Chapter 7
I have seen a sneak peak that is explosive to say the least, and kudos to Chip Esten once again, incredible acting. I have incorporated the lines here word for word. This is going to be my last chapter before tomorrow's episode "Three's A Crowd." We will all see where that leaves our favorite couple when the dust settles, and I will continue my story.
Rayna finally gets home, and its way past dawn. She comes into the kitchen and Deacon is there. He hasn't slept at all and he is just fit to be tied… Rayna doesn't even have a chance to put her stuff down and grab a cup of coffee. She is so tired. She just wants to go to bed. She doesn't think she has the strength to get into it with Deacon right now. She is trying to think about how to tell him how mortified she was about his behavior earlier at the studio without setting him off. Of course, at that moment, her phone buzzes. It's a text from Markus. She looks down at it and smiles, but shuts off the phone quickly. Deacon doesn't miss that gesture. He really does have a hair trigger temper. She loves him so much, and now that he is going to live and they get to have a life together, she almost forgot about all the stuff that got in the way before, why it took them so long to find their way back to each other. Rayna approaches carefully…
Rayna: So what do you think of Markus' album? Did you get a chance to listen to any of it yet?
Deacon: He is an arrogant son of a bitch!
Rayna: What? Yeah, he's an artist, a little cocky maybe, but that's an exaggeration.
Deacon: He wants to sleep with you.
Rayna: What are you talking about?
Deacon: Oh, come on now Ray, all this time he needs you there, all this text back and forth.
Rayna: All that is work related.
Deacon: Don't kid yourself.
Rayna: Where is this coming from?
Deacon: No guy just texts with some woman that he doesn't want to sleep with. More to the point, some woman that he thinks he might have a pretty good shot at sleepin' with.
Rayna: I beg your pardon?
Deacon: He is outta line.
Rayna: You are outta line.
Deacon: No, he is. I am just waiting to find out when the HELL you are gonna to tell him that!
And with that last comment, Deacon leaves the kitchen and goes straight out the door. Rayna knows he will be gone all day and she is glad. She has no idea what to say to him. This whole thing, she feels just blindsided. Where did all that jealous anger come from? She just wants to go curl up in a ball and cry…..how can he think that she would want to be with anyone else after all they have been through? She's going back and forth between that thought and just being full on pissed off at him! The nerve of him! This is her business and she needs Markus as an artist. Doesn't he get that? Did she really lead Markus on? She is trying to think back on their interactions, starting with the plane ride when she convinced Markus to sign with her. No, it was never sexual, at least she didn't mean it to be. Deacon is completely out of line here. She can't lose him though, she has to fix this somehow, but he won't listen to reason, not in the state he is in right now.
