Revenge After Divorce (Olivia and Nick) novel Chapter 359

MARCUS

I sat there and watched my wife. From the first moment we arrived at the restaurant, and she saw the guys to the moment that woman arrived. When she saw the guys, she had been disappointed, she wanted the celebration to be just us.

I got that but I didn’t want them coming to our home, I had promised they could see Samuel after three months of therapy. I had been watching them, keeping tabs on them and making sure they were going.

They never missed a session, and I had to keep my word as well and let them see the Samuel. My wife didn’t like that especially because I didn’t tell her they would be there. I was going to fix that when we got home.

Then when that woman came and joined us then Ethan introduced her his girlfriend. I could see the fear in her eyes. My wife had been through so much that she was now weary of everyone. Both men and women had hurt her, badly and now she didn’t trust anyone.

Then Ethan said those things, I didn’t know what he was thinking, I didn’t know what he wanted from my wife. But I hated it, he was making her someone people could hate, they were using her as a shield once again and I was not going to tolerate that.

He could see that I didn’t like it. “She is one of the good ones, we can trust her.” Nick said, as if I were just going to accept that. “You of all people know who we are and what happened in the past when we brought new people into our circle. No offense to you Emily.”

She looked so uncomfortable but that was just the beginning, when Luke met her, he was going to grill her, put the fear of God into her and make her understand that if she ever crossed a line then she was good as dead.

“I get that Marcus, but we did due diligence, we wouldn’t have brought her here if we didn’t trust her.” Nick tried to reason with me. “We trusted Jennifer as well and look where that got us, am not repeating the mistakes of the past.”

I turned to the woman. “You are not allowed in my home or anywhere near my kids. Break that rule and you will see a side of me you wont like.” She started shaking like a leaf where she sat. kept looking in the direction where Ethan and Olivia disappeared to.

“Emily, remember, we warned you about this. The family has been through a lot and if you want to be part of it then you will have to prove yourself.”

He looked up at me, I was looking at her dead in the eyes. She looked as if she were going to cry. “Hey Samuel, go look for mommy, she went that way.” The restaurant was empty with only us around. I didn’t worry about him getting lost.