Chapter 82
Both Evangeline and Walter eyed the insistent phone. With a nudge, she urged Walter to give her some
space.
Realizing she had something urgent to attend to, Walter backed off with a resigned sigh and started scrolling through his phone.
He was frustrated to no end. Why did every perfect moment between them have to be interrupted? Was fate really against him and Evangeline being together?
Evangeline, oblivious to Walter’s inner turmoil, could not help but think that her estranged father, Andrew, had unwittingly done her a favor that time.
“What’s up?” she snapped as she answered the call disdainfully.
“You better come over tonight! Meet me at Crystal Waters Apartment,” Andrew barked back, even less politely.
Evangeline pulled the phone away from her ear, saving herself from his grating, loud voice.
“Ha, as if 111 jump just because you say so. Who do you think you are? You think you’re something special just because you’re my dad?” She lashed out, unafraid. With her grandfather’s support, she was far from the shivering, lonely little girl she once was in the cold winters of her childhood.
“You backstabber. You’ve got the nerve to bad–mouth your own dad? Aren’t you scared of getting zapped by a bolt from the blue?” Andrew was all fired up when he heard Evangeline’s words.
“Hal Struck by lightning? You’ve done plenty of vile stuff without batting an eye, so what’s there for me to fear? If lightning is going to hit anyone, it should be you first, you heartless, greedy snake!
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“Got anything else to say? If you’re not six feet under, don’t bother calling me. Just the sound of voice is enough to make my skin crawll” Evangeline spat out her words without pausing for air. Walter, standing off to the side, silently gave Evangeline a thumbs–up. She was a real warrior, bold enough to lash out at her own father like that.
Thinking about it, the way Evangeline had chewed him out before seemed pretty tame in comparison, did she not?
He did not give a hoot about how Evangeline treated her father. Walter knew bits and pieces about the family drama–how Evangeline’s mom passed away when she was little, and Andrew married Lydia. From that point on, he never saw Evangeline in clothes that fit right, and even in the dead of winter, she would be in a flimsy dress and flip–flops, her hands and feet chapped and raw.
Back then, Trey kept a tight leash on his wallet, so Walter and some buddies shook down other kids for protection money‘ to buy Evangeline a proper winter coat. However, the very next day, that coat was warming Julia instead.
After that, Evangeline vanished. When he pressed Julia, she said Evangeline had gone off to a rural area with her grandfather.
Walter did not know the whole story, but the bits he saw were enough to tell him Andrew was no ‘Father of the Year“. If Evangeline had not been scooped up by her grandfather, she might have ended up a
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popsicle in that blizzardy winter.
“Evangeline, do you really believe I killed your mother?” Andrew’s voice thundered through the phone.
“What else am I supposed to think? If you hadn’t cheated with Lydia while my mom was pregnant, would she have been driven to such despair that she took her own life as well as her unborn child’s?” Every time Evangeline thought about it, she seethed with a rage so deep she wanted to tear Andrew and Lydia apart.
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