Sister Surrogate by LaChelle Weaver

Author:LaChelle Weaver [Weaver, LaChelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brown Girls Publishing

Chapter Twenty-Four

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he next morning, after her argument with Nick and once again, not getting much sleep and waking up with a gnawing headache, Bridgette got up to make breakfast, but found Cassietta in the kitchen already cooking, and her presence angered Bridgette.

“You don’t have to cook every meal in this house, Cassietta,” Bridgette snapped at her mother-in-law, reaching around her and snatching the teakettle off the stove to fill it with water for tea. She was feeling more nauseous than normal.

“Hmmph, I guess the symptoms of pregnancy are in full effect this morning with your crankiness, but they’re directed at the wrong person. I certainly didn’t get you pregnant, but neither did my son,” Cassietta said and Bridgette wanted to smack that annoying smirk off of her face.

“You know what, Cassietta? I’ve had just about enough of your snide and rude comments. You don’t get to disrespect me in my own house, especially since I pay the mortgage,” Bridgette said, filling the teakettle with water. She didn’t want to have to go there, but she was tired of both her mother-in-law and her husband’s disrespectful behavior toward her.

“And you mention that to prove what, Bridgette? That you’re in control? That might work with my son, but I couldn’t care less about it. So what you bought this big ole house just to prove that you could. You’ve spent your entire marriage doing that and I don’t know how much longer you think Nicholas is going to allow you to keep it up. My guess is not too much longer, considering this last foolish act you’ve done,” Cassietta remarked, flipping French toast on a griddle.

“Oh, you’d just love that wouldn’t you?” Bridgette slammed the teakettle back onto the stove before turning on the burner. “I’m too much of a woman for your liking. I’m not like your other daughter-in-law. I’m not Suzy Homemaker. I actually have a brain and goals and a life of my own.”

She liked her sister-in-law, Yvette and she wasn’t trying to degrade her in any way, but they were two different women, especially with how they approached their marriages. Yvette was a stay-at-home mother to three young daughters that she’d had late in life because Nick’s older brother, Vincent had wanted to wait—for whatever reason he’d given her. Bridgette had never bothered to ask her, but she suspected it was because he was trying to keep up with all of those women he slept around on her with, but Bridgette would never tell her that. And now, in her late-forties, her daily life consisted of changing diapers, making bottles, cooking three meals a day and opening her legs wide anytime her husband wanted her to.

Bridgette found it to be a travesty because Yvette was a smart woman who’d graduated with high honors from Duke University and had plans of becoming a doctor, until she met Vincent. Then, her dreams of stethoscopes and curing sick patients disappeared like the slim waistline she once had. All she did now,

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