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And if she doesn’t forgive him, I’ll finally have a chance to make Trixie mine.
Chapter 4
Chris
Joel has been giving me the silent treatment at work. Guess everyone there knows that I’m not with Trixie anymore.
I get home to Allan’s and avoid both him and Jess, heading straight for the spare room I’m sleeping in. Seeing the texts from Trixie, telling me she loves me, kills me. I want to go back to her, to tell her the truth and try to work it out, but I can’t. Not yet. I need a damn plan first.
My phone starts buzzing and I don’t recognize the number so I answer it, thinking maybe it’s Lacey wanting to finally talk about what’s going to happen now that she’s officially ruined my life and possibly my marriage.
“Hello?” I say.
“You mother fucking asshole.” Shit, it’s Jilla, my mother-in-law.
“Jilla,” I start.
“Don’t you Jilla me, you son of a bitch. I can’t believe you would do this. Just wanted to call to let you know that I’m setting my daughter up on a date. You can kiss your wife goodbye for good.” She hangs up.
I sit up in bed, furious. Shit. My Trixie on a date? No, Trix wouldn’t do that. Would she? The old Trix would in a heartbeat. I know her track record, it made me hesitant on dating her in the first place. She’d date someone, and within a week of the break up, she’d be dating someone else.
But she’s different now.
I contemplate picking up the phone and calling her, but that thought gets shoved down the shitter when my phone rings and I see it’s my mom.
Sighing, I slide my finger over the answer button. “Hey, Mom.”
“Did you put her up to this?” she demands angrily.
“Put who up to what?”
“That shitty wife of yours’ mother! That’s what. She called me, cussing me out. Said I need to leave Trixie alone or she’s driving up to visit me to put her foot up my ass! I should call the cops! She threatened me!”
“Mom, just shut up. She’s right. Youareleaving Trixie alone. I don’t want you calling her, not for any reason.”
“You always did take their side over mine. I always told you that girl was no good for you, but you never listened. She couldn’t even deliver a baby alive.” She tsks’. “You should just move back home and start the divorce. Then I can find you a nice girl to marry and have babies with.”
“I love Trixie, that hasn’t changed. If you don’t stop bad mouthing her, I swear I’m done with you, done with dad. All of it. We’re not divorcing, we’re just taking a break from each other. Losing Lola was hard on both of us and we lost our way. That’s all.”
“I don’t know what we ever did to you and your brother for you to do this to us.” She’s crying now, but I don’t buy that act.
“He pulling that shit Steve did now?” I hear my father slur in the background. With that, I hang up. Only more bullshit will be said once he gets involved, and I don’t want to deal with either of them right now. Growing up, they always had a drinking problem. They pushed my older brother, Steve, away a few years ago for the same bullshit they’ve put Trixie through. He had enough of them bad-mouthing his wife, Nica, and being drunk around the kids all the time, so he hasn’t seen or spoken to them since.
I don’t blame him. I have my own bullshit to deal with.
Chapter 5
Trixie
The last three months have been hard, but I’ve been managing. Chris still hasn’t come home, still hasn’t told me why he is doing this to us. Something is going on, everywhere I go, people look at me with pity. People are whispering. The only good thing is that he’s still putting money into our joint account, so our bills all get paid.
Sitting on the couch readingBeauty and the Bikerby Glenna Maynard, I’m interrupted by a knock at the door. Opening it up, I come face to face with Vinny, my niece’s uncle. As usual, his ugly old beanie hat is on his head and he has a cigarette hanging from his mouth. He’s on the skinny side of the Angels Warriors guys, but it suits him.
“Hey, what are you doing here?” I ask, confused.
He stares at me, not saying anything for a few minutes and then his face goes angry. “Fuck, you don’t know yet? I’m gonna kill the fucker.”
“Huh?”
