She Played Daughter-in-Law on a Pig Farm, So I Took Her Hospital novel · Chapter 5 of 24
Chapter 5: Morven's Couch
Veronica did not tear the paper up on stage.
She folded it very small and put it in her blazer pocket, with two hundred people watching.
Then she leaned toward me, so the microphone would not carry it.
"You have no idea what I can do to you," she said.
"I have some idea," I said. "I've been signing your reports for six years."
Security walked me out through the side door, politely.
Morven was waiting in the parking garage with her arms crossed.
"Where are you sleeping tonight?" she asked.
"I have a house."
"She's in it."
"It's in my name."
"That's a lovely fact," Morven said. "Get in the car."
Her apartment was on the second floor of an old brick building near the lake.
It had one couch, one bookshelf, two plants in coffee cans and a fat gray cat who looked at me and left the room.
"That's Gauze," Morven said. "He doesn't like men. Don't take it personally."
"I don't take things personally anymore."
"Liar," she said, and handed me a blanket. "Last month you apologized to a vending machine."
"It ate my dollar twice."
"And you said sorry."
I sat down on the couch and found I was laughing, a little, for the first time in a week.
She sat on the other end with her feet tucked under her and studied me.
"Okay," she said. "Rules."
"I'm a guest. I thought I was supposed to be given rules."
"These are mine." She counted them on her fingers. "One, you eat dinner. Two, you tell me before you do anything stupid so I can talk you out of it. Three, you are still a married man until a judge says otherwise, so nothing happens in this apartment that I'd be embarrassed to explain to your mother."
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