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 had no real destination in mind, wasn't going anywhere in particular until I ended up at the only diner in the small town. People called out hello when I walked to the back of the place to take a booth. I just waved and kept going I didn't want to talk to anyone. Her friend Brenda was sitting with a group of women and gave me the eye. Skanky twat, she probably thought the coast was clear now that Maddy and me were on the outs.
One of Maddy’s friends Donna came over and said hi. Donna was cool people, she was nothing like Brenda, at least not as far as I could tell from the few times we’d met. She looked miserable as shit as she approached me. “Dominic I don’t mean to get in your business and I can’t really talk here but I think there was something more going on that night at the bar.” What the fuck? I guess the murderous glare I gave her put the fear of hell in her because she took a quick step back.
“No not like that, I just mean Maddy wasn’t acting herself you know? She’s never been a drinker and she didn’t have that much to drink to begin with, but she started acting really weird. I never had a chance to find out what was going on with her because Brenda kept getting between us, but I just thought you should know, I don’t think that what happened was all Maddy’s fault.” The way she sneered at Brenda’s name made me take notice.
She walked off and went back to her table with her family as I perused the room. The only one who seemed interested in our conversation was none other than Brenda herself.
It didn't take her long to saunter over to my table with her sugary sweet smile. I didn't stop her when she leaned over and kissed my cheek, I guess I should've because she seemed to take that as an invitation to sit down.
"So how're things Dominic you hanging in there? I'm sorry about the trouble with Maddy and Simon I tried telling her but she just wouldn't listen."
I looked at her without answering for five minutes, by minute three she was starting to squirm under my scrutiny.
"What was it that you tried telling her exactly Brenda huh?"
"Oh well you know about that…that night..."
"What about it?"
"You know, you know what happened."
"I do, my wife told me all about it." Her eyes grew wide and she looked…nervous. What the fuck was that about?
"She did, but how could she remember...?" She closed her mouth real quick after that.
"What did you say?" I got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach at her words and the way she was acting. Something was way wrong with this picture but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Something she said was sending off warning signals in my gut, but what? She hadn’t said much of anything.
"Nothing nothing I just meant that with the amount of alcohol she had she might not have remembered." She fidgeted nervously as she was suddenly more interested in avoiding my eyes than she had been when she first made her way over to me. Somehow I didn't buy her bullshit cover either.
"I changed my mind I'm not hungry after all."
"Oh but..." I didn't even spare her a glance as I walked out.
All the way back up the mountain my mind was whirling and I felt sick. If what I was thinking was true then I was in a world of shit.
I heard her weeping as soon as I opened the door. Without giving any thought to what I was doing I went straight to the room she was currently using because I'd kicked her out of my bed. She was lying in the middle of the bed in the fetal position rocking back and forth as she cried her little heart out.
Fuck, that can't be good for my kid. I kicked off my shoes and laid down next to her pulling her into my arms. She clung to me like a vine, her tears soaking the front of my shirt.
"Hush now Madelyn, I came back."
"Please Dominic please I can't bear it please please please."
"Ssh, calm down baby this can't be good for the baby."
Her body shook with her tears as I felt my eyes too grow moist, what the fuck, had happened in that bar that night?
Chapter 7
She finally fell asleep in my arms and I couldn't leave her, neither could I fit my six three frame on this little ass bed so I lifted her gently and took her into our room. It felt right having her there as I laid down beside her. I was confused and pissed and didn't know what the fuck to do next. Donna’s words and Brenda's slip of the tongue kept playing over and over again in my head but I didn't want to believe the shit that was starting to form there. Her words the night I confronted her kept replaying in my head too. Now that the red haze of fury was no longer clouding everything I kept hearing her say she didn’t remember what had happened or how it had happened. I’d thought it was just a cop out but maybe there was more to it than that.