Derrick's face suddenly contorted into a mask of anger as he pointed at both his relatives. "I AM uniting with her. She was made for me literally. She...has been through hell while I was in the past; she has been through hell even after I returned. She has more than earned the right to this union!"Shelby's face held a look of genuine shock at Derrick's words. She then threw her arms around a startled Derrick as she kissed his cheek. Try as she might, she couldn't hold back the tears of happiness. I also overheard them rowing one day and was shocked to say the least when I heard Fiona scream at Alan. "I don't know how you dare call me a whore Maybe if you hadn't fucked around so much you wouldn't be so fucking paranoid," she then carried on her outburst as she came down the stairs, "That's probably why you haven't fucked me for three years." Sorry about that," Fiona apologised as she burst through the hallway door.It was from that point onwards that I started to look at my mother in law. You tell me. Is Dr. Steve ok?" Yeah. You popped his shoulder out. Beth got between you two before you could get him again. I popped it back. He's sore but cool." OK. Good. Am I under arrest?" What? No. Shit, dude, he's more freaked than you. That was so fuckin'..." Language." I cut in. My head was beginning to throb but I think I'm starting to piece the missing moments together."Huh? Oh, right. Sir. Uh, yeah. No, Dr. Steve's writin' his resignation an' tryin' not ta slit his own throat." He. ”“What did your wife think of that?”“She agreed to a promissory note for half the valuation of the business at the time of our divorce.”“So you paid her off and she left you, too,” I sighed. “I could end up in the same position.”“You could,” he said. “I finished paying my wife off fifteen years ago. But I never stopped paying her. She thinks the monthly payments are still paying the initial settlement. Maybe that’s my guilt talking.”“You’ve made fifteen years of monthly payments above and.