Chapter 38

~Zane

You married someone my age and you don’t want her to act her age and live her life? How despicable! He should have just married his age. But I kept my cool.

“Why are you asking though?” he glanced at me.

“Yeah, I thought we could go to school together,” I said.

“Oh really? It’s good you guys are getting along,”

Yeah. If only you knew how close we were.

“Alright, I’ll check on her before heading to school,” I dropped my fork and stood up when my Dad stopped me.

“I don’t think that’s necessary,” I could see the anxiety, laced with guilt in his eyes. ‘You may get it and I don’t want you transferring it to the whole household,”

“No, I won’t,” I shrugged and was about to walk away but he grabbed my arm.

“I just said I don't want you to see my wife!” he thundered. “She’ll stay in her room till she’s well, Linda will attend to her if she needs anything,”

“Finish your food and hurry to school, I don’t want you missing an important class, you’re going to inherit all this one day and i