Pretty Much Screwed by Jenna McCarthy

Author:Jenna McCarthy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

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“It was incredible, Lizzy,” Charlotte gushed to her friend. “I mean, the wedding itself was incredible, too, of course, but having Jack really look at me like that? Like he was interested in me and appreciated me and, well, like he actually liked me? It’s been years. Probably more than a decade even. And he apologized! He admitted that he was responsible for our marriage falling apart and he actually apologized. It wasn’t just more of that ‘Charlotte, I’m so sorry’ crap, either. This was a sincere admission of guilt. I don’t think I’ve ever been happier than I am at this moment.” Charlotte stretched out on her lounge chair like a cat in the sun. They were at Lizzy and Dr. Dick’s fancy country club, one of Charlotte’s favorite places on earth. She had a glass of wine and a trashy magazine and was spray-tanned within an inch of her life. What more could a woman want?

“Let me get this straight,” Lizzy said, twisting her gigantic wedding ring off her finger and dropping it into her lap so she could reapply sun block. “You’re over-the-moon ecstatic about an encounter with Jack?”

“I know, it’s crazy,” Charlotte admitted. “But for almost two years I’ve been beating myself up, trying to figure out what went wrong, what I could have done differently. And Jack just admitted it was all his fault! Wouldn’t you have wanted to hear that from Adam?”

“Yeah, maybe, I don’t know.” Lizzy wavered, considering the question. “I guess I always knew it was Adam’s fault. I mean, he had the affair, right? It was pretty straightforward.”

“For you!” Charlotte said, a little louder than she’d intended. “See, only people who look like you—and are like you—think that way! Normal people would be beating themselves up, going, ‘Obviously I drove him to this. It’s me. Of course it’s my fault. A decent wife can keep a man. I, on the other hand, am a horrible, miserable failure as a life partner and a person.’”

“Wow,” Lizzy said with a laugh. “That’s pretty fucked up. I guess I’m glad I’m not normal.”

“You have no idea,” Charlotte said, raising her glass in a toast.

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