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“Yes! Now go away!”
“I’m not leaving.”
“Have you noticed in the brief time we’ve known each other – every time you were on opposite sides of the door… YOU MAKE ME CRY!” she sobbed. “You are hurting me, and this isn’t what marriage is supposed to be.”
“I’m an idiot…”
“Yes, you really are sometimes, and I wish that the part of you that was wonderful could come around a little more often.”
“You think part of me is wonderful? Which part?”
“Not that part!” she snapped and heard his nervous laugh. “It’s not funny!”
“Kitten, what part of me is wonderful?”
“When you open up and focus more on how you feel…”
“I assure you I was focusing on how things felt a few moments ago.”
“Precisely my point – and this conversation is done.”
“No, it’s not.”
“Go to your brother’s or go sleep somewhere else… I want to be alone.”
“WHAT?”
“I didn’t marry you because I just wanted to fool around – and that’s the part you cannot understand. You talked to me about becoming friends, waiting, and having things grow between us…”
“It’s growing… well, it was…”
“Oh my gosh – GO AWAY,” she sobbed, feeling hurt and betrayed, disappointed and disgusted.
“I’m gonna fix this,” Max promised – but those promises were obviously nothing and only a means to an end for him.
“Me too,” she whispered sadly.
CHAPTER 11
INFERNO
“ARE YOU STUPID, STUPID?”
That single statement yelled at him had caused him to wake up almost immediately from where he slept on Reese’s couch last night. Yeah, this was a nightmare. Elana had thrown him out – and Eileen looked utterly furious on her new sister-in-law’s behalf.
“Owww!” Max ducked as Eileen yanked another book off the bookshelf nearby and threw it at his head.
“How are you related to him?!” his sister-in-law was now breathing fire toward his brother, who held up his hands in front of him in an automatic sign of surrender.
“Wait a second… What'd I do that was so wrong? Ouch! That’s why I’m here, you know – not because I want a concussion!”
“You… are… freaking… clueless!” Eileen hollered, pointing at Max – and then turned toward Reese again. “And now I know why it took you five years to finally ask me out. My goodness, ‘Carpenter’ equals ‘Slooooow on the uptake’ apparently.”
“Now wait a second, honey…”
“Are you going to tell him – or am I?”
“Max, you’re making a huge mistake,” Reese began and then looked at him pointedly, waving his head toward Eileen.
