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Good Morning, Everyone,
I am continuing with the Flash Fiction Story, THE SEVENTH CHANCE. I hope you enjoy it.
Bob-Ann stretched and yawned at the same time. She had not slept well. The memory of the broken glass she left on the floor by the entrance to their home, the fact that she hadn’t heard Amato come home, and her pounding headache caused her to sigh heavily. She unwrapped her body, twisted in the bedsheets, glanced at the watch near her bedstand, and decided to go back to sleep.
Amato entered the quiet house. The crystal glass crunched under his shoes. His body tensed.
Where is Bob-Ann? Is she hurt?
Flipping on the lights, he saw the room was in order except for the opened Cabinet and the glass on the floor, glimmering like stars.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
No thief. Now, where is she?
He walked down the hallway to their bedroom and stopped at the door. The chubby brown bundle lay partially covered with the downy feather comforter and one of her thick thighs hanging out.
Amato had seen Lila talking to her and thought nothing of it. A few minutes later, he glanced in Bob-Ann’s direction; he saw neither and assumed Bob-Ann was talking to someone else.
An hour later, he went to find her and bumped into Lila. She informed him she’d asked Bob-Ann to leave because he didn’t want her. Amato thought the red-headed woman who had been his friend since they were kids had lost her mind. He wanted to throttle her. She’d always wanted to marry him, but he had never desired to marry her. Bob-Ann owned his heart.
As Amato stood in the doorway to their bedroom, he imagined Bob-Ann’s conversation with Lila. She’d never learned how to love and accept herself. Taking off his shoes, he walked to the side of the bed and sat down on it.
Bob-Ann awoke at once.
“Do you want to talk about it?”
“Why are you here?” Bob-Ann asked, surprised.
“Have you forgotten you’re my wife, and we live here?”
Shalom shalom,
Pat Garcia
https://patgarciaauthor.com/2025/03/12/the-seventh-chance-by-pat-garcia-3/
So relieved that Amato realized what Lila was trying to do, and didn’t let her get away with it!
I enjoyed this excerpt. Much tension. Especially the part about Lila.
Lila is jealous but I think she’s going to be disappointed. I don’t think she’s going to break them up!
Quite a surprise at the end. 🙂
Oh, how painful!