The Third Wife by Jordan Silver

Damn, and
stop the madness already, you can't get rid of me. If you want to really lose
your husband, keep up the bullshit. Not that I care, I wish he would chuck your
crazy ass somewhere so I don't have to look at you. But hey, we can't always
get what we want, as you have been learning of late." Yes I could be a
mean ass bitch, but I'd had enough of her shit.
    Poor Cody has been
bending over backwards trying to get her into the fold. He spent most of his
evenings talking to her while Arlene and I were with the girls. He took her out
to dinner, as well as Arlene and I, sometimes all of us went out together. But
still nothing was enough for her. She seemed to only be happy when he was
focused solely on her. Good luck with that bitch.
    "I wonder how
you haven't offed Arlene in her sleep by now, with your demented ass. You had a
whole other plan going there though didn't you? Turn her into your own personal Stepford wife." She'd turned red as a cherry at
that and if she could've she would've smacked me one.
    "You're a stupid little whore and you have
no idea what you're talking about. You might have MY husband fooled but you
don't fool me. You're nothing but a tart who thinks to alienate my husband's
affections but I will win in the end."
    "Bitch please, let me know how that works out for you. As to
me being a tart, you might be right there. I do love me some Cody in the
sack." I smirked after saying that shit, it drove her nuts.
    "I wish you'd never come here...."
    "This is news how? Listen I could care less
what you think. This is about the girls' room and since this is Cody's house
and he gave the okay for the change, take your ass somewhere and stop annoying
people." I'd walked off and left her standing there.
    Needless to say Cody had heard a completely
different version of events. And when he had approached me all hot under the
collar, probably after having a hard day at work only to walk through the door
to complaints. I'd given him the finger, told him to fuck off and left his
stunned ass standing in the hallway before heading up to my room to rant at the
walls. He'd followed me a few hours later all sheepish and full of apologies.
I'd listened to him but said not one word to him. That night he had dragged me
from my bed to his just to hold me. I still didn't talk to his ass. If he
wanted to pretend that his second wife wasn't bat shit crazy that was his business.
As for me I would be proceeding with caution.

Chapter 14

 
    Alana

 
    His mothers were
another matter. I never had more spa days and hair salon visits in L.A. And
that was beauty central. These women were hardcore. They knew how to live; and
how to spend money. I was enjoying spending Cody's and he loved it, weird.
Darlene was all kinds of jealous. I had to FaceTime with her for at least an hour each day. At which time she proceeded to talk to
my tummy, another whack job. She had like a hundred names picked out already.
Cody and I were waiting on that though.
    I never had so many
hands on my body in my life. If it wasn't Cody it was the girls, they liked to
talk to whoever was in there too. I rolled my well -fucked ass out of bed
finally as my phone started to ring. Cody had been gone for a few hours
already, but he’d been so thorough this morning I took me that long to get up.
I don’t know how he does it. I know he visits both of them so where does he get
the energy?
    It was the doctor's office calling.
    "Mrs. Jackson, we need you to come in today if you can."
    "What, why, I was just there, is something wrong?" My
hand went right to my stomach as my heart dropped.
    "Oh no, no, nothing like that. The doctor just
wants to go over some things with you that can't be done over the phone. So can
you come in?" The nurse didn't sound nervous or anything so I guess
everything was okay.
    "Sure I'll be
right there." Should I call Cody? I didn't think so, they said it was
nothing maybe I'll wait. I got dressed and left the house for the docs'. He had
them do