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I say as I wipe the tears from my eyes.
He shakes his head, “No. I want us to go on a date. Maybe a weekend. Maybe a week and then in time…”
“You want to fuck me all weekend?”
He shakes his head and says, “No, maybe if you’ll let me I’ll like to fuck you for life.”
I stop and stare at him. I don’t know if he’s serious, but as my dad ends up by my side he lifts up his hand and Joshua blocks him.
“You ungrateful spoiled bitch!” Dad yells as Joshua wrestles with his hand. The one that was just about to hit me.
Aunt Betty’s hand comes beside me as dad runs off, probably to avoid her.
“I never knew,” she whispers and then Daniel comes holding mom and they all leave together. I’ve set mom free, she can now do whatever she wants and I know that Aunt Betty will help her.
I turn to Joshua and say, “One more try. But if you hurt me again..”
He lifts me up and says, “I wouldn’t dare!”
Epilogue
Scarlett
I never thought that I would make Rowtons my home. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it as a kid and even a teenager, but to think that this the place that I’m going to call home feels as if it’s too surreal.
I hated my aunt for making the one man that’s made me ever feel like a woman part of a business contract. She apologized so many times with the explanation, “I don’t have long dear, and I wanted you to be happy.”
Mom's in therapy and officially divorced from dad. She’s living with Aunt Betty and trying to get on the road to recovery. Something that sh
e should have done a long time ago, part of me feels guilty about it. Maybe if I’d told Aunt Betty or someone else, what was going on earlier then it would have stopped a lot sooner?
I try not to think of the past and just concentrate on the future these days. I’ve never been happier in my life, and I didn’t even think that it was possible. Joshua respects me, but then I feel the same way about him.
“A penny for your thoughts,” he growls as he creeps up next to me.
“You need to stop doing that!” I snap back as I sit with my notebook thinking about my next painting.
“Maybe painting’s not for you. Maybe your masterpiece is what you needed to set you free.”
He sits at the end of the chair, and I feel as if there’s a cloud on him. He doesn’t seem his normal self, but then again I’m not exactly in the right frame of mind, at the best of times.
“Why do you think that? You’ve been supporting me all this time. Don’t tell me that you’re having second thoughts now? I moved here for you…”
He’s covering my mouth and saying, “Take deep breaths.”
I start to do that, as my yoga instructor has taught me to do so many times. I take deep breaths as I gaze into his emerald eyes thinking why does he even put up with me. I seem to be in this emotional stage at the moment.
“Sorry,” I sigh as I wrap my arms around him.
“Can you stop apologizing for once in your life?”
I shake my head, thinking that I’m a successful artist, but I still think of myself as that broken woman. The one that he’d repaired and my life started to begin. I’ve been on safari, a wild weekend with Gretchen and the girls, all the things that I couldn’t do when I was in a relationship with Sam.
He's been so distant lately, and part of me thought that maybe it had something to do with my success. But, I still earn a fraction of what he’s made to date, so it’s not that. There’s something bugging him and one thing I know about Joshua. He hates me asking him what’s up?
He despises it.
“Did I miss something?”
