Mollie McQueen is NOT Getting Divorced by Lacey London

Author:Lacey London [London, Lacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: SSO Publishing
Published: 2018-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

‘Mollie, when we first met, you rated your desire to separate as an eight out of ten.’ Evangelina said thoughtfully, studying the paperwork in front of her. ‘Would you say that number has changed at all?’

Mollie locked eyes with Evangelina and considered her question carefully. What Evangelina didn’t know was, when Mollie circled the number eight on the questionnaire, she secretly wanted to circle ten. She had knocked one point off out of guilt and another so that she didn’t come across as a heartless cow.

‘Mollie?’ Evangelina pressed. ‘On a scale of one to ten, where are you now?’

As much as Mollie didn’t want to admit it, her number had changed. She was probably at a seven, a genuine seven, but she was clueless as to why.

‘Probably a seven.’ Mollie replied honestly, trying not to stare at Evangelina’s very obvious cleavage.

‘How about you, Max?’ Evangelina asked. ‘You initially marked your desire to separate as a two. Where would you put yourself now?’

‘I’m going to go with a five.’ He said without hesitation. ‘A strong five.’

Making a scribble on the page in red ink, Evangelina reached for another file.

Mollie didn’t need Evangelina to tell her she and Max were moving in different directions. It just wasn’t the direction Mollie expected. When she first told Max she was leaving him, all Mollie wanted was for him to make the split amicable. She simply wanted him to agree their relationship was dead in the water and to bring it to its natural end. But hearing him edge closer towards the big number ten made her feel something she couldn’t quite describe. All she knew was that she didn’t like it one little bit.

‘To what extent did your date last night influence your decision to change your number?’ Evangelina asked Max, hovering her pen over the page.

‘Massively.’ He answered. ‘Throughout the evening, I found myself comparing how very different it was to having Mollie with me. There was no complaining, no criticising, no talking over the match…’

‘I don’t talk over the match!’ Mollie protested.

‘Are you kidding me? I can’t remember the last time I watched a game without hearing you whine about not understanding the offside rule!’

‘I do apologise for taking an interest.’ She retorted, anger rising in her throat. ‘Wasn’t that one of our core rules? To take an interest in each other’s hobbies?’

‘Another of our core rules was to avoid sarcasm, but you seem to have conveniently forgotten that one.’

‘Alright…’ Evangelina interrupted, holding up her hands to intervene. ‘Good communication is essential to building a happy relationship, and that is clearly something we are going to have to work on. Having the ability to listen to your partner’s concerns and really process what they are saying is incredibly empowering.’

Mollie screwed up her nose and looked away as Evangelina continued to speak.

‘Communication is a key area of marriage where couples generally face problems. Many of us, myself included, often think we are listening, but the reality is we are simply hearing words and responding without giving proper thought to where those words have come from.

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