The Second Wife by Melinda Mulera (book club reads .txt) 📗

Chapter 49: Linda Tantrum

My eyes couldn't help but look around the place, looking at the distance families and small couples all around the small restaurant, outside. Avery, on the meantime, was staring down at his phone, hardly saying a word as Linda stuffed some scoops of ice cream into her mouth, clearly in anger.

Wasn't he going to say something?

"You must be hungry..." I squirreled as I glanced at Linda who shot me a terrifying glance, as though telling me to shut up.

"I highly doubt a man who spends most of his attention on his phone would even check to see if his kid is either baking itself in the oven with the dinner turkey, or handing from the neck in bedsheets on it's own cage." Linda said out as she glanced down at her plate with raised brows and an odd expression, as though trying to prove a point. Avery, being the one targeted, eventually looked up from his phone and glanced towards her.

"I'm just sorting out my schedule, I don't have a secretary you know." He rolled his eyes and I glanced at him in shock.

I forgot about my job!

"I'm sorry I should have-"

"It's fine, love." He smiled as he glanced towards me. "Just concentrate on our baby."

"You mean Hazel's baby?" Linda corrected with a certain strain in her voice. I glanced towards her with raised brows.

"It could be mine-"

"But it's not." Linda deadpanned with thinned out lips, making me slightly uncomfortable as I glanced towards Avery who seemed to have been slightly irritated. "It's Hazel's baby, even if you try to say it through your mouth, you know Iris will never be yours. She's carrying Hazel's blood, that's pretty obvious. You have no place to stand." She said without any efforts of holding back against her own boss. The look in her eyes was challenging and did not seem to feel inferior. They seemed dominant over Avery's shocked gaze. He looked overly irritated and knowing Avery this far, he would spit out some pretty crappy nonsense.

"What makes you think I don't deserve her?" He asked as he stared right at her while she stared back. "What makes you think Hazel has to have her and not me, what's so special about him?"

"So what's so special about you?" She asked him instead. He clenched his jaw as he glanced towards me for a brief moment before glancing back towards her.

"The special thing about me is that I make Iris more happier that Hazel." He smirked at her, making her cringe in the process. "She's more attracted to me, she loves me and I love her back. Hazel only came after. The only mistake I did was to push Iris away which gave Hazel the greenlight. Are you angry because Hazel came in second or because I pushed her away?"

"I'm not mad about any of that." Linda cleared her throat as she leaned onto the table. "The reason I don't like you, is because you kept on playing with her. How could you do that to her and claim you even love her?"

"I was trying to convince-"

"Bullsh*t!" She hissed as she smashed the table, nearly throwing off the glass bowl still holding her ice cream in front of her. "Convince yourself you don't love her? That's a pretty stupid brain you have there, how on earth can a sh*tty a** person like you even own a company!" She yelled out, causing countless eyes to glance our way in wonder.

"Linda!" I hissed in embarrassment as I glanced at her. "Don't forger he's your boss-"

"Fvck that!" She snapped as she shot me a glare to keep quiet. "I don't care whether you're my boss. But just you know, if I have to kill someone for Iris, I wouldn't care who it was. Iris hadn't gone through all these things before and you were not supposed to be the first she has to meet. Hazel was perfect for her because he treated her like... Like she was fragile. While you? You slept with her decided to hurt her more when you slept off with very freaking skirt you see walk by. She CAN'T be with you because you'll end up hurting her. She can't be a single mother just like her own mother. I want her to know what loving someone and being loved back really means." She was tearing up as she frantically tried to rub her teats away and sound angry.

Linda is really the only one who'd ever stood by my side since forever.

She really is a best friend.

"I love her too." Avery said quietly. "She makes my heart feel different things and I can't just walk away from that. I want to feel it too. I don't hurt her. I promised to even marry her if the baby is mine."

"Well I hope it's not because I really don't trust you at all." She sniffed a couple if times as she finally stopped tearing up. "You don't know the hell she went through and the choices she had to make to get here and still manage to look you in the eye or even walk into the same building as you. If I were her I would give up and walk away.  She's really stubborn even after all I've told her." She glared at me to which I smiled to as she weakly smiled back. "She's really annoying sometimes, but I love her. If I was lesbian I would have taken her away and marry her." She chuckled out to which I slightly giggled to.

"She has that about her. The charm for people not to let go." Avery said, drawing my eyes to him. "But I still love her, no matter what you say won't chance how I feel about her. I made her go through hell, with my... Stupid way, so I can't stop now. I'll show her that I really mean it when I say I'm in love with her."

"If you're bluffing I'll expose you and try hard to being your company down." She threatened with a small chuckle as she fully dried her eyes. "Anything I should know about you, Avery?" She asked as she crosses her arms on her chest. "Anything I need to know that could hurt her. Any secrets. If I find out I will take Iris and you won't see her again. I swear, my parents have been dying to see me and are pretty wealthy to keep two grown women for nine months." She warned with thin lips. I glanced towards Avery, wondering if he would tell her about his marriage.

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