Born Mistakes

By Mika Mathews

Family can be everything, pain and the promise of happiness all at once. For Davis, having a child out of wedlock meant his family cursed his name and cast him out. For Deven, leaving his family was the happiness he sought out so deeply. Who knows what could and would happen when these two forces meet up, finding unity in their differences? Can they both find family once again, where it had been denied them so often? 

 

Written by award winning author Mika Mathews as his first attempt at something outside the realm of magic and fantasy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mika Mathews
• Release date: Apr 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223679950

Book preview

Born Mistakes

Davis and Deven

It's okay, buddy, Davis muttered, holding his newborn son to his chest, bottle barely propped up. You're doing so good. He smiled, looking down at the baby’s sweet brown eyes, open and taking in everything with a passion lost by most adults.

The baby just suckled in response, making Davis chuckle. Then, as per usual, a deep sadness overtook him as he followed the eyes of his beautiful Josiah. I am sorry this is all we got, Buddy. But one day, we'll have more.

The small one-bedroom motel room they lived in was simple and small, yellowed from twenty-three years of smoking and who knew what else. There were cracks on the ceiling and ashes baked into the carpet despite his vacuuming forty times in the last two months he had lived there. Mitchell, his boss, and owner of the motel swore that it was fine, but Davis wasn't convinced. He was ninety percent sure it could cause asthma or something similar. The air itself felt like it was choking him, but it was the best he could do at the moment. He would leave the second he could, desperate to give his son the chances he deserved, health being a major part of that.

Love wasn't enough, though. He had learned that the hard way—he and Josiah both—the day his loving parents kicked them out with nothing, cursing them to never return. It was like a scene out of a soap opera, one that haunted Davis' nightmares and filled him with dread.

He'd do better. That was his promise, to himself, to his son, to the world.

He would never become them.

False and sweet in the same breath, he would be real and love his kid with all he had. Mistakes happened and frankly, he would do his damnedest to make sure his kid was smart enough to not only make his mistakes, but strong enough to deal with them if he did. He would never be absent from support.

His love would not come with conditions.

His love would be forever.

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Here's your order, pepperoni pizza with onions and mushrooms. I'll be back to refill your soda in a minute. Smiling falsely at the semi-rude customers before him, who he had just seen tossing their straw papers on the floor without care, Deven wanted to spit in their food, but that was a felony, so he would have to just fantasize about it.

Walking away from them, Deven heard the jingle of the door and turned with an internal grimace. It faded when he saw a familiar teen boy walking in with a tiny, but adorable baby in a cheap stroller. The boy was short and pale, with thick bags under his brown eyes. He looked frail and hungry, but there was a cheerfulness in his gaze, an odd glaze of hope that made Deven smile. He knew who he was, Davis Johnson, a boy he used to go to school with before Deven had been swallowed up by CPS.