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Chance

“I don’t see why you have to take this trip so close to the wedding” I’ve been hearing that sarated on my nerves each time

Everyaround my neck and I wondered, not for the first tiet backed into this corner

Overwork, a don’t-carish attitude, and athe fact that her eldest son had yet to uess “It’s already settled Brittany there’s no point in going over it, over and over again”

I wish she would just leave already and go about her business Maybe go shopping or any one of the other s she does each day to pass the ti around for ain

The one and only tione way overboard I have no proble money on a woman, but I abhor waste And besides, I don’t think I’ve ever felt like she was my woman More like the leash my mother had chosen for me

I wasn’t sure why it was bothering ain I was too busy doing what I love to pay too much attention to my personal life

When hter of one of her old school friends I hadn’t thought anything of it She was nice enough, beautiful, with a good education and great ancestry I ad in love and settling down thing But within three on

I can’t say that I was in love with Brittany, I’d even told her as much, but she said it would come with time I just wasn’t interested I knew at soet ht I wasn’t in any hurry

But uess, because pretty soon Brittany was a regular at the fa with mom