Housewife Gone Wild

Chapter 11

Yvonne froze. It was the first time she’d ever seen Jared and me fight. Before, whenever we argued, I always gave in first to keep the peace. But today was different. I didn’t apologize or back down.

“Daddy, Mommy, please stop.” Yvonne burst into tears. She clung to Jared’s arm, wiping her eyes. “I don’t want you to fight. Please don’t do this.”

Jared looked at me, his voice cold. “Work isn’t negotiable. You can keep your little hobbies, but you’re not walking away from our family.”

He bent down, lifted Yvonne into his arms, grabbed her tiny backpack, and walked out.

I didn’t shed a single tear. To be honest, I wasn’t even mad. I had seen this coming.

“Mrs. Holcomb, are you okay?” Wendy and Joyce asked, voices worried..

I smiled, “I’m fine. Sorry about the mess–can you clean it up?” Then I grabbed my purse and car keys and left.

I drove around aimlessly, the wind whipping through the open window, lifting my scarf. Behind my sunglasses, my eyes started to burn.

I married a rich guy and lived this shiny. To everyone else, I should’ve been carefree and happy. And maybe I was, once. But I’d got stuck in my head, slowly falling apart.

I thought after that fight, Jared wouldn’t ask me to lunch. But around eleven, while I was sitting in a café, sipping bitter coffee, he texted to ask where I was.

sent it to him. He told me to

touched up my makeup. If Jared wanted to treat me like his arm candy, fine, I’d play the

couldn’t even look me in the eyes. They got all polite, keeping their voices low. Some mumbled “hi,” and

over six feet tall, looking sharp.

Jared. She had on a

was a quarter–million–dollar piece, her necklace worth tens of

at me

into their food. Halfway through the meal, some guy

mistress on the other. The other guys couldn’t help but

was. I smiled, worked the room, and kept up appearances. Guys were checking

lot, a faint flush coloring

1/2

“Mr. Holcomb can’t drink

guy quickly smoothed things over with some glib remarks and

had clout at the company, and everyone treated her with

at me. But I acted like I didn’t catch it. Why bother? I was already done with this marriage. If she wanted that jerk Jared, she could have

off today, her face blank the whole

up, and I got ready to

steady. Suddenly, he leaned into me, his hands