Ex-Wife Moving Wife Giving Birth? Congratulations, You’re Single Now novel Chapter 51

Chapter 5

Zachary had always been the respectable one, which meant all the dirty work fell to me.

I became the neighborhood’s infamous shrew.

According to everyone around here, Mrs. Howard couldn’t stand being disrespected.

Hot–tempered and petty–last time old Mr. Peterson pissed me off, I sat on his front porch with a kitchen knife, cursing him out for three straight

hours.

Nobody dared try to break it up.

They also loved to gossip about how this crazy bitch got jealous when Zachary spent five minutes talking to Lorna, the community college’s pretty little princess.

So I grabbed a baseball bat and went looking for her.

I wasn’t born mean. But when your husband won’t step up, someone has to be the bad guy.

Back when I was young, I used to dream about someone loving me for who I was.

When the matchmaker introduced me to Zachary, she gushed about how he was this educated city boy, college graduate, destined for some fancy office job.

I shyly glanced up to find Zachary nervously tugging at his shirt hem, nodding at me politely.

“Miss Wilson, I’m Zachary Howard. Nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you too.”

I stared at him with starry eyes, my heart pounding like crazy. I fell head over heels in that instant.

During our courtship, Zachary was actually pretty romantic.

He’d take me to lie in the wheat fields and watch the stars, holding my hand while telling embarrassing childhood stories.

He’d give me rides on his motorcycle through the countryside, speeding up just to make me hold him tighter.

He’d take me to the local diner for milkshakes, walk me through downtown window shopping, buying me anything I looked at twice.

Married life was even sweeter.

He remembered everything I loved and hated, handed over his entire paycheck, hegged for kisses every single day.

I was more than happy to carry his children.

All that happiness came crashing down the moment Lorna walked back into his life…

He didn’t love me anymore–just felt obligated to me.

Everything about me had to take a backseat to Lorna.

Even my own kids followed his lead, ignoring me completely.

In my past life, I died alone on New Year’s Eve from a stroke.

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