Forty-one years ago, Mrs. Corinna Parkinson was a naïve woman who had more than most African-American women
could hope for. That is, she had the professor husband, a single-family detached home complete with the
white picket fence, two young children, and a B.A. degree from Oberlin College that she didn’t expect to use.
A year later she had something else most women in her circle didn’t have: a divorce. Some
other woman had her professor husband, another family had her nice home with the white picket fence, hell, someone else even
got their dog. But that was okay, because she still had her two young children and she had grit.
And she had a God that was good … all the time.
She’d
landed on her feet, put her babies on her hip and clawed her way back to the middle class and straight into the office of
Alamain Chase, owner of Alamain Enterprises. He noticed her because of her killer legs; he’d hired
her because she had moxy … and he continued to promote her because despite not planning to work outside of the home,
she was damn good at her job.
Over the years they developed a relationship
based on mutual respect and admiration. And over the years, she became acquainted with some of the biggest
names in business – not just in the U.S., but world wide. Not only did she have the personal contact
information of a handful of prominent movers and shakers; she had open invitations to visit anytime. And
she often did, and when they got together they didn’t talk hostile takeovers or business. No, they
talked children … specifically children who thought that they had a whole lot of extra time for them to settle down
and give them some grandchildren, godchildren, nieces and nephews.
Now
that her own children were married off and had given her grandchildren, she’d somehow gotten involved in getting the
children of her friends married off. It was a difficult business, but she was just the woman to do it.
And those hard-headed thirty-somethings that were basking in their single, no children status? They
were so cute believing that they controlled their own destinies.
Welcome
to the WHEN WISHES COME TRUE series(WISHES). The love might be young, the sex might be hot, but the hands
that direct it belong to a woman that will tell you to go to h*ll with a smile on her face and a ‘bless your heart’
as a rejoinder, because she knows that she’s going to win.
* * * * * BOOKS:* * * * *
Book 1: A Little
Bit of Dis by Jeanie Johnson and Jayha Leigh available at: http://www.lulu.com/content/2445877
DUETS: Veiled Passions & A
Little Bit of Dis
(the first story from the E4L and the WISHES series together in one book)
available now at: http://www.lulu.com/content/2829829
Book 2: Espresso Love by Jeanie
Johnson and Jayha Leigh
