Total pages in book: 55
Estimated words: 51765 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 259(@200wpm)___ 207(@250wpm)___ 173(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 51765 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 259(@200wpm)___ 207(@250wpm)___ 173(@300wpm)
“I’m not your daddy, and if you push me too far I will tan your ass. You wanna act like a brat I can help you with that.”
“Fine, this isn’t going to get us anywhere, I’ll just go back to Kyle’s until it’s safe for me to leave.”
“Get back here.” I literally had to drag her back from the door. I had a hollow feeling in my gut at the thought of her leaving me, but I couldn’t pay too much attention to my unusual feelings right now. I was too busy trying to keep my wife from running away. My wife, fuck, why couldn’t she understand?
“Why can’t you see that I’m trying to protect you?” I felt her body relax under my hand as she looked back at me. I could see from the look on her face that my statement had confused her.
“Protect me from what?”
“Me.”
“I don’t understand Lawton.”
“Look, you went away to that fancy school where they trained you to be some rich man’s wife. I’ve got the dough babe, but I don’t have the principle.
Someone like you would be too soft for me. You won’t get flowers everyday and candlelight dinners and shit like that. My life is always going to be like this, at least for the foreseeable future.
This is no place for someone like you, don’t you get it?”
“Someone like me, exactly what are you saying, that you think I’m weak?”
No, I don’t think you’re weak, but the tears gathering in your eyes right now might be a dead giveaway. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this girl?
Can’t she see I’m trying to do the right thing here? It’s been a long time since I’ve walked that path and she’s not making it easy. Of course I want to fuck her, but if I do that with my grandmother’s rings on her finger, I feel like I’d be crossing some line, boxing myself in.
She isn’t for me, it’s like I told her she was too fucking soft for a man like me. If she really knew what I would ask of her as a wife she’d run screaming.
“I’m not calling you weak, I’m just saying that there are some things that go on between a man and a woman that you may not be ready for.”
“How would you know if you never give me the chance? I’m telling you right now Lawton, if things don’t change around here I’m going to be gone, and next time you won’t find me so easy.”
“Don’t threaten me or I’ll tie your ass to my bed and leave you there if that’s the only way to keep you out of trouble.”
“I don’t see why you’d go to the trouble, you said yourself, all I’m good for is to be the wife of some gentleman somewhere, and since I graduated with honors I think it only right that I strike while the iron is hot.”
“What the fuck are you talking about now?”
“I need a husband and since you’re not it, I need to get the ball rolling on finding one. I can’t very well do that here unless I pick one of the men you have running around here.”
She had the good sense to back away when I approached her and her eyes widened as she realized for the first time that she’d pushed me too far.
“Fucking try it! Okay, you think you want this? Wait right here, I’ll be back.” I left her standing with her back against the wall and her hand around her throat, like she thought I had been about to strangle her. I probably should and put myself out of my misery.
Chapter 4
I was pissed all the way to my room, as I dug out the little packet I had hidden in my drawer. It was a little something I’d cooked up when I was going through a phase or some shit.
It had started out just for kicks, but as time went on, I’d come to see the truth in what was included in there.
Walking back into the room, I threw the envelope at her. “You want to be my wife? In there is a list of all the things that shit requires. Look it over, and if you can make me believe that you can do those things then we’ve got a deal.”
I can’t believe she’d fucking beaten me, but I think I’d known that from the moment I put that ring on her finger.
Of course there were other courses of action I could’ve taken to protect her, but something about her had drawn me. I thought I had it all under control though, I never expected the little mouse to call me on my shit.
She opened the packet and looked at the pictures that fell out. I didn’t say anything when she turned to look at me with a befuddled look on her face.