Unleash Me: Wedding (The Unleash Me Series) by Christina Ross

Author:Christina Ross [Ross, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christina Ross
Published: 2017-07-30T18:30:00+00:00

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Despite the blistering sun, the walk to the airport was icy. After Ethel parked the Navigator and we got out of the car, she led the way at a crisp, determined clip, and I stayed several paces behind as we walked into the terminal and moved toward Tank’s arrival gate. This was a small regional airport with only six gates, and as I looked around, I saw perhaps a hundred or so people either waiting for a flight or waiting to pick up their loved ones.

But Ethel and I would have to wait to pick up ours. When we stopped to look at the arrivals board, we saw that Tank’s plane had been delayed by thirty minutes.

While I took a seat, Ethel walked over to the wall of windows overlooking the tarmac and just stood there, her loathing of me palpable. Had I been too harsh on her? Not at all. I knew from my youth that the only way to shut down a bully was to stand up to one. Everyone had a personal breaking point, and if bullies crossed it, you needed to be prepared to take them on if they did.

And so I had.

After her Pigs in the Parlor routine, Ethel had essentially jumped me with both fists swinging. If I regretted anything, it was using the F-bomb on her, if only because I knew she’d eventually use it against me, claiming it a blatant show of disrespect against a Christian woman.

There’s nothing I can do at this point, I thought. Best to get it out of my head.

And so I did.

Moments before Tank was scheduled to arrive, Ethel came over to me.

“May I sit down?” she asked.

“If you’d like.”

Instead of taking the seat next to me, she dropped her Louis down upon it and sat down on the chair next to it.

“Mitchell is going to sense the tension between us the moment he gets off that plane,” she said.

“You’re right,” I said. “He is.”

“And he’s going to question it.”

“You’re right,” I repeated. “He is.”

“So, now you’re going to shut down on me?” she asked. “Is that it? You’re not going to even talk to me?”

I looked at her and saw the nervous tension on her face, but I didn’t give a damn about what she was feeling. She’d been too cruel to me for me to care, gone too far for me to give a shit. I’d officially reached my limit with her.

“I’ve already made myself clear,” I said. “But in case you’ve suddenly gone deaf, allow me to reiterate what I said to you in the car. You intentionally set me up on the drive over here. You ambushed me with that CD, you insulted me with it, just as you did with the first CD, and the more I sit here thinking about what you’ve done in the past and how you continue to treat me now, the more I’m considering getting married at that church. Screw your house, Ethel. Tank and I don’t need it.

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