Bitter Justice by Olivia Jaymes

Author:Olivia Jaymes [Jaymes, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blonde Ambition Press
Published: 2019-08-19T18:30:00+00:00

13

Tanner had finally spoken the words out loud. He'd told his wife that he might be having a midlife crisis.

And it made him sound like a huge emotionally needy wuss.

If Maddie was thinking about how to divorce his ass, he wouldn't be surprised.

He'd made her cry, too. He hated when that happened and he usually did everything in his power to make sure he didn’t do it. She was right, though. He always tried to make sure they didn't fight. Even if it meant burying any issues they might have. It looked like it had all caught up with them, though.

"Do you want to hear something funny?" Maddie said, her hand gliding up and down his back in a soothing motion. He wasn't feeling relaxed, though. If he could jump out of his skin, he'd do it right now. "I've been feeling sort of restless myself. I just want to slow life down and make it last. I want to savor it but it just keeps flying by. I told Sherry about it and she told me that I was probably going through a midlife crisis. It looks like we're doing it together. It's kind of romantic in a weird and twisted way."

His sweet Maddie. She could make him laugh at the strangest of times.

"She told you that you were going through a midlife crisis? You're not old enough. You're only–"

"Forty," Maddie interrupted, moving her hand abruptly from where she'd been massaging his shoulders. "Forty years old, Tanner. As in not a child or a teenager or even a young woman. I'm a middle-aged wife and mother. Forty is middle-aged. I am not the same age as when you married me, but I swear, you will always think that you are wiser than I am. I'll be eighty and you'll be ninety-five and you'll still pull the wisdom card on me."

Ouch. Was he that bad? No...maybe. He ran through dozens of their conversations in his recent memory and he didn't like what he saw.

"I've been dismissive," Tanner said with a groan. "I haven't been listening, have I?"

"No, you haven't."

"I'm listening now."

"I thought we were talking about you."

"My problems can wait."

"So can mine." She turned toward him, their knees pressed together. "We've already started you so let's get that done first. You said that you're feeling restless but you don't know why."

He didn't know why but damn, he'd given it a hell of a lot of thought these past weeks.

"I'm glad I got fired."

The words were blunt and to the point. He'd never admitted them to himself but with Maddie he felt safe enough to say them out loud.

It was true. He was glad.

Whatever Maddie had been expecting him to say, that wasn't it. Her eyes were wide with shock and her mouth had fallen open.

"I'm glad I got fired," he repeated. That repressive weight that he'd been carrying around on his shoulders for months was suddenly lifted away. He felt better already. "It's hard for me to admit but it's the truth.

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