The Next Wife novel Chapter 21

Fred was really frustrated with everything. Dave and Jayda were mostly doing things together and it was making him feel left out.

"Why don't we get this two-in-one chocolate. It's just enough for both of us, like we used to back then." Dave suggested, smiling.

"Wow! So this thing still exists?" She was surprised. They used to buy it when they were teenagers and broke the conjoined chocolates.

Dave bought it then divided the conjoined chocolates, giving a stick of one of them to Jayda and the other for himself.

They both ate it. Fred gawked at them. They totally forgot his presence.

"Are you kidding me?" He muttered to himself.

"Let's dance." Dave held Jayda's hand and dragged her to a dance section where fast music was being played. Fred rushed there as fast as he could.

They started dancing to the music as they held each other's hands.

Fred gasped when Dave held Jayda's waist, according to the dance.

Fred angrily hit his hand away from Jayda then held Jayda's wrist tightly.

"What's wrong with you, man?" Dave yelped in pain.

"Fred!" Jayda frowned. "What the hell was that for?"

"Didn't you see how he held your waist?" Fred frowned harder.

"So? That's what the dance is all about. Can't you see everyone else doing that?" She indicated for him to look around then at the people that were dancing to the song.

"But–" Fred started but she cut him off.

"Let's just watch a movie then head home." She said to Dave.

Fred suddenly felt like he had done something stupid as he sheepishly followed behind them.

They sat on the third row with Jayda in between both men.

Dave was fiddling with Jayda's long fingernails. He really loved her fingernails so he was so used to fiddling with them every time they were together but it was annoying to Fred.

Jayda rested her head on Dave's shoulder unconsciously but she was too tired to raise her head back up.

"Jayda!" Fred shouted then she flinched, raising her head then glared at him.

A few people that wanted to enjoy the movie without noise warned him to lower his voice.

"What is with you? You're acting all grumpy and it's really annoying. Can't we just enjoy the movie in peace?" She complained.

Dave held her shoulders then tickled her. She was warned by people when she laughed so hard, causing a noise.

Fred was totally pissed off. "So you find this funny?" He hissed. How could Dave be tickling his wife? He didn't like how things were going.

"Jayda, this movie is boring, let's leave." Dave admitted.

"It's not boring but I'm not interested in watching it so I agree with you." She affirmed.

They both stood to leave, leaving Fred.

Fred was so angry so he stayed to watch the movie for a while to ease his anger.

She panted, trying her best to catch her breath.

"Fuck you, losers." She yelled when they were completely gone, raising her middle finger to express the 'f' word.

When the coast was clear, she came out of her hiding spot, taking off her big heavy jacket then held it to hang loosely, touching the ground as she shambled home.

Mina now lived in a very small house. She lived with an old woman before but the old woman passed away so she was alone in the very dark, dirty and ugly house.

Mina sat back to look at her life and calculated all that she had left which equated nothing. She started to scatter everywhere, searching for her gold or what she could sell but there was nothing. She had sold them all already.

Mina was into gambling. She gambled with everything she had left. She had sold all the things she could accumulate from Fred's wealth and used it on useless things. When she was going bankrupt, she borrowed money from people to continue her gambling.

The men that were chasing her, she had borrowed money from them and they needed their money back but she couldn't give them because she was penniless. She remembered when she was still married to Fred, she easily asked him for it but when he didn't give her because she had demanded too much, she stole from him or she managed to get into a wrong deal with some of his business partners, acting like she was from him then didn't do anything and Fred had to pay for her sake. She did that a lot when the money was too much for her to ask from Fred.

"What a great time?" She chuckled at how crazy she had been.

She started kicking and throwing different things when the realization of the fact that she had nothing struck on her.

"Fred, honey, how could you have done something like this to me." She cried.

"Thanks a lot for making my life miserable by sending me off." She yelled, talking to no one but she knew her words were meant for Fred.

"I can't continue this. Fred, be prepared for me, I'm coming back for you." She laughed evilly. "You got married to some stupid Jayda who you had cheated on me with then you had the nerves to marry her." She shook her head.

Mina knew that Fred had a one night stand with Jayda but she didn't care because it was a mistake, unlike her. She also slept around with men for different purposes. She was just never satisfied and she knew that.

"Whether or not you like it, I'll come back to your lives, with everything I have in my power to do." She laughed.