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Eighteen Years Ago

My as going to kill o and I was only noalking out the door I know she’s cooked me dinner, because today she found out the sex of our baby and instead of telling me over the phone, she wanted to telltodamn deal

We were having a baby and I was beyond excited

My cell phone rang

Speak of the devil

Wendy

My gorgeous wife of three months

The woh of

The wonant with my baby

I flicked open my phone “Hey, babe”

“Please tell me you’re on your way home”

“I’m out the door I promise”

“Good, because dinner is almost ready and I want to celebratory-fuck et your sexy ass home now”

I grinned What et “Yes, ma’am”

“Did you get the wine?”

Fuck

Her doctor told her she was allowed one glass of wine to celebrate And in Wendy’s words, she wanted to nier It was her favorite The saht I asked her to marry me Unfortunately, there was only one liquor store in town that sold it, and it was in the opposite direction of the clubhouse

“I’ll get it on the way home”

She growled but she wasn’t angry “The liquor store is in the opposite direction I’ll go You just get your sexy ass hoet back”

It started to rain as I pulled out of the clubhouse parking lot My Harley was being painted, so I was driving the club’s van for the next two days It was rush-hour traffic, and as loom, I made my way out of toard the watermelon fields where Wendy and I lived in a renovated, sixties bungalow Out here the traffic was lighter, but as I approached the water tower on the edge of town, the traffic crawled to a stop

It was raining hard now I wheel It had been almost an hour since I’d told Wendy I’d be hoh the windshield I had a rare forht So, I had to wear dark glasses nearly all the tiiven me eyes the color of arctic ice As a kid, I used to scare all the other kids with s weren’t much different You can see the dread on people’s faces when I relasses and they see h, it scares the men, but it attracts the ladies

I wiped the fog frohts cut into the bad weather This stretch of road was notorious for accidents Especially when it rained And by the look of this one, ere going to be stuck for a while

I reached forWendy to tell her I’d be late, but it went to voicemail A second call did the same