Total pages in book: 85
Estimated words: 77663 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 388(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77663 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 388(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
“Dan, where did you run off to? Who’s this? One of your students?”
Oh great, that's just what I needed. I turned to face the newcomer and came face to face with Cecile and Deidre, along with the little boy who had grown a lot. Cecile glared at me, and then her eyes fell on my stomach.
“You’re pregnant? You lied to us? You little bitch.” She stepped closer while her son cried, and Deidre looked like she wanted to be anywhere but there. None of them looked good. In just under two years, these three people had changed so much that it was hard to even recognize them.
Dan was twice the size he was when I left, Cecile had aged at least fifteen years, and Deidre looked a bit haggard. “I think she’s rich. Look at her hand; look at all that jewelry she’s wearing.”
“It’s my son’s money; you owe us after what you did.”
“I don’t owe you anything. Now get out of my way.”
“Oh, you think you’re better than us, but I know the law. I’ll have my lawyer draw up papers to take that baby away. You got pregnant while you were married to my son, so the baby is still his.”
“I was divorced for a whole year before I got pregnant, ma’am.” Has she always been this stupid? It’s so weird. I went out of my way to avoid these people all this time because of some unknown fear, but now that it had happened, I felt nothing but joy that I had escaped this hell.
I started to walk around them because there was really nothing left to say, but two things happened: first, Cecile slapped me, which left me in too much shock to respond, and then Dan got in my face.
“No, you can’t leave, who is he? You owe me at least that much.” Dan reached out to grab my hand again, but I evaded his touch and was a bit repulsed, truth be told. I power walked away as much as my tummy would let me, still surprised that she’d hit me. As mad as I was, I had my baby to think about.
He started coming after me, but before he could say or do anything else, one of my guards was there telling him to back away while the other one was leading me back to my car in a daze.
I think I was too much in shock to even put the key fop up to the ignition, which is how the tank that Thunder insisted I drive starts. I rolled down the window and beckoned over the guard, that was still standing there waiting for me to move. “Please don’t tell my husband about this.”
“Sorry, ma’am, no can do.” Well hell.
THUNDER
“She what? And you just stood there and watched?”
“No sir, we were on top of the situation from the get. We just didn’t want to jump the gun unless it was just a friendly chat. We had no idea that it was her ex, he doesn’t look anything like the picture you gave us.”
“Really, what does he look like? You know what, never mind, I’ll handle it.” I hung up the phone and walked back inside the bakery. “Sorry, Grandma, something came up. Your granddaughter should be here soon. You’ll be fine without me?”
“Of course, you go on and take care of what you need to.” She was already rolling up her sleeves after pulling on her new apron.
No one watching me would know that I was pissed because I never wore my emotions for others to see. There was a lot going on here. First, she didn’t tell me that the appointment was for today, and then she went there on her own even though I knew she was still afraid to step foot in that place.
And last, she didn’t call me to tell me what happened. As if hearing my thoughts, my phone rang, and I pulled over to the side of the road and answered.
“Thunder, where are you? They told you, didn’t they?”
“Yes, they did.”
“I’m at the house; where are you?”
“I’m going to pay your ex-mother-in-law a visit.”
“No, Thunder, you come home right now. Don’t do anything crazy.”
“No, can do, babe.” I hung up the phone before I said something mean to her, which was all I had in me at the moment. Mean.
THUNDER
I wasn’t sure which house to go to first, but I lucked out on the first try, and from the cars in the driveway, it looked like all the parties involved were here at Dan’s new house. Of course, I knew where he lived; I knew everything about this fuck. On paper, anyway. But from the sounds of it, things had changed physically.
You’d think that in the hour it took to get here, I would’ve calmed down a bit, but you’d be wrong. In fact, the opposite happened. I got more and more pissed as the miles went by. I was pissed at her, pissed at her team, and filled with murderous rage at her ex and his mother.