“I can’t believe he didn’t tell me,” she frowned again hitting play. It was clear to see they were lovers from the video. They were going hot and heavy with the kissing.
“Two of Dad’s sisters called.”
“No.” she groaned and dropped her own head to the table with a thud. “Why?”
“Because this girl basically called you a homewrecker and the entire family has been backing you against your sister who was well and truly a homewrecker!”
“Who do I call first?” she asked quietly.
“Call Granny Wilson” Meredith suggested. “She’ll get the word out faster than anyone you did nothing wrong.”
She wanted to call Isaias and ask him why he didn’t warn her this video had posted. He was tagged in it. Surely his PR team knew it was up. It still hadn’t been taken down. The comments were in the hundreds of thousands.
She dialed out to her father’s mother. The woman picked up on the first ring. She left it on speaker.
“Liesl, who is he?” Her grandmother’s gravelly voice and the exhale of the cigarette she was smoking made Liesl cringe. The woman was angry if she was smoking.
“He’s a man I met a short while ago. His name is Isaias. I like him a lot. He took me to New York for a date. A girl he was with one time three years ago has been clinging to the hope he’ll go out with her again. She cornered me in the bathroom of the club and tried to hit me. The club owner is Isaias’ cousin and because she tried to hit me, he banned her from the club. To get back at me, she posted this bullshit story. They weren’t a couple. Not ever. If you do an internet search on him, you’ll know they aren’t. She’s just some blonde bimbo who got her panties twisted because he rejected her years ago.”
“She tried to hit you?”
“Yes.”
“Did you deck her?”
“No, but I’m really regretting not hitting her now.”
“Liesl, you’re confident they weren’t together?”
“A hundred percent. Even one of her own friends in the bathroom confirmed it. She threatened to ruin me and looks like she made good on her threat.”
“This isn’t the eighteen hundreds, Liesl. You’re not ruined. Now, if he’d had his penis out, I might think it more scandalous.”
“Granny!” Fred reprimanded her.
“I’ll call your aunts and we’ll get the word out. Do me a favor and avoid your mother and Sandy. Sandy told the entire family you did this as a way to get the spotlight off the miracle of her baby because you’re so jealous of her.”
“Jesus Christ,” Liesl groaned.
“She’s a load your mother should have swallowed. I find it hard to stomach the fact she is my granddaughter. She needs a mental health evaluation and a padded room.”
Meredith’s “Amen” made Liesl and Fred shake their heads at her. It was never a good idea to encourage Granny.
Granny feeling appropriately supported, double downed with her next comment, “I know I’m supposed to love all my grandchildren the same but Sandy’s evil incarnate. The baby she’s having with your husband is doomed with parents like them. He’s going to grow up a narcissistic, cold hearted beady-eyed little bastard.”
“Okay,” Liesl made wide eyes at Fred who was covering his mouth trying not to laugh. “Granny, I’m going to go. I would really appreciate if you could get the word out how I’m not a homewrecking whore.”
“Done. Don’t worry your pretty head about it. I want something in return.”
“Sure.”
“I want a portrait done of me. I saw the one you did of yourself from the photos on the gallery site. I know you could do a good one of me.”
“Absolutely. I’d love to paint you Granny.”
“Nude. I want it nude. I’ll hang it in the dining room.”
Fred made a horrified gasp as he rubbed his eyes and Meredith looked ready to vomit. Liesl fought not to laugh at her grandmother’s scandalous request.
“Granny, I would be honored to paint you.”
“Good. I’ll talk to you later. I love you Liesl. You too Freddy.” The sound of her pulling a deep drag of her cigarette before she hung up taunted them.
“I feel you’re being punished by her.”
“Are you kidding? I’d love to paint her.”
“Nude?”
“Why not? The human body is beautiful. Her body housed all her children and has been on the planet for seventy years. She’s still a gorgeous woman. I think it would be exciting for her.”
“You’re going to do it?” Meredith sneered with her lips pulled back so far, her molars were showing. She shuddered. “I’d rather die.”
“I am, if it’s what she wants.” Liesl sighed and stared at her phone. Granny would have the entire family sorted by morning and she knew it, but the rest of the world did not cater to the Wilson family.
Fred rubbed her shoulder softly, “I’m sorry I yelled at you.”
“Not your fault. I can’t believe he didn’t give me the head’s up.” She sighed sadly, “he was on his phone a lot during the flight back. He had to know.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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