Resolution by Lesley Jones

Author:Lesley Jones [Jones, Lesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

We drop Ava off at around four O’clock and Gabe is pissed off when he gets back in the car because of the run in he has had with Nina for getting her back late.

“Did you get a bollocking from the ice queen?”

“Don’t I always?”

“What did you ever see in her?” I ask.

“A fuck, plain and simple, I told you, we met, I was drunk, we had sex, we made Ava, there was never an attraction, she was carrying my child, I felt I had a duty to do the right thing so I looked after her, she wanted more and threatened to leave so I married her, I didn’t love her, there was no attraction so no sex, she screwed around with someone else, I caught her and left…end of the marriage.”

I have heard all of this before and don’t really know why I am torturing myself by asking for the details again, it’s a woman thing I think, we don’t want to know the details but we have to know them, then the we over think and analyse every detail that we are told, we certainly are a complicated gender.

“What are you smiling at?” He asks, looking across at me as he drives.

“Was I smiling?”

“You were.”

“I don’t know really, I was just thinking that women are quite complicated creatures.”

“Well no shit Sherlock, dya think?”

We both laugh and I feel so happy and content and warm inside at the sound of his laughter.

“It’s good to hear you laugh.”

“It’s good to want to laugh. Would you like to go out for dinner tonight and celebrate our engagement and your new ring?”

“I thought we were celebrating Saturday night?”

We have invited our friends and family over Saturday so that we can officially announce our engagement, it all still felt a bit surreal to me, can you get engaged when officially you are still married to someone else? Well, either way, that’s what we are doing, have done.

“No, Saturday is for me and you to share with our friends and family our good news, I would like for just me and you to go out, just us, and celebrate alone; do you feel up to that?”

I actually feel great and I’m starving.

“Yeah, I feel fine, I don’t know what that was all about earlier, I think I was just a bit overwhelmed by everything, the accident, your Dad, us even, how fast everything has happened.”

“Are you having regrets? You still wanna do this, right? Us I mean, married, engaged or whatever.”

“Yeah, yeah of course I do, I just, I don’t know, seeing all the rings laid out in front of me just made it all real; I never got to pick my last engagement ring, I was pregnant and his parents had insisted we get married and he just came home with this awful sapphire and diamond ring and said ‘Oh, I went and got you this today’. And I was just expected to wear it, I didn’t want to seem ungrateful

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