Crazy Wanda: An Angela Constantine Novella by Terry Goodkind

Author:Terry Goodkind
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Swallow's End Publishing
Published: 2018-11-25T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Wanda left her parents’ house as soon as she had packed a couple of suitcases and stuffed some shoes, hair products, and her makeup case into tote bags. Her parents were still in the living room, still ranting about Wanda’s sins. She ignored them on her way out. She could hear the front door being locked behind her.

She drove around for a while, seething over the betrayal, furious over what Ricky’s wife had said to her. The nerve of the woman had Wanda gritting her teeth in a rage and squeezing the life out of the steering wheel.

She had no place to stay and no one to stay with, so she got a room at the Riley Motel. The place was a dump, but it was by-the-week and cheap, which was all she could afford, and besides, she didn’t plan on living there long. She was sick and tired of waiting on other people to make the changes that needed to be made. It was time for her to take control and set things right.

Ricky wasn’t ever going to do what needed doing on his own. He didn’t have the necessary initiative. Fortunately, Ricky was pliable as putty. She simply needed to mold him to do what needed to be done.

It wasn’t her night to work. It was Angela’s night, though. Wanda was livid that someone had gone behind her back and told Ricky’s wife about them. It complicated things.

There was only one person it could be: Angela.

Angela was always reminding her that Ricky was married. Wanda had thought she and Angela were friends. It was hard to believe that Angela would stab her in the back like this. It had to be that she was jealous of what Wanda had with Ricky. Otherwise a friend wouldn’t go behind a friend’s back and double-cross them.

The more she thought about the betrayal the angrier she became. She couldn’t get it out of her mind. The way Ricky’s wife had barged in on Wanda was humiliating. All because Angela had betrayed her.

Once it was dark, she drove down the long hill and cruised through the parking lot of Barry’s Place. She saw Angela’s pickup parked there, but not finding who she was looking for she kept going, trying to think of where he could be. She drove slowly through the parking lot of a small nearby strip mall, but didn’t see him there, either. Since he seemed to hang around the bar a lot, she went back there, thinking he might have shown up by then. No luck. She drove slowly through a couple of neighborhoods known for drugs, but he was nowhere to be seen.

On her way back to the bar again she finally spotted him at a liquor store. He was leaning up against the wall on the darker side of the building, smoking a cigarette and drinking from a bottle in a brown paper bag. His pink bicycle was leaned up against the wall next to him. He was alone.

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