her to marry me after two months and had our wedding here,she looked like a Goddess in her white dress and her curvy body the dress looked like it was made in Mount Olympus by Hera herself,Ruby Lyn was more beautiful than the daughter's of Aphrodite,her shiny brown skin,her perfect smile, those perfect lips,her almond shaped eyes those brown irises could see through my soul,her kinky long thick kinky hair,"

"I knew every man drooled when they saw her in that sexy v neck fish tail wedding dress,she loved exercising and those early mornings on a treadmill worked that dress knew how to hypnotize me,she didn't wear heavy make up she was more into the natural movement even after the marriage she rarely wore make up i loved it ,it made me fall in love with her beautiful brown skin everyday,Ruby Lyn was tall but not taller than me but if she wore heals knowing her she would've kissed my forehead.She loved pranks but my baby chose to wear flat shoes for me when i saw those shoes i felt special she did it for me,everyone was there except my Mother and my sister,I didn't mind.Me and my family we didn't see eye to eye when i told them about Ruby Lyn they said i shouldn't pay her bride price,i had to it was her culture and they didn't charge me much,her family cared about her happiness but my Mother did understand she told me to stop the wedding planning and dump Ruby Lyn,to them she was not our class she's didn't fit our status,i made my own decisions with Thomas by my side as my best man and i married Ruby Lyn and kept her far away from them for five good years until my mother called and apologized to me and i told her to apologize to Ruby Lyn for calling her a gold digger.My mother's hatred for Ruby Lyn was deep and i felt it wasn't about Money or race it was more,she tried to change my mind several times but she failed,i didn't care if Ruby Lyn was black, blue,white,yellow i loved her and about money she was a rich Author and so was i,"

"We were both authors,i loved writing about Action and Adventure and Ruby Lyn loved supernatural books and she took her job seriously,she would do investigations before writing her books and her readers loved her and her work,she would go for days researching and writing, sometimes she would skip lunch or dinner,i always told her I don't read such stuff but i would sneak out of our bedroom at night just to go downstairs and read her books secretly knowing Ruby Lyn if i read them in front of her she would tell everyone especially my brother Thomas and she would jokes about it and she was a very bad jokester worse than me,"

"But i loved her,we always talked about how our babies will look like her,she wanted them to look like the both us,she wanted them to have my grey eyes and i loved her hair,i wanted them to have big black kinky hair,it took us years of trying we wanted a family of our own and finally she got pregnant with our baby girl and the nightmare started,no one prepared me or told me about living with a pregnant woman,"