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What in the name of Taylor Swift was going on here?
“Hey, don’t kill the messenger.” “Well, don’t stand so fucking close, then.”
“You’re not a trophy wife, sweetheart. More like a punishment fiancée.”
“Excuse me?” I was on the verge of gutting him with my daughter’s lice comb. “Taking care of sick kids is a woman’s territory. Men don’t have these kinds of…I dunno, maternal instincts or whatever. I did the best I could in the given situation. It’s civilization, baby. Mother Nature. We’re meant to hunt, not clean rice and chicken nuggets off the floor.”
He was scrubbing off the remainder of the vomit on the couch, but everything else was squeaky clean and back in order. For the millionth time, I thanked God for creating Rhyland Coltridge.
You have needs too. You have a life. Dreams. Don’t tell me you forgot about them, because I won’t buy it. You’re still a dreamer. You’ve always been a dreamer.”
Because Taylor was right. The high really was worth the pain.
I cursed in seven languages, even though I was only fluent in one,
Suddenly, I was claustrophobic. I wanted out of here. To claw my way out of this flying airplane, to hurl myself into sure death, to run away from my own consciousness to avoid the consequences of what just happened here.
But losing Dylan was un-fucking-fathomable.
It had hurt, but it hadn’t burned.
Ours was never meant to be a love story, only a cautionary tale.
“I’ll drive you crazy,” she hedged. “I’m already mad about you.”