Total pages in book: 120
Estimated words: 109976 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 550(@200wpm)___ 440(@250wpm)___ 367(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 109976 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 550(@200wpm)___ 440(@250wpm)___ 367(@300wpm)
Kev and Dave stood up when they saw us coming and I saw money exchange hands. These fucks!
“I told you he would spaz.” That was Kev to Dave when they saw the bemused look on my face.
They ignored me and congratulated her while we walked out into the sunlight. It was like the world had changed and in that split second I realized that if I was feeling like this then she must have a hell of a lot more going on. I kept telling her once we got back into the car that everything was going to be okay, that she and the baby were going to be fine. And she kept looking at me like I was stupid.
“Why wouldn’t we be?” Huh? Did she forget the asshole ex father in law who was fixated on her ass? “Are you okay?” She looked at me with concern. Uh no, I’m about to pass the fuck out. I nodded and laid my head down on her shoulder while Kev looked back at me as Dave drove.
I was back in tiptop shape by the time we made it back to the villa though and was already making plans in my head. “We have to call my parents.”
“Let’s do video chat. Mom is going to be so happy.”
She rushed ahead of me to get her laptop. She said those words like she’d been calling my mother that her whole life, they just fell from her lips with ease. I don’t think I’ve ever heard her call the ex in laws anything but their given names. Score.
Yes, I’m a petty fuck and the fact that my wife calls my parents mom and dad while she can barely bring herself to mention the ex’s parents fills me with lots of petty glee, sue me.
We set up the video chat and sprang the news on them but that shit set off a chain of events that I had not anticipated. It started when I noticed how sketchy my dad was being in the background after offering congratulations. While the women talked babies like the kid was three years old already with its own identity I kept my eye on him.
I could see the wheels turning but still had no idea what he was up to until later the next day when Kev pulled me aside and showed me something on the computer. The senator’s ex-mistress and her son had just given an exclusive to one of the major news channels. “Oh shit!”
It was absolute chaos. The scandal was the leading story on all news outlets and had blown up on the internet. People were coming out of the woodwork with stories that went back decades. Good ole dad.
It didn’t stop there. By the time I woke up way too early the next morning, leaving her in bed asleep after the first round of morning sickness, there was a hell of a lot more going on.
Kev and Dave were already there in the home office whispering about some shit while they sat in the dark, the only light coming from the computer monitor. “Hey!” That’s all the greeting I got before they went back to what they were doing. I walked over and looked over their shoulders to see what was going on.
“Got it!” Kev stretched his arms over his head and yawned like they’d been at it for hours. “Got what? What’re you freaks doing?” I couldn’t make heads nor tails of what the hell I was looking at. Kev looked pleased with himself so it had to be good.
“I taught Holly a little something before we left. That girl is one smart cookie. Since you know fuck all about tech to make a long story short, I passed her a little device that would allow us to capture every call the senator makes from his cellphone, had them dropped into an audio file and voila. It’s all here.” He pointed to the screen where all I saw were squiggles and shit that meant fuck all.
“And?”
“We’ve got him. I’ll edit it out to make sure there’re no mention of Giselle but this shit is a gold mine. We’ve got him ordering a hit on you, that alone is enough. But the douche is into some other shit that’s sure to make the people of the good U.S. of A. out for blood.”
“Yep, he’s looking at some serious time if this shit pans out. Plus what uncle is doing to him is a thing of beauty.”
“What, what else did he do?”
“Well, apart from getting the senator black listed from almost every social club he belongs to, a lot of very prominent people are now calling in markers.” Dave tapped in some keys for me to see what he was talking about.
“It seems the senator’s wealth isn’t exactly what it used to be. He’s been dipping into taxpayer’s money among other things and a whole host of shit that no one would’ve imagined due to his squeaky clean image. I thought you were scary but fuck, uncle is the master.”