Total pages in book: 55
Estimated words: 51765 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 259(@200wpm)___ 207(@250wpm)___ 173(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 51765 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 259(@200wpm)___ 207(@250wpm)___ 173(@300wpm)
“It sure is. Our boy waited until they thought he was gone, after they’d ran him off and her crying and whatnot, and slipped back and went in through her bedroom window like always and voila, there you have it.”
“I need this shit.” I stomped off in the opposite direction to have a talk with the priest just in case we had to pull a good old fashion shotgun wedding for me, and little Ms. Dana.
By the time I made it back to the house she was dressed and ready. I felt a slight pang of guilt, but killed that shit quick. This was for both of us, we’ll both benefit in the end.
“You ready?” she looked damn near pitiful but she nodded her head yes. “Where’d you get those?” I nodded at the bunch of flowers she held that looked like someone had raided mom’s garden in a hurry.
“Your sister in law, I think that’s who she said she was.” Fucking Melissa, I was waiting for the last minute to tell her anything about this because she can be a pain in the ass.
At least it was good that they’d met already. Dana was going to need female companionship for the time she was here, which I was sure could run into a year at least easy.
“Wait can’t we...?” was she shaking again?
“Babe, we don’t have time; whatever questions you have will keep. Nothing is going to change, you’re going to live here in the guestroom and I’ll stay out of your way.
When the dirty old man has been taken care of you are free to go.” She pondered my words and then seemed to come to some sort of conclusion.
I wasn’t altogether sure that I trusted that look on her face, but I didn’t know her well enough to say, though I felt a tingling in my balls.
The ceremony as it were wasn’t too long and had gone off without a hitch. Our only witnesses were my brother and my two best friends.
She’d said something to the priest that had made him look over at me as if to say something, before she’d pulled on his arm and shaken her head at him.
He seemed resigned enough and performed the ceremony, before dropping his little bombshell, just a few added words that basically damned me to hell if I sought to divorce her. What the fuck ever!
I pecked her on the lips and barely spared her a glance as I left to go see what the fuck was up with my cousin.
Interfering ass female, where did she come up with that stipulation, and why the hell would she think that it would work on me anyway?
I wasn’t interested in the marriage game, wanted no part of that shit. I take a woman if I have a need for sex.
What I do not have a need for, is the nagging and other unnecessary bullshit that comes with the permanency of marriage and relationships. That fuckery is for the birds.
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DANA SUE
So, he thinks that marriage is just something to be played with does he? Well we’ll just see about that.
It wasn’t easy getting the priest to agree to my little request, but in the end what fault could he find with it?
He was supposed to oppose divorce wasn’t he? So what harm was there in making that one little stipulation in the wedding vows?
When the time comes, I will use that to my advantage. It seems since coming back home my whole world has been turned upside down with one thing or another. Now I’m married.
I looked down at the gold band he’d placed on my finger, it’s funny; I hadn’t been expecting one. It was old but beautiful, one of those timeless pieces that endured the test of time.
I felt a warmth creep into my heart for a split second, as I looked after my new husband’s retreating back. ‘It’s time you grow up Dana.’ I told myself.
Yes it was, if not I will forever be tossed to and fro in the tempest, with other people always making the decisions for me.
I headed back to the house where my new husband had ordered me to stay while he did who knows what.
As I stepped out into the sunshine I felt free for the first time in a long while. I also felt a giddy sense of something. There was a tingling in my tummy, and I had the urge to smile for no blessed reason at all.
I could make this work, after all it wasn’t like my new husband was an ogre or something, in fact he was really quite handsome. And hadn’t he gone after my dad for what he did to me, a total stranger?
And he brought mom to me even though she’d not stayed. And he’s been nothing but kind ever since I got here. Yes, I could work with this.