CHAPTER 150

ALEXANDER

“Laura? W-what are you doing here?” Darlene gasped, wheezing as she backed into me, away from the woman, so that I felt my hands automatically come up to hold her protectively.

The sore spot on my head had not stopped throbbing since we left the killer shack in the woods, my mother’s hellish driving putting more thorns in my eyes than the whole situation had given me.

I eyed the woman gingerly, giving her a strained up-and-down look and not bothering with the fake smile my wife was giving her.

“Yes. It's late, you can't just waltz in here whenever the fuck you please miss Diego,” I ground through clenched teeth, and my mother gasped, clutching her bare neck and looking as scandalized as a church maiden who had suddenly gotten been asked to go up to the pope’s room.

“Alexander McKenzie! That is why no way to speak to a woman!” My mother shrieked, her voice hard and icy as I watched the smile drop from Laura’s face before jerking back into place when my mother spoke.

My wife’s