Chapter 17
396 Words
“That’s right, Regina! I’m alive!” Parker said to a still-shocked Regina, who was being comforted by Jaden.
“B-b-b-ut why?”
“I had a suspicion you were cheating, and I needed proof!”
“I never cheated!” Regina said, defending herself.
“You were different!” Parker berated. “You were always missing our dates!”
“I was studying!”
“At the beach! Drinking strawberry wine with this creep!”
“We were friends!” Regina shot out. “And why did you and your mother need to fake your death to proof I was cheating!”
“We wanted to teach you a lesson.”
“Don’t speak for me, Parker!” Geri told her son. “I wanted revenge on you, Regina!”
“Revenge! Why?!”
“I knew you were a gold-digger!”
“A gold-digger!” Regina said, hurt. “I loved Parker!”
“Yeah, right, Regina. You loved me so much; you were stepping out with him!” Parker said, pointing to Jaden.
“I’m sorry you felt you had to go to the trouble to prove I was cheating, Parker.”
“Well, now I know the woman you really are!”
“Just leave you two!’ Jaden said to Parker and Geri. “You’re upsetting my fiancée!”
“Well, you see, Regina, you can’t marry him!”
“And why not?”
“Because you’re married to me?” Parker revealed, to a shocked Regina as well as Geri.
“What?! How?!”
“Remember the trip we took last year?” Parker explained.
“To Paris?” Regina asked confused.
“Yeah! You were drunk from partying too much…drinking too much strawberry wine…no joke!”
“So I was drunk?”
“I was going to r**e you then, but I thought better of it. Instead, I married us!”
“You married us?!”
“Yep.” Parker said proudly. “You were mine, Regina, and no one was taking you from me.”
Regina slapped Parker square in the jaw before leaving her and Jaden’s engagement party.
“Parker, you went too far!” Geri scolded him after Regina, Jaden and their guests left.
“Mom, we had to do more than fake my death.” Parker explained.
“But did you have to marry her?”
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