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and all her shit
right now as is my right. What’s it gonna be?”
    She puffed up
like a game hen but all the rage in the world wasn’t going to alter my course.
She made the choice a long time ago to part ways, unless she thought I was dumb
enough to fuck her after I found out she was cheating on me. I’m sure there’re
some men who forgive and forget that shit but I wasn’t one of them and she
should’ve known that shit.
      She’d tried many times to convince me
that she’d only done it to get a rise out of me, to get me to love her like I
had in the beginning. How the fuck that shit played out in her head was a
mystery. Since the divorce she’s been making fucked up decision after fucked up
decision, but nothing yet that constituted me taking her child away from her.
But we both knew if she pushed me too far that shit was a done deal.
    Now she was
turning on the waterworks, it never failed. When her rages and accusations
didn’t work she resorted to the oldest female trick in the book. Too bad for
her, that shit meant nothing to me. Now the other one was losing her fucking
mind too. I looked back over my shoulder at the blaring of the car horn. Lily
was looking dead at me with her ‘I’m not in the mood’ face on. What the fuck? I
glared her ass into submission and she eased up off the horn.
    Turning back
to Deanna I eased her out of the way and went in search of Holly. “Lil bit
where you at?” she came running and yelling for me from the back, where it
looked like she’d been rolling in the mud. I couldn’t hold back the grin that
broke across my face. Nothing in the world meant more than this little bundle
of energy. She started talking as soon as I picked her up and kissed her little
cheek. My heart melted when she hugged my neck and laid her head on my
shoulder. “Daddy.”
    I headed for
her bathroom to clean her up while she regaled me with tales of her adventures
in the backyard with the new poodle I’d bought her. Her mother had bitched
about the extra work when I bought the dog a couple weeks ago but that shit had
gone in one ear and out the other. It was because of her that I couldn’t be
here for my kid twenty four seven so whatever I had to do to make up for that
shit she’d just have to suck it the fuck up.
    Deanna
followed us around the house as I changed her clothes and showed my daughter how
to lace up her shoes like a big girl. I could feel the anger coming off of her
in waves but she knew well enough to keep that shit in check around my child. I
pretended that her ass wasn’t there because really, what was there to say?

 
    We made it out
of the house without incident and it only took me five minutes to talk Holly
into leaving her pet home. The two girls started gabbing at each other and I
felt myself settle. Holly might be too young to understand the significance of
her father buying another woman a ring but I wanted her there. She was a part
of all the important things in my life and this was no different.
      One of the things I loved so much about
Lily was the way she accepted that fact and seemed to appreciate it herself . She knew that as much as I loved her, that little
girl held a special place in my heart that no one else would ever reach.
    “I have a great idea, why don’t we
get Holly a cute little ring of her own?”
    Huh?
    “That way she doesn’t feel left out.”
    “You want me to buy my three year old daughter a diamond
ring?”
    “No silly, they make rings for little girls too you know. I
just thought it would be fun and she can feel like part of what we’re doing
today.”
    “That might actually be a good
idea.” This way we can undermine any sabotage Deanna might have in mind. She
has been known in the past to pull some shady shit to try to make Holly hate
Lily. I never want to go through that fucking headache again.
    It wasn’t easy
trying to convince your baby daughter that daddy loved her more than anything
when someone else that she trusted had