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Chapter Six
Naomi knew better thanto be late for their meetings. Her husband Cory Wells didn’t my things to start late. The only thing he probably hated more than tardiness what’s the work that Naomi did with the animal shelter. Every time she mentioned it he brought up that the only reason she was going to the animal shelter was because she had not managed to do the one thing that all women seemed to be able to do effortlessly, have a child.
More and more Naomi was starting to think about the issue of her worth. Cory had made it very clear that he found me only attractive and that he was looking forward to her giving him children. At the time it had seemed like a great idea. She would be Naomi wells a well to do young woman in her mid-20s who could buy just about anything except a pet of course. Corey didn’t like animals they were dirty.
“You’re spending entirely too much time with that animal program again!” Corey is well said with disgust in his voice. “Why can’t you get on with the business of what you’re supposed to do.”
“The doctor says that I’m stressed,” Naomi replied in a little voice. She was so tired of being blamed for not being able to have a baby. They had already had two miscarriages. He hadn’t even mourned with her.”
“Stressed? How can you be stressed? I give you everything a woman could want.”
Naomi heard the words and let them flow over her. Lately she was starting to realize that money wasn’t everything.
“I’m back now and we can start working on a baby again,” Naomi said weary from the whole endeavor. “Maybe it will be good for the both of us if we go on our cruise?” Naomi suggested. She was sitting in the family room and Corey walked out of the room. She knew where he was going. Whenever they had these kinds of conversations, he would always go to make himself some coffee. He claimed coffee cleared his head.
“Go on a cruise you said and who’s going to make the money that you’re spending?” he called out from the other room. Naomi could hear the coffee machine starting to bubble. It wasn’t even five minutes later that she smelled the rich aroma of coffee coming from the other room. The room she was sitting in was elegant and beautiful. The floor was covered in oriental rugs that were thick and had deep colors of red, yellow and black. The walls were in a Pearl paint that seemed to shimmer depending on which angle you looked at them. She was sitting on a French divan and there were two other matching chairs in the room as well. All of the chairs had a Paisley print on them amber framed in a picture ask fleur de lis pattern.
Everything about the room said money. In the beginning she relished it and now she recognized it as the prison that it was. Naomi’s thoughts went back to whisper and smoke. She had just about accused Claudia Lewis of playing favorites and trapping one of her dogs. It was in retrospect that Naomi recognized that she didn’t really think whisper was being unfairly treated she just couldn’t stand to see another creature caged like she was even if it was by their choice.
Being caged in a gilded prison was one thing letting a man abuse you well that was just too much. Naomi had been doing home checks for the last 2 ½ years. She expected she be doing home checks even if this marriage didn’t last.
Sometimes she tried to remember how she got to this place. She remembered growing up in a project with no father around just a bunch of uncles. It’s not that any of the uncles were mean to her or inappropriate her mother would never allow that. The issue was no one stayed for long. No matter what her mother did everyone left.
That was when Naomi learned the truth. You had to get yours because you can only pay people for so long before they up and left anyway. When she had a baby, she was going to get them a pet. They would never be alone, and they would know what true unconditional love felt like.
Corey would just have to deal with her ultimatum about a pet. She wasn’t going to shrink in the face of his demands anymore. When he had met her, she was vibrant and was on her way to law school. A couple of words and two trips to Paris and she had convinced herself it was love and they married right away with him ten years her senior saying how he wanted children right away so he could play with them.
It was a shame that she was so enthralled with his money that she neglected to notice that he couldn’t seem to start a single sentence without him saying “I”, “For me” or “It’s best in my experience...” Those flaws had been hidden as she went by the Eiffel Towers.
Corey came back into the room with a steaming cup of coffee.
“Naomi, I think you should get a job,” Corey said.
“Excuse me?”
You heard me. I think the doctor is right and that you are stressed. I think the way to work through this stress is for you to start doing normal things. You were working when I met you maybe you should try to do it again?”
“And our project?”
“We will give it a rest.”
Naomi heard the words and knew that Corey never stopped until he got what he wanted. She was going to be working and they weren’t going to be working on the baby? Naomi knew what this was. She straightened her back and clasp her hands in her lap.
“Is she an employee in the company? Please tell me you at least had the decency to find someone who is not on your payroll?”
“I can tell that you are too sensitive already. There are so many people on my payroll I don’t think it should even matter.”
Those words settled in her heart and ice radiated from the painful pricks. He wasn’t going to apologize, and she knew he just expected her to accept it.
“Let’s go eat dinner now,” Corey announced and then held out a hand for her to get up from the couch. She looked at his hand and then looked up at him.
