So Wrong, So Right by Brenda Ford

Author:Brenda Ford [Ford, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

James

What the fuck? Me and Dad remain in stunned silence as we watch what’s going on. I want to put a stop to this, the primal instinct inside of me wants to launch myself at Mary for what she has just done to Rue, but a bigger bit of my brain freezes me in place and makes me stay. It just feels like the right thing to do.

“You bitch!” Rue yells at her mother. “I can’t believe you hit me.”

“Maybe if your father had done that more, then we wouldn’t be in this position right now.”

I expect Rue to say some more, but she looks defeated, like she doesn’t know what the hell to do. I watch the cogs ticking around in her brain, waiting for the right moment to jump in to save her, but it seems like she doesn’t need it. Instead, she finally turns on her heels and tears out of the house before slamming the door hard.

“What the fuck?” I find my voice, and direct it at Mary. I know that I should chase after Rue, but it seems like she needs a couple of seconds to get her head in order, alone. “What the fuck did you do there?”

She shrugs her shoulders and smirks, finding this amusing- which only angers me more. “I did what I needed to do. This situation is completely messed up. You need to see how wrong this is. I keep trying to show you, but you aren’t listening. I don’t want it to end up like that, I don’t want to fight, but you need to see…”

“And who the hell are you to judge? Huh? Who the fuck are you to make judgements on us?”

“I’m her mother, your stepmother. That gives me a lot of right to say what I want.”

“We are adults,” I scream frustratedly. “And you are no stepmother of mine.” I’m not getting through to her, I can see that already, so I turn to face my father. “Dad, I can’t be around this woman. I can’t be anywhere near her. She isn’t a decent woman, and I think you know that.” Mary makes a bitchy noise, but I completely ignore that. “I don’t want to lose the relationship that I have with you, but I don’t want to see her either.”

“Son, don’t go. Just stay here so we can talk about this some more. Please.”

“I have to look after Rue. She needs me. You don’t need me, you have Mary. Plus, with her around, we can’t have a proper conversation, can we? We have just proved that doesn’t work at all. I need to go. I need to get out of here before she makes me freak the fuck out. I can’t even deal right now.”

This is not how I wanted to leave today, I really wanted a resolution, but it seems that’s impossible. It’s clearer than ever now that me and Dad can’t get things back on track, because of Mary. While he’s married to her, this isn’t ever going to work.

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