The Dysfunctional Valentine by Hadena James

Author:Hadena James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, mystery, romantic comedy, humorous, romantic mystery, female mystery, hadena james, nadine daniels
Publisher: Hadena James

Tuesday

I awoke way before dawn. My stomach was churning. I rushed to the bathroom and made it just in time. I hadn’t thought about dinner when I took the Percocet. Now I was going to pay the price.

I was wondering if this week could get any worse, when Melina came into the bathroom. She wet a rag and put it on the back of my neck. She pulled my hair back into a ponytail and sat down on the edge of the bathtub.

“You really shouldn’t be taking those pain pills if you are pregnant. They could hurt the baby,” she informed me.

“I’m not pregnant mom.”

“Are you sure? You’ve been throwing up a lot lately and you’ve put on a few pounds.”

“I’ve been throwing up because of the Percocet. I have to eat when I take it, even then sometimes it still makes me sick. Stress makes it worse. Getting married is stressful. Me getting married is even more stressful. Me getting shot and having all this other crap happen the week I get married is just icing on the stress cake. And if I’ve put on weight, it’s because Zeke cooks almost every meal and I don’t exercise enough to compensate for that. Several nights a week, I used to have popcorn or potato chips, now I have meals. I was bound to gain some weight.”

“Stress will make you gain weight.”

“Yes and I have been very stressed. You know Zeke and I didn’t elope and that we are both just agreeing to this wedding because it is easier than arguing with you, right?”

“Yes, but he’s a good man and you’ll be a happy couple, so it worked out.”

I threw up again. I really wanted to stun gun her, but I was betting Alex didn’t have it upstairs. I put my head on the rim of the toilet.

“Sometimes, Nadine, a mother has to do what a mother has to do. Telisa knows too, but she agrees with me. The two of you are going to get married and have years of wedded bliss. If we left it up to the two of you, you’d just continue to be roommates until you died, alone, of old age. This is better.”

“We don’t love each other,” I protested.

“Love,” my mother made a noise. “Love is grown and earned, it isn’t a flash in the pan, a spark that ignites the first time you lay eyes on each other. You are almost 33 years old, Nadine. It is time to get married and Zeke is perfect. He comes from a good family. He’s a good man. He’ll work to make you happy.”

“I don’t believe this,” I groaned.

“Do you need anything?”

“Unfortunately, food,” I flushed the toilet.

“I’ll go downstairs and make you something,” my mother exited through one door, I went back into my room using the other.

“You are not going to believe this!” I shouted waking up both Kenzie and Alex.

“What now?” Kenzie groaned.

“Come on Nadine,” Alex moaned.

“My mother knows! Telisa knows! Yet they are still going to make us go through with the wedding.

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