Chapter 4
SPOV
"Joe, I made dinner." I yelled from the kitchen as I heard the front door open.
"What did you make? Why are you home so early? Didn't Sandy have you working on that big case with her?" Joe asked as he sat down at the kitchen table.
"She left early today. Something about her boyfriend freaking out because the garbage people didn't pick up the garbage and it was her fault because she didn't pay her garbage bill. She tried to blame me, but I told her there were 4 notes on her desk that she needed to pay it." I rolled my eyes, "So I left as soon as she did, went to the store, and cooked some spaghetti and meatballs."
"So you decided not to go to Rangeman? I'm so glad you came to your senses Cupcake. Pass me a plate I'm starving." Joe said as he reached for the plate.
"No I went to Rangeman a little earlier in the day. I signed the contract Joe, I'm waiting on a start date after Ranger goes over my paperwork. I'm going to give my notice to Sandy then." I said through gritted teeth as I passed Joe his plate.
"Are you really going through with this? That whole company is made up of men who are a few fries short of a happy meal. Manoso is the craziest of them all. You're going to regret this, but when you fall flat on your ass with this job maybe you'll actually realize it's time for you to stay home and it's time for us to start a family. The meatballs suck Steph, they need more seasoning. Why don't you go see Grandma Bella and ask her again to teach you how to cook?" Joe said.
"Why don't you go screw yourself Joe! I'm not going to listen to this tonight. I'm actually happy about starting a new job and all you've done is crapped on it since I first told you. I've got a headache, I'm going to lay down in the guest bedroom. Just leave me alone tonight I can't deal with you." I figured it was easier to retreat to the other room than to go into full rhino mode.
"Don't worry about me bothering you, I'm going to go see Mooch and have a few beers. I'll be out of your hair for the rest of the night." Joe said as he slammed the door.
I heard my phone ringing in my purse and reached down to grab it and hit the button without even looking at the caller id.
"What?" I said.
"Stephanie it's Ranger, is it a bad time? I was going over your physical and I needed to go over something with you." Ranger asked.
"What do you need to tell me? That I eat too many sweets, that they're going to kill me? That I need to lay off the junk food because I'm overweight for my height? What could you possibly need to tell me that is that damn important."
"Stephanie please calm down, there is no easy way to tell you this but your blood work came back and it seems that you have an STD. You need to either see a doctor to get an antibiotic or you can come see Bobby and he can do the same thing for you. Either way you need to get this taken care of before it leads to long term problems."
"A WHAT? That lying, cheating, low life, scum sucking, piece of monkey crap. I'm going to kill him. I'm going to chop his infected, cheating dick off and shove it straight up his ass." I am pacing back and forth in the kitchen still screaming profanities when Ranger cut me off.
"Babe you're getting kind of scary there. Come out to Haywood and we'll get you taken care of. Bobby is still here on site." Ranger said.
"I'll be there in a few minutes, let me put away the dinner that I made that my husband just told me sucked and then I'll be on my way." I hung up and started busying myself with cleaning up the kitchen when I realized I had just hung up on Ranger.
Thirty minutes later I pulled into Haywood and fobbed my way to the 3rd floor where Bobby's office is. I knocked on the door and told him Ranger told me to come by. Bobby explained everything to me and gave me a bottle of antibiotics, he said everything should be cleared up after 10 days and that he would run some more blood work to make sure at that time. I didn't know what to say at that point so I thanked Bobby and leaned down to give him a hug.
Next I headed to the 5th floor for Ranger's office and knocked on the door. He yelled at me to come in.
"Ranger I'm sorry that I went off like that. I shouldn't have yelled at you when you were trying to help me and I shouldn't have hung up on you." I said as I blushed.
"No worries Babe. I must admit I've been in the military for a number of years and I honestly don't think I've ever heard anyone spew out such colorful language with such ease. I just hope your husband wasn't anywhere around when you found out, I think you would have killed him."
"What am I suppose to do now? We've been married for 5 years. It's hard to let go of something like that, but I can't stay with him." I said as I chewed on my lip.
"Well, what do you want to do Babe? I will do anything I can do to help."
"I want revenge. That bastard deserves it."
"Okay, how do you want to do it Babe? This is your show you make the calls"
"I want slow and painful revenge, I want to make him pay for everything he's done to me."
**What type of revenge should Steph seek? Please review and let me know!