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For a second his eyes glazed over, but he simply blinked it away.
“Answer me! Where is the woman who should be taking care of her baby? The mother who is missing all Journey’s milestones? Do you both even know what she looks like anymore?” The palms of my hands connected with his chest, giving him a shove.
He didn’t falter.
“Did you know she can pull herself up on furniture and has taken a few steps along it? Do you know how many teeth she has now? Or here’s a good one… What’s her favorite song to be sang to her?”
His chest heaved the further I pushed every button of the truth I’ve been dying to say to him for so long.
“That’s what I thought! You have no idea! You call yourselves parents? Watching from afar on a nanny cam isn’t parenting, it’s neglect. Maybe YOU should be arrested!”
Without missing a beat, he got right up in my face again, snarling in a menacing tone, “You’re fired! Now get the fuck out!”
“What? No!” I shuddered, fervently shaking my head. “You can’t do that! You can’t fire me!”
“I. Just. Did.”
“No! You can’t do this! Journey needs me! And Jackson and I were just turning a corner—”
“Well then, turn your ass around and get the fuck out of my house!”
Before I knew what was happening, he yanked me away from the door, manhandling me. He grabbed my purse off the entry table, opened the door, and tossed it out on the lawn. The contents went everywhere, including my cash and phone.
The tears pooled in my eyes. Threatening to surface when he shoved me out the door next.
My voice.
My heart.
My very being was falling apart.
But I still managed to say, “Please don’t do this … at least … let me say goodbye to them,” I expressed with a shaking breath. “I love them like they were my own.”
He took one last look at me with callous, beady eyes, scoffing, “Well they’re not. You don’t belong in their lives or this house.”
The door slammed in my face with no compassion or regard for how I felt. Leaving me with nothing.
No answers.
Especially, about his wife.
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AIDEN
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I stood there.
My chest heaving.
My heart hammering.
Losing my fucking mind.
I was the beast.
She didn’t deserve any of the bullshit I just spewed or how I treated her. She was the only reason our home was becoming united again after so long.
