Chapter Nine Collin The day I learned I was going to be a father should’ve been the happiest day of my life. Only it wasn’t, because my frigid wife had let her doctor give her her first o****m. I poured another shot of whisky down my throat before getting off the barstool. “That’s it. I’m going to show her.” As I drove out of the parking lot, I took a left instead of the right that would take me back to the ranch and back to my wife. I didn’t want to see her yet. I was still too angry. So I drove to Hilda’s. I’d bought her a small house, still on the wrong side of town. If I’d put her up in a house on the right side of town, people would’ve started asking questions. Not only was the house on the wrong side of town, but it was out of the city limits too. The driveway had huge salt ced

