Total pages in book: 22
Estimated words: 19898 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 99(@200wpm)___ 80(@250wpm)___ 66(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 19898 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 99(@200wpm)___ 80(@250wpm)___ 66(@300wpm)
"I need you to tell me everything you remember about that night baby."
I saw her tense, she didn't even need to ask me what night I was referring to, she already knew, and I could see it was the last thing she wanted to talk about.
"It's very important baby." She turned fearful eyes up to me and I could see the tears already gathering. Kneeling beside her I placed one hand over her stomach and took one of hers with the other.
"I promise you I'm not going to get mad at you, look at me, I'm not mad at you okay just answer the question for me." I kissed her forehead gently and felt her take a reassuring breath, sort of like she was gathering her strength to face a battle.
"Um, I think Brenda called me earlier in the day and asked me if I wanted to go into town for a night out. I turned her down because I knew you wouldn't approve. Then a little later Simon called and said Brenda was hounding him to go hang out and that we should go to get her off our backs or something like that. I hadn't seen Simon since before you left and..." She paused to look at me because she knew what hearing that name now did to me. I was silently gritting my teeth and trying not to fold my fists so as not to give away my feelings.
"Go on it's okay."
"Well after Simon called I decided it might not be so bad to go for a little while, I didn't plan to be there for very long maybe an hour or two tops. Plus I was working on something and I was getting a little stuck so I thought a change of scenery might do me some good so I went." She fluttered her free hand nervously from her throat or her chest and back and looked everywhere but at me.
"Then what happened?"
"Um, I don't really remember all the details, that's the truth Dominic I swear. I just remember Brenda yelling whoo hoo or something like it when we got there and she already had a beer waiting for me. I honestly don't remember much after that first beer but I must've had more after that. Anyway, you know the rest."
"That's it, that's all you remember?"
"Um, sorta, I remember feeling hot and a little disoriented so I had to sit in the corner. Yeah, I remember Simon asking if I was okay but his face kept going in and out and I think I was laughing or someone was laughing and I guess that's when I kissed Simon."
"What do you mean guess? Before when I asked you told me you did."
"Well that's what everyone else said that I did." Fucking lamb to the slaughter.
"Did you fall asleep?"
"I must've because I woke up on dad's couch."
"Wait a minute what? Why am I now hearing this?"
"I don't know you were so angry that day when you confronted me that you didn't let me say anything. As soon as I admitted to the kiss you shut down, shut me out." I had to pull her into my arms then because she started tearing up and rocking back and forth in her chair.
"Ssh, ssh, it's okay baby, it's okay I was being an asshole, when we're done you can take me out back and use all those Krav Maga skills I taught you on me okay." She hugged me tighter but at least the tears had stopped.
"How did you get on your dad's couch do you know?"
"He said Simon dropped me off, something about me having too much but I only remembered having the one. Maybe the pregnancy made me even less tolerant I don't know, usually I can do two and a half beers before I feel like toppling over but..."
"Do you remember anything else about the bar?" She shook her head slowly back and forth.
"Why're you asking me all these questions you're not planning on going after Simon are you? Dominic I think it was all me, I'm sorry but when the rumor started I confronted him and he was too embarrassed to tell me but then I got the truth out of him. He said I was the one that kissed him, then he was muttering something about Brenda but I didn't understand him and I didn't follow through because I was sick to my stomach with fear. I knew if you ever got wind of it you'd kill us both. I don't think he tried anything. It was all me." She started to cry again my poor baby.
"Baby listen to me, you weren't yourself that night it's not your fault."
"What do you mean?" She looked at me in confusion.
"I think you were drugged."
"What? Simon would never do that."