Unexpected

Chapter 23: Calm Is Unpredicatable

Walking passed her, blood leaving a trail behind him, he cooly walks to the downstairs bathroom and shuts the door behind him. Going to the sink, he looks in the mirror and takes a few deep breaths as he regains focus. Taking out tweezers he painfully digs small shards of glass out of his hand. More blood gushes from his hand and he starts feeling dizzy, but he continues to take the glass out. Coming to a big piece, he pulls it out and clenches his teeth as big sopping tears come down his cheeks. He's so angry right now that the pain makes him feel better because he's not focusing on Emily.

Getting all the glass out, he finds a big roll of gauze and wraps his hand nice a thick so the blood doesn't come out. Going out to the entrance of his apartment, he grabs a mop and a bucket of water and calmly mops up the blood. Emily just stands there and watches him. It's scaring the shit out of her at how calm and collected he is. He has yet to raise his voice to her and has yet to confront her about anything more. She watches him cautiously because being calm is the most irrational and unpredictable way to handle something like this. She would rather he flip out on her, be angry, hit her even. She wants him to have some kind of rational emotion to her cheating. She never meant to cheat on him, but Giovanni was there when he was in Georgia. He is exotic and suave. But that doesn't excuse her. They had only been married for a month and she cheated. She hid it for three months. She is a fool and she deserves to feel like shit. But apparently Norman refuses to treat her that way- which even for Norman isn't normal.

"Norman.... I messed up. And I'm so sorry about all of it. I love you. Be angry with me. Yell. Do something. Punish me."

"Yer not a child Emily. I'm not going to punish you like one. You know what you did and you can live with that. You will live with that. Whether yer sorry or not is irrelevant because you were consciously making the decision to not only hurt me, but Mingus. That's punishment enough. I wish to be alone for a while. If you could please give me some space, I would appreciate that." His calm voice soothes her but still makes her feel sick. He has no real emotion and it scares her. She goes to leave and Norman stops her with his gentle voice. "I demand his name. And you will tell me, because I at least deserve that."

"Giovanni...." Giovanni Cianci. He should have figured it was her new manager. He should have figured that she and him would do this. He predicted it. She could have lied to him, but they both know he already knew. After he's done cleaning up, he grabs his keys and heads down to his car. He's going out of a stiff drink. He needs one.

As he starts driving he thinks of what those two had been doing. He thinks about how he held Emily and said her name. He thinks about how she probably blew him and road him raw. It frustrates him and before he realizes it, he is parked in front of Giovanni's office. He sits there and one by one the lights go out and soon, he finds Giovanni lock up and walk to his car. Norman drives slowly behind him and follows him all the way to his house. He waits for Giovanni to get out of his car and head inside. After a few minutes, Norman gets out and goes to the door. Knocking on it, he waits for the door to open up and when it does, Giovanni seems confused and Norman smiles sweetly before decking the man back into his house. Giovanni smashes against the hard tiled floor and Norman steps in over him and grabs him by his shirt collar making him look at him.

"You know Emily Kinney?" Norman asks and the confused man nods his head as blood gushes down his face. "Well she's my wife you fuck and I found out things that would make your mother keel over in disappointment. Stay the fuck away from her."

Letting go, he puts his hand out and Giovanni hesitantly takes his hand and Norman helps him up. Brushing off his shoulders, Norman cleans the man's shirt up and looks him deep in the eyes.

"I'm typically a nice guy, Cianci. But when you fuck with my family- I don't take that too lightly. Have a goodnight." Norman leaves the man confused and deep down they both know that he could have killed him. But it's just that much control in Norman that stopped him from doing that.

Too bad. Norman wanted to have some fun.