Reality Check Part I
“This is all well and good, but” January lifted her chin, “it changes nothing for me.”
Gulliver looked like she’d kicked him in the balls, again. “What do you mean?”
“I mean, your story is an excuse. You faked a marriage. You lied to me. You cheated on me, or rather you cheated on your
fiancée.”
“I did not cheat!”
“No? Did she have a ring on her finger?”
“Yes. It was required to make it look good.”
“Did
you take her on dates? Dinner? Walks in the park. Strolls on the beach?”
“No. There were several family dinners but no individual dates. She resided in Crete. When I would return to London or go to Greece, we would have a family meal where we would all be present. She did visit New York a handful of times. It was not a love match. Neither of us were desperate to spend time with one another.”
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you kiss her?”
“In front of family to put on the show, yes, I have kissed her.”
“When I slept in your bed as your mistress? Did you kiss her during that time?”
“Again, only for the sake of –”
“Oh, shut the fuck up,” she cut him off. “You walked into this house thinking you had the upper hand because of Kaylee. The thing is, I feel bad for my parents. I’ve uprooted their lives so much over the last eight years. They left everything behind to start over here to support me and Kaylee. I don’t want their lives overturned again.”
“There,” he started to speak.
She cut him off again, “no. You had your chance to speak, now
it’s mine.”
He waved at her with an arrogance as if giving her permission.
Asshole.
She realized she’d muttered the word under her breath and he’d heard it, his eyebrow quirking high in his forehead. “In for a penny,” she thought and then spoke loudly. “You are an asshole and I’m within my rights to call you that. I do feel guilty for disrupting my mother and father’s lives. It’s been unfa to 10:28
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them. They haven’t talked to friends or family in years. So yeah, I feel bad for them. But” she held up a finger, “I don’t feel bad for anything else. I left to protect myself from you and your lying scheming ways. I definitely don’t think you are worthy to be Kaylee’s father. She is better off without a father than having one who treats women, her mother, the way you do.”
“How dare you?” he stared furiously at her.
“You think you’re some fucking gift I’m supposed to just jump up and down in excitement and accept? You’re no gift, no prize, no wondrous thrill for me, Gulliver. You’re a liar. Night after night, day after day, you lied to my face. You,” she gave a strangled sob, “convinced me to give up my birth control because you wanted your wife to have your child. You said that to me on our fake wedding night. You told me now that I was your wife, you wanted a baby in my belly to tie us together. You fucking troll of a human being. You weren’t proving your love to me with that. You were trying to trap me with it.” He blanched at her accusation, and she reveled in it. “If I was pregnant with your kid, then you believed I wouldn’t leave you once I found out the truth. That’s what you were doing. It had nothing to do with wanting us to have a child together. It had nothing to do with our love, our commitment, a desire to raise a family together. It was your way of manipulating me to stay and do as you command because we made a baby.”
She knew she’d hit the nail on the head, and she moved closer to hing and before he could register what she was doing $
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smacked him in the face. Her palm stung with the force of her slap, and he kept his head turned away from her.
“You should be so fucking ashamed of yourself, Gulliver but I know you’re not. You tried to baby trap me with lies and manipulation because you knew, in your gut, you knew, if I found out I would leave but if I had your baby I would be forced to maintain a relationship, and you would have the upper hand. It’s the height of depravity but not so far–fetched from the other crimes I’m sure you’ve committed in the name of family.”
“Gully?” Thisbe asked quietly. “Is she right? Is that why you wanted to have a baby with her? Because it would give you an advantage?”
“Oh, fuck off Thisbe,” January turned to look at the woman she called her best friend. “Don’t come in here playing all high and mighty. You’re no better. You knew he was a lying skeezeball and you stood as my maid of honor and signed off on a fake marriage certificate. You should be equally ashamed of yourself. You knew we weren’t married. You knew we were a lie. Six fucking months of living a lie and you had all the opportunity in the world to tell me the truth. You never did. You don’t get to claim you were going to now, when you had six long months to do so. You were on his side. You were always on his side. I mean blood is thicker than water right?” She watched Thisbe swallow, the hand holding the glass of water trembling and droplets spilling. “You used to tell me how much you’d always wanted a sister and made me believe your lies. You were his pay to make
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me think I was really family. You tricked me too. You knew we were trying to get pregnant, Thisbe. You should have warned me if you really cared for me as a sister. You laid it on thick because you were under orders to play a role. Don’t think I’m stupid for a single minute.”
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