ODDS OF LOVE - SEASON THIRTEEN

Episode 149

" Why are you making so much noise? ," Edie demanded to know as she came into the downstairs back storage room of her house and saw her son still tied to the chair trying to move it across the room towards where the tiny window was. " I'm trying to rest. You are irritating me. You must be punished. You really do need punishment. "

Andrew looked at the woman he called mother for the sixty six years of his life and felt actual hatred building in his heart for her. She had hit him. Imprisoned him. Was keeping him from his wife , his children, his even more precious grandchildren, his friends...... He had to figure out how to escape. He wondered if anyone had figured out he was missing yet. They had to know where he was..... They had to......

He watched his mother moving towards him and noticed her holding something. A small bottle of gin..... Dear God..... Why did she have that......His mother only indulged in alcohol, as she called it , on Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Edie opened the bottle and then abruptly snatched the rag out of his mouth. Before he could scream for help to anyone who might hear him, to his horror, his own mother, the only mother he had ever known in his life, forced his mouth open and poured the alcohol down his throat.

He tried to resist it but he couldn't. Tears filled his eyes as she kept forcing him to drink.

No. No. Please God no.

Why ? , his mind called out in desperation. Why ? Please God...... Help......

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Richard demanded to know on the phone," Where is my father? Have you found him yet? "

Sheriff Kentland said abruptly," Well now one of my men went to your grandmother's house and asked her if she had seen him recently. Mrs. Norland said she had not. She also told him that he had a drinking problem. Is it not possible that he got buzzed, wasted , and just wandered off from his car ? I've seen it with drunks before. "

Richard slammed his hand down on his desktop hard as his office door opened with a worried looking Glory entering along with Nigel.

" My father is not drunk. He is a recovering alcoholic but he has been sober for a while now. He did not just wander off and leave his car , his wallet, his phone in Manassas. He wouldn't abandon his family ! "

Glory gasped ," What are they saying? Andrew wasn't drunk when I talked to him. "

Nigel came over to touch his husband supportively on his shoulder.

The sheriff snapped," It's tough for families to hear this but drunks fall off the wagon all the blamed time. And from what I hear he has a history of abandoning his family. Judge , if I was you I would just give him time to sober up and make his way back home. They always do. But I ain't no more time to waste on this one. "

Richard immediately saw red. " Fuck you ! Find my father now! Or I will ! "