Total pages in book: 22
Estimated words: 19898 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 99(@200wpm)___ 80(@250wpm)___ 66(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 19898 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 99(@200wpm)___ 80(@250wpm)___ 66(@300wpm)
Chapter 4
The next morning I woke to someone retching. "What the fuck?" I jumped off the bed and headed for the bathroom where the noise was coming from and found my wife kneeling on the tiled floor with her head in the bowl. My heart hurt, the traitorous fuck, I hated to see her in any kind of pain angry or not and she looked a pitiful mess. I got a washcloth and wet it at the sink before kneeling beside her and putting it to her forehead.
"You done?" She gave me a feeble ass nod against my chest and I flushed the toilet and picked her up in my arms, rinsed her mouth and headed for the couch. I sat there with her in my lap until she was over the shakes. I didn't know that this pregnancy shit went down like that, I’m gonna have to get some books and read up on this shit.
"What do I need to do for you to make this stop?"
"Nothing, just hold me please." Her voice was small and weak, how long did this shit last anyway? I was trying to remember if I'd ever heard anything about this morning sickness shit and what people usually did for it. I would call my mom but my phone was in the bedroom and she didn't seem like she was moving off my lap anytime soon.
I laid my head back against the couch and prepared to be there for a while. It wasn't long before I heard her gentle little snores that told me she'd fallen off to sleep again. I moved one of my hands and placed it over the place where my kid laid, my heart full to bursting with love before I became pissed the fuck off again. I should be enjoying this shit, impending fatherhood, instead I'm under a cloud of distrust and fury that's standing in the way of me rejoicing at my good fortune. What the fuck was I supposed to do now? I can't yell at her, she's fucking pregnant, I'm not am animal and Shaw that fuck is in hiding or some shit ever since I kicked his ass and I seriously need to fuck somebody's shit up like now.
I got up and took her to the bed she'd slept in the night before. Looking down at her I saw my Madelyn, the girl I'd fallen head over heels for. But how could that be? She wasn't the same anymore, things had changed, the innocent sweetheart I'd married was no more. She'd crossed the line into something else. I could never again see her as what she once was and that was sad. I felt robbed somehow; jipped, and I hated her for it. I turned and left the room before I lost my mind, there was a car pulling up outside as I went past the living room headed for the kitchen. What the fuck now?
"Chief."
"My daughter here Hearst?"
"Yep."
"She in one piece?"
"She's carrying my seed so for now she's fine."
"What does that mean?"
My glare was answer enough.
"Maybe I ought to take her out of here until this situation calms down." He made as if to come up on the porch. I stayed in my relaxed pose, one shoulder resting against the pole, arms folded across my chest.
"Not gonna happen, my kid stays here, after he or she is born you can come get your daughter, until then no dice."
"Are you really this angry about a silly mistake that doesn't amount to a hill of beans?"
"You better believe it, now if there's nothing else I haven't had my morning coffee."
"I want to see Maddy..."
"She just went back to sleep she woke up sick, you're not waking her up. You can come back later if you want but if you come here with any bullshit it'll be the last time. I've had my quota of bullshit for the year so hear me out, she came to me, she's carrying my kid, she's still my wife so whatever I want to do with her is my fucking business. You're her dad, I understand that but please understand that you have no say in this situation, this is between my wife and me. You try to get involved I will pack her up and be gone until my kid is born safe and sound, you following me?"
"Damn Dominic, I never thought I'd see the day when you could be this hard, not with her."
"Yeah well you never know how you'll react to the whole town thinking your wife was fucking around on you while you were off protecting your country. Trust me the fact that your daughter is still among the living should tell you how safe she is with me."
"Dominic..."
"Save it, there's nothing you can say to make this shit any better, the situation is fucked."