Sweet Twins novel Chapter 58

However, Jay didn't buy it. He stared at her in suspicion and wondered what she was really up to or hiding.

He made a show of leisurely making his way up the stairs.

Doris tried to wait patiently in the living room but a sense of unease settled heavily in the pit of her stomach.

Almost immediately, she could hear a clamor and Jay shouting angrily from upstairs, "Doris, how dare you? I’ll show you!"

Doris was so scared at the outburst that her hands shot up and hid her face. What did she do that was so wrong?

Did men not like that one? She thought for sure most would.

She had especially thought Jay would of all people. He was a bit of a playboy, after all.

The noise upstairs continued until she saw Jay sprinting down the stairs with the now destroyed doll in his hands.

"Jay, that cost me a good amount of money. If you didn’t want it, you could have just said so and given it back. Why destroy it? You’re too much sometimes," Doris said this with tears threatening to pour down her face at the sight of the mindless destruction.

"Give it back to you? I’d love to. Here! Take it! It’s yours!" Jay threw the now broken doll at her. Then, he grabbed her roughly by the arm, yanking her towards the door. "Get out of this house and go as far away as you can so I never have to look at you again."

His speech was punctuated by the slamming of the door in her face.

Doris stood there, unmoving, on his doorstep for what felt like hours. That whole scene had been such a whirlwind; she could barely process it.

Jay hadn’t seemed at all upset today and now she was here.

Was she really thrown out? All because he was mad at her gift?

Honestly, she was pleased. She found herself thinking she would have done this earlier had she known his reaction.

"Is this not what I have been wanting? I can finally leave,' she thought to herself.

"All right, Jay. I’ll leave if that’s what you want. I still wish you happiness. Good bye," she said out loud. With that, Doris hopped into her second-hand VW Bug and drove away.

"Damn, woman, what the fuck? What must you think of me to think I would want such a gift?" Jay yelled in the empty house. "Unbelievable!" Jay found himself pacing and unable to shake his anger until he finally clicked open an app on his phone and invited a few women to accompany him to the beach.

Fannie was released from jail finally, but she wasn’t thankful to Nancy for it.

"Sure, Nancy may have had me released, but only so that she could require me to make a public apology on TV. She did it on purpose with the sole intention of humiliating me and the entire family," Fannie said, raging. "I hate her." Fannie gritted her teeth and said this with a deep-seated ire. She was dramatic, after all.

"Never mind all that. You’re out. That’s all that matters. All’s well that ends well. Stop doing anything similar again," Clark mumbled.

"You always side with Nancy, Dad," Fannie whined. "Haven’t you noticed that all of our issues have stemmed from her being back? Now, she’s going so far as to take revenge on the entire family. If we continue to let things slide, soon she will own us and our namesake company. Casper and I have worked so hard, and now we could lose it all." Fannie began to cry as she spoke.

"I have to say, I am also worried about the shares of the company that Jade owns." Jill sighed as she admitted this. "Now that she has Charles’ support, Ning’s future is truly uncertain."

"Why can’t you try to make peace with Nancy then, Fannie? She is so soft hearted. I don’t even think it would be difficult," Clark suggested.

It was not until after Clark had gotten sick that he noticed that Jill and Fannie had pulled away from him. He began to also realize that he had turned and done the same to Jade and Nancy. He intended to at least seek forgiveness from Nancy, but his ultimate hopes were that her and Fannie could reconcile as well and it would bridge some of the gaps he had created.