Excerpt from The Butterfly & the Bull III

Her

I have to laugh. This big man cutting his eyes at us like a little bitch. Well, big bitch in his case. We went to have lunch with MIL and Duke, Zidane’s stepfather, to celebrate Zidane’s most popular book, The Prime Minister’s Wife, being given the greenlight to be made into a movie. While I was in the country recuperating before I regained my memory, a movie producer, a Jamaican who had migrated to the US, had reached out to Zidane, expressing interest in optioning The Prime Minister’s Wife for eighteen months. The eighteen months have passed, and he contacted Zidane a few days ago, and transferred the sum they had agreed on to Zidane’s account. I’m so excited for him. Every single book he has written deserves to be on the big screen. This will open the floodgates. Based on the novel by C. Zidane James will over the coming years be a regular thing. You’ll see. 

Anyway, I saw a ring on Kayleigh’s finger. I guess the clown proposed to her. Imagine marrying a woman that was a groupie to your sworn enemy, the man that changed your wife and took her from you, showing you that you were just a placeholder until he came along. That’s nasty work. I exchange a glance with Zidane as we allow his mom and stepdad to go through the exit before us and he smirks, undoubtedly he had seen it too and is likely thinking the same thing. We get outside and say our goodbyes, and go to our separate vehicles. 

“Mason was looking at us like he wanted to kill us,” I comment as we drive out onto Waterloo Road.

“Wasteman,” Zidane scoffs. “Carrying around all that hate is slowly poisoning his soul. Everybody has moved on yet he’s acting like he’s some victim of ours.” He chuckles and shakes his head. “This whole drama is like something out of one of my books. A man has a whole baby on his wife with her best friend at the time and lies about it for almost two years. The wife cheats on him with her true soulmate and calls out the soulmate’s name during sex. He explodes with rage and batters her, sending her to the hospital. She survives the brutal beating but loses her memory. The law sends him to prison. While there, they get divorced and she regains her memory and gets with her soulmate. The man gets out of prison and is now engaged to said former best friend who is an ex-groupie of his ex-wife’s soulmate, who is now the father of her child and husband-to-be.”

Wow. What a summary. It does sound like one of his novels and guess what, it is. Not just one, but two, soon to be three. I’m his everything, but being his muse is one of my favourite hats to wear.