Ex-Wife Moving Wife Giving Birth? Congratulations, You’re Single Now novel Chapter 71

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Garrett’s gentleness? Gone the second I cross him.

He yanks me so hard I stumble.

I hit the bed, can’t even process the pain shooting through my stomach before I’m scrambling up, slapping him across the face.

Garrett’s face swells even more.

He stares at the phone in my hand.

“Give it to me.”

I don’t move.

He grabs for it.

Squeezes my hand, prying my fingers open one by one.

My joints crack, twist completely wrong. I’m screaming but he just keeps going till he gets his phone back.

“Message won’t unsend, Garrett. Too late.”

I start laughing–can’t stop. Sounds insane even to me, half like I’m loving watching him panic, half like I’ve finally

lost it.

“That’s what I called her–homewrecker. Does that hurt you?

“Lauren IS-”

SLAP-

I crash onto the bed.

Every word I was gonna say gets shoved back down my throat. They tumble around inside, turning into pain, turning into nausea, turning into vines with barbs all over them–then they tear through me from the inside out.

My eyes are throbbing, swollen.

I actually wonder if they burst–why else would so much warmth be pouring out?

“Do you have ANY idea what you just did!” Garrett’s screaming now. “You’re stabbing at Lauren’s trauma! Cassie, you’re trying to kill her!”

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“You won’t be happy till she’s dead!”

My voice comes out destroyed, barely there.

“Yeah.”

“You can all drop dead. YOU TOO!”

Garrett goes to the kitchen, comes back with a knife. Shoves it in my hand, presses the blade against his own throat–ready to go down together.

“Do it. Kill me.”

“If you’ve got the guts, do it!!”

“Cassie, I never said I wouldn’t marry you! Lauren’s situation isn’t fixed yet. I can’t deal with you right now.”

“You’ve waited six years. You really can’t wait a little longer? Is love really too much to ask?”

Yes. It is.

I’m pregnant. I don’t want my kid growing up like I did–broken home from day one.

He said I’m stabbing Lauren’s wounds.

But isn’t he doing the same thing to me?

Except he’s not just poking–he’s ripping them wide open with his bare hands, digging in there, twisting everything

apart.

Suddenly, his phone rings.

Kid’s voice, crying: “Mommy ran out crying. I’m scared something’s gonna happen… Dad, please go find her…”

Garrett hauls me up off the bed.

“Come with me. See what you did to Lauren.”

“Cassie, your

selfishness has limits!”

Car’s flying down the highway.

Soon, Lauren’s in view.

Garrett drags me toward her, forces me to apologize.

He presses down on my shoulders, making me kneel in the show. Knees hit frozen ground through thin leggings,

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stinging cold.

“Cassie, I can handle your tantrums, but not THIS!”

“Lauren’s got depression from her divorce. She can’t take this kind of stress.”

Snow’s coming down harder.

The more I shake, the harder he presses.

People walking by all around us. I’m suddenly so jealous of them. No cracks in them–snow hits them and it’s just snow. Not salt in open wounds.

“Garrett, I’m pregnant…”

I look up at him, smiling through all this despair.

Warmth spreading underneath me, slowly turning the snow red.

“I can’t handle stress either…”

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