it's strange what desire will make foolish people do
Series Metadata
Listing Series
-
Tags
Summary
Beth is a champion at not thinking about things.
She could fill entire neighborhoods with all the things she doesn't think about. Things like: how she can't remember the last time she knew for sure where next month's mortgage payment was coming from. How her mother in law seems to be waiting in the wings for a single misstep so she can push Beth out of her own home and claim her family for her own. How Dean cheating again is a when, not an if, and she should probably feel something about that besides distantly glad that he'll be occupied and out of her way. How she may have bitten off a little more than she can chew with her brilliant outsourcing strategy, and she can never admit it to the girls. How seeing the shadowy figure in her backyard made her heart pound and time crystallize but not from fear even as she cataloged all of the details of the silhouette that were off, bad, fundamentally wrong.
Series
-
what a wicked game you played (to make me feel this way) by ms_scarlet
Fandoms: Good Girls (TV)
27 Feb 2020
Tags
Summary
The thing about Elizabeth is that she surprised him and it'd been a long time since anyone managed to pull that off. It wasn't the housewife thing, he'd crossed paths with plenty of suburban bitches and knew their flavors of desperate inside and out. In his line of work, he's seen people at every version of their worst.
Elizabeth, though, she was somethin' else. She'd sat there that afternoon way back when with her shoulders straight, hands folded, all prim and proper, and a gun to her forehead for the first time in her life, callin' Rio out on his shit. The way her voice had been shaking, he'd looked up expecting tears, preemptively exhausted at the thought of them. But underneath that flush, she'd been mad as hell, and it stopped him up short because her mad had an edge he'd recognized.
He hadn't been expecting that.
Series