Someone Like You

Part Thirty Four

Chapter Thirty Four

It wasn't so much that Nina stepped back to let the woman in, she was barged out of the way, falling awkwardly hitting the wall heavily.

"THEO? THEO? Why is some slapper opening the door to me?"

When Nina regained her composure, she looked up in time to see Theo appear eyes blazing with anger. "What the hell are you doing barging in here? Sadie, you need to leave."

Pushing past his ex-wife, he came to her, "are you ok?"

Nina nodded, but she watched as Sadie placed her hands on her hips, a scowl on her face. Which was a shame as she was probably the most beautiful woman she'd ever seen, and the scowl took away from that.

So this was Theo's ex wife, Melody's mother.

She'd never felt so inadequate. The woman who had stormed past her wore a designer suit, heels, hair immaculate. Nina glanced at the mirror across the hallway, her hair had the 'thoroughly fucked', fresh from bed look, and she literally only wore a shirt...that barely covered her naked backside.

Theo had followed Sadie who had continued her storm into the lounge, and she stayed for a moment, gathering herself. Taking a deep breath she finally followed them inside.

He was stood in the centre of the room, hands on hips, so obviously struggling to contain his anger, his emotions. Sadie was facing up to him equally angry, and suddenly Nina had a vision of how awful the end of their marriage had been. She felt awkward, an intruder to the whole personal nature of the moment.

"All I want is to see my daughter. MY daughter."

Theo was shaking his head, "no. She's OUR daughter, and when you decided to get stoned off your head in front of her, regardless of her needs...well sorry Sadie, but you blew it. You are not seeing her, not like this."

Sadie looked devastated for a moment, and Nina hated that she was witnessing this, but soon her attitude changed.

"Where is Melody? You are screwing that slut..." she gestured in Nina's direction with a thumb, "whilst my daughter is sleeping. Is that any better than what I did?"

Theo stepped towards her and Nina almost flinched at the intent in his eyes, "she is having a sleep over with her uncle. I would NEVER mix my life and hers. Not on a whim."

Nina gulped awkwardly, everything he said was right, and made sense, but she couldn't deny that she hated being referred to as a whim. As they started a new round of shouts and accusations, Nina sidestepped into the bedroom. She needed distance, personally, but also for Theo's sake, this was far too intimate a moment for her to witness.

Theo noticed Nina disappear, but then his eyes seemed to have a tracking device on her, he hated the worried expression on her face, but then he was also glad that she wasn't there. He couldn't deal with Sadie and do right by her at the same time. If he said the wrong thing he'd hurt her...or inflame his already angry ex-wife. He needed his wits about him, and Nina seemed to have a very damning effect on his sanity. Usually that was a great thing, but now he needed a clear mind.

Striding across the room, he grabbed her arm forcibly, "get out. You have no control over my life, and you no longer have control over Melody's. You are a mess, and this is another in a long line of ridiculous scenarios you've created."

"Get your hands off me, you bastard!"

She wriggled, and he let go, but he pushed her towards the front door, "you have no right to come in here making demands, shouting your mouth off. You're NOTHING to me."