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Chapter One
The Past
Hanging my purse on the back of the kitchen chair, I’m careful not to wake my girl or her father. By the looks of the empty fridge and the bare cabinets, Adam didn’t go to the store like I asked him to. I would have gone myself, but there was no time on my way to work and by the time my shift ends, there’s nothing open other than gas stations. I can’t afford to pay the price of their late-night convenience.
Their prices are three times that of the grocery stores.
Blowing out a huff, I kick off my shoes and rub the back of my neck. My feet are killing me. Cradling my belly, my other girl gives me a little kick as if to remind me that I’m sticking this out for her and her sister.
Adam keeps promising me he’s got something lined up, but if he doesn’t start bringing in some money soon, I’m scared we’re going to be evicted. I’m not earning enough money to cover all our bills. I’ve been applying everywhere I can, hoping to secure something else part time until Kiesha arrives in a few months.
No one wants to hire a heavily pregnant woman who often misses due to not having childcare all the time. My brother and his wife help when they can, but watching Kimber isn’t their responsibility. Daycare is expensive and I don’t know what we’ll do once the baby comes.
Things were great until my husband rolled the rock truck he was driving at the strip mine. He injured his shoulder and went on unemployment, but those checks ran out and so is my patience with him.
My brother tries to give him odd jobs for the motorcycle club he belongs to, but says Adam isn’t reliable. Not that I want him doing illegal crap, but we’ve got our girls to consider.
He’s lucky he wasn’t charged with a DUI when he wrecked that truck. Everyone knows he was drinking on the job. He’s even luckier he didn’t kill someone.
Trudging down the hallway of our two-bedroom trailer, I check in on Kimber first.
Her bed is empty. She must have fallen asleep with her daddy again.
I enter our bedroom to get changed for bed and my heart drops to my feet.
Adam’s bare ass shines as bright as the moon in the dark room next to the slut laying next to him.
Bile jets up the back of my throat in a fiery trail, shooting straight from my nostrils as I cover my face and run for the bathroom.
Dropping to my knees, I pay worship to the porcelain throne as I retch.
I wish I could say this is the first time he’s cheated, but sadly, it’s not.
I’m stuck in this rut with him, and I don’t know how to escape this never-ending hell.
This time I don’t even bother to get sad, only angry. At this point, I’ve grown numb to his betrayals. My husband wouldn’t know the meaning of the words loyal or honest if they walked up and bit him on the head of his precious dick.
After cleaning myself up, I calmly take the plastic mop bucket out from beneath the kitchen sink and fill it with warm water.
I carry it down the hall, not caring that it’s sloshing over the edge and splattering all over the carpet. Pausing at the foot of our bed, the one we made our daughters in, I stare at the man I swore I’d love forever, finding myself filled with nothing but hate in my heart.
I lift the bucket and chuck it forward, splashing the water on the pair of them, getting satisfaction as they both jump up off the bed naked as the day they were born.
“What the fuck?” Adams seethes as I flick on the bedroom light.
I look at the woman as she gapes at me and recognize her immediately.
The babysitter Adam said was the girlfriend of a buddy from the mines.
Right. Color me stupid once again.
“Where’s my daughter?”
Adam stomps toward me, swinging his dick around like he thinks he’s so big and bad.
What I ever saw in him, I’ll never know. Why I ever loved this man and believed in all of his lies is beyond me. His brown eyes bore into me with nothing but hatred shadowing his gaze. His top lip curls as he shoves me into the dresser behind me. The knobs press into my back.
“Go ahead. Hit me. Give my brother a reason to kill you.”
