Page 12 of Ugly Duckling
Degloved.
That sounded bad.
“Where is her asshole husband, anyway?” Rocky snarled.
“He didn’t want to come. He felt bad,” Mom replied acerbically.
“He fucking should,” Rocky snarled.
“She told him point blank not to shove her face into that cake, too.”
I had.
“I hate him,” Rocky hissed.
Join the club.
Six months later
I gave it the good ol’ college try.
I had my face reconstructed, and all of a sudden, people liked me—especially my husband.
But apparently not enough to keep him from straying.
I’d stood by him through a lot.
The first month of our marriage I had to recover from the multiple facial surgeries that he’d caused me to need.
The second month, he’d told me he wanted to have babies. And since we both knew that he had fertility problems, we’d started seeing a fertility doctor to find out what our best options were.
The third month, he’d started acting weird, and I’d gotten an infection in my face that had caused me to need yet another surgery.
The fourth month, we’d harvested his sperm—all the sperm that he would ever be able to get, because we found out he had testicular cancer.
The fifth month, he’d had his testicles removed and I’d stuck by his side.
The sixth month, and the month that I called it quits, was the month I’d caught him cheating on me with his nurse.
Which led me to now.
“She can have all the fertilized eggs and leftover sperm.” Jackson’s eyes were lit with an inner fire. “Not like she’s ever going to find a man.”
I narrowed my eyes. “Okay, we will write that down. Anything else that you absolutely do want?”
We were in the middle of mediation.
We were deciding who got what.
Apparently, I got nothing but his sperm.
But that was fine.
He could keep his house and his cars. I could keep my credit because he was keeping all of his bullshit debt, at least there was that.
“What else do you want?” the lawyer who was performing the mediation asked.
“I just want what I came into the marriage with,” I said. “I’ll keep my RV. I’ll keep the land that I own in Dallas as well. I just want to make sure that none of his debt that he accrued before our marriage will be transferred to me.”
