Unhinged by Ren Alexander

Author:Ren Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ren Alexander
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

“Simone is my wife.”

I never thought I’d utter that. Our ground rules stated we wouldn’t. Instead of grating me, it awakens me.

I’m married to Simone. For real.

And I don’t hate it.

Not a bit.

What I feel for Simone is crystal clear to me now, and it scares me more than Betsy’s office buzzing.

It first rooted when I watched Simone sleep in Baltimore. Because of that, I couldn’t even take Simone to a casual dinner, as her mother had suggested during Wilder and Hadley’s fuckfest weekend at a hotel. Yeah, Hadley getting married upset me, but I also fought what I felt for another woman.

It grew when we teased each other on the softball field, at the hospital, Brandon’s party, and at the gym when I helped her to snag Officer Dickwad, and it’s why I didn’t think he was good enough for her.

It sprouted even more when she defended me to Morgan at the diner and the gym.

It spread like wildfire when she helped me with Birdy.

It bloomed when I realized it the night at Jake’s when I first kissed her but still believed Simone only wanted me for a rebound from Tesco.

Now that I cultivated it, I don’t know what to do.

Since I trusted Hadley, she became my safe space and security blanket. Whenever I got closer to Simone, the night where my friends and my high school crush pinned me to the couch and tore down my sweatpants will forever remind me that I’m a damn punchline. I feared Simone would mock me for liking her, so I argued with her. It kept me connected to Simone while keeping her at a distance. I pursued Hadley more so because it was safer for me. But the more time I spent with Simone, the more I let down my guard. I was so damn conflicted because I had only wanted Hadley for so fucking long.

After the fight with Simone, I went to Hadley’s because, like how Hadley turned to me after Wilder left, I sought her as a rebound to numb the goddamn pain. Simone Garrison created chaos in my life when she broke my trust and trashed my heart. But I was so wrong about all of it.

Simone and I turn in our clubs and balls and then grab our things. When we go outside in the chilly night air, the truth I’ve denied for so long rushes through me, and it intensifies like a lightning bolt to an umbrella. For the things Cynthia spouted about Simone, she was a second away from me beating the shit out of her with my putter before handing it to her schlub husband, Ted. I know he wants to finish the job since he’s forever trapped in a disastrous and drunken one-night stand that broke up his first marriage. He only married Cynthia to justify the moronic dick slip.

Holding Simone’s hand, we walk to my truck. Lost in thought, it jars me somewhat when she asks, “What’s the matter? Your hand is shaking.

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