Game Over: Goodbye, Cheater
"Vince, let's be clear about one thing—you're the one who can't live without me. If you try to use a breakup to manipulate me again, don't blame me when I'm not so nice about it."
Without so much as a glance at me, she slammed the door and left.
As I watched her leave, I remembered how she had appeared out of nowhere that year.
At the time, Mom was drunk, and a single phone call from Scott's father, Malcolm Barlow, had provoked her into a blind rage. She grabbed a wine bottle and hurled it at me and my father, Russell Cline.
Dad had yet to recover from a serious illness and could barely even walk. We huddled in a corner of the house, with nowhere to run.