Choked devoured 3, p.7
Choked (Devoured #3), page 7
“What happened?”
“I was attacked.”
“Attacked?” His voice was suddenly alert. “Are you okay?”
“I’ve been better. I got knocked out though, and my head hurts.”
“Your mother and I will be there as soon as we can.”
“I’m scared, dad,” Julianna told the dial tone. “I’m scared.”
Kirk
Kirk knocked on the door and waited. Dee Dee Henry opened it a few moments later and shrank when she saw him.
“Kirk.”
“How about today? Will she see me yet?”
Dee Dee shook her head. “I don’t think she wants to see you today either.”
“But it’s been two weeks! I’m begging you Dee Dee. Please.”
Ed Henry appeared behind his wife. “You can’t keep coming here and disturbing us every day like this, Kirk. Don’t you think you’ve done enough to upset Madeline without stalking her like this?”
“Stalking her!” Kirk pulled his hair. “She’s my wife!”
“Maybe you should’ve appreciated that fact sooner.” Ed walked away.
Kirk put his hands in front of him. “Dee Dee, c’mon. You know I deserve a chance to explain myself.”
“I don’t know anything, Kirk. There are only two people that can tell you where to go, and the one that’s here doesn’t want to see you. Sorry.” Dee Dee started to close the door.
Kirk stopped the door with his hand. “I won’t leave until she sees me.”
“Then you can sit in the car like yesterday, Kirk. There’s nothing I can do.”
After Dee Dee closed the door, Kirk sat on the porch steps. He turned when he heard it reopen.
“Get off my porch,” Ed said before shutting the door again.
Kirk stood up and went to sit in his car. He leaned his head against the headrest and closed his eyes. Dear God, just give me a chance to talk to her.
He didn’t bother asking for the right words to come, though. Because he knew there weren’t any. All he could do was hope that Madeline would find it in her heart to forgive him because he was lost without her.
Suddenly, the front door opened and Madeline stepped out onto the porch.
At first Kirk thought he was imagining things, but after a few blinks he realized it was her and jumped out of the car.
“Madeline!” He ran up to her so happy he thought he might cry.
She crossed her arms when he approached and took a step back when he tried to hug her. “You look like crap.”
Kirk swallowed. “I’ve been waiting to talk to you for two weeks.”
Madeline made a face like she had a bad taste in her mouth.
“Can we talk?” He gestured to the front step.
“Not here. Let’s talk in the car. My parents have heard enough.”
Madeline’s apparent repulsion only increased when she saw the inside of the car. There were crumpled fast food bags on the floor and even a greasy pizza box on the back seat. She sat down on the edge of the seat.
“Look, Kirk. You can’t keep coming here. I don’t want to see you, and it’s upsetting my parents.”
“Madeline, please come home. You’re my wife. I-”
“I was your wife, Kirk, but I’m not anymore.” She kept her arms crossed and one foot on the ground outside the car. “I don’t even know who you are. What I do know is that you’re not the man I married. You’re not the man I’m going to spend my life with. And you’re not the man I’m going to raise my baby with. So really, there’s no reason for me to see you anymore.”
“I know I made a mistake, Madeline. I know I don’t deserve you-”
“Well we agree on those things.”
“But I love you and I’m sorry and I’ll do anything to make it up to you.”
“Too little too late I’m afraid.”
“You’re the best thing in my whole life.”
“Turns out that doesn’t count for much.”
“But I don’t know what I’ll do if I lose you-”
“I guess you should have thought about that before you started screwing your student.”
“But I never loved her. It was just sex. It didn’t mean anything. And I didn’t know she was crazy.”
“Were you ever going to tell me Kirk? Are you really sorry or are you just sorry you got caught?”
“I’m really sorry. I’ve never been so sorry in my whole life. Honestly, I wish I could take it back. I hate myself for doing this to you.”
Madeline pursed her lips. “Yeah. I really want to believe you because it would probably make me feel a little better.”
Kirk rubbed the corner of his eye with the heel of his hand.
“Unfortunately, you’re obviously so comfortable lying to my face over and over again that even if I believed you, I’d be a fool to accept your apology.”
Kirk rested an elbow in the bottom of the steering wheel. “I’ll do anything, Madeline. Just tell me what you want me to do.”
“Anything I want?”
“Anything. Anything to make it up to you.”
“I’ll tell you exactly what I want Kirk.”
He raised his eyebrows and held his breath.
“I want you to sign the papers when you get them, I want you to leave me and my family alone, and I never want to hear from you again. If you care about me at all, you’ll give me a chance to start over.”
Kirk shook his head. “No. I love you too much. And I’m not a bad person. I just made a mistake.”
“Tell it to the judge.”
“I have a right to see my son, Madeline.”
“No. You had a right to see your son before you became a despicable person, but I’m sure you’d agree that there’s no benefit to him being around you now.”
“The boy will want to know who his father is.”
“Well don’t worry.” She stepped out of the car. “I won’t tell him the truth.”
“This conversation isn’t over.”
“You have something else to say?”
Kirk stood up and spoke over the hood of the car. “Don’t you still have feelings for me? Don’t you want to work through this and give me another chance?”
Madeline walked around the front of the car. “If you’re wondering whether I’m heartbroken, the answer is yes, of course I am. I’ve never hurt so badly or felt so sick in my whole life.”
Kirk stepped to the side and closed his door so there was nothing between them.
“The only thing I can imagine that would be more devastating would be if I wasted any more of my love or my life on you.”
“No,” Kirk’s voice cracked. “Don’t do this.”
And without another word, Madeline walked back up the driveway and out of Kirk’s life forever.
Epilogue
I didn’t mind it here at Brayside when I first arrived. I was having kinkier sex with the other patients than I’ve ever had before. I thought it was hot, being trapped in a building with a bunch of people already strapped to their beds. It was better than any summer camp I could imagine.
But then they told me fucking other patients isn’t allowed, like we shouldn’t have the same basic human rights here that we would have on the outside. Which is bullshit. Now they keep me so medicated I have to fiddle myself silly just to get to sleep.
Some days I think about Kirk and what his life is like without me. Less exciting no doubt. I wonder what lies he told his wife and if she took him back in the end. But it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that he was inside me. Is inside me. And he always will be.
And I know he misses me. In fact, just the other day he came to visit. Well, he didn’t come all the way inside. I saw him from the window. I watched him walk through the parking lot. He made it all the way to the door this time.
I get why he didn’t come in. Before him, I didn’t know how crazy love could be either. But of all the drugs I’ve tried since I’ve been in this place, nothing’s compared to our love. It was pure, clean, and the effects were long lasting. Nothing ever got me higher.
I know he’ll be back. And when he comes I’ll be ready and waiting. I can’t wait to see his face when he discovers I’m not wearing any underwear under my tunic. Because I’m not allowed. Because they think I’m dangerous. And they’re right.
And I have to admit that on some level it feels good to finally get the respect that I deserve.
No one will ever underestimate me again.
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