Kentucky's Best

Chapter 20

Three months later

Harry walks into the house after a really bad day at the clinic. He always hated when he had to put one of his patients down because they were to ill or injured to save, and today he had to do that twice. On top of that his mom has left and went back home, and he missed her, he was hoping she would like it here as much as he does and decide to stay. Gemma did, she has moved into the house he was living in, Harry is happy about that, and the fact that she's dating Louis, the town sherriff. He's a really great guy.
Walking further into the house Harry realizes how quiet it is, usually when he gets home, Steph runs up to greet him and he can smell whatever it is Rose is cooking, but today there's nothing, looking around he sees nothing out of order and he doesn't remember Rose telling him she had a late case. With a frown Harry realizes Rose's truck wasn't in the driveway. Reaching for his phone he checks it to see if he has any missed calls or text messages from her, not seeing anything Harry is starting to get really worried.
Just as he is about to call Rose to see where she and his daughter is he hears her pull up. Walking back onto the porch Harry watches as Rose helps Steph from her truck, she then hands her some bags and grabs some herself then heads for the house. Steph is the first to see Harry standing there.

"Hi daddy." Stephanie chirps. "We went shopping."

"So I see." Harry says. "Why don't you go in the house Bug. I'll be right in." Harry says, he then turns and looks at Rose. "Who the hell do you think you are." Harry suddenly snaps.

Rose freezes just as she's about to step up onto her front porch as soon as those words hit her ears. Shocked she looks up. "What? Harry I just took Steph shopping, we talked about it last night. She was in need of new clothes, what's wrong with you?" Rose asks him.

"Me?" Harry yells, not realizing his daughter could hear him. "That is my daughter not yours." He snaps causing tears to form in Rose's eyes. "I'm so fucking tired of you spending my money. You're just like every other woman I've ever known, he's a doctor, he's rich, I'll date him, spend his money. Well I'm tired of it." Harry snaps not knowing where all this anger is coming from. "I bet you have this nice little nest egg built up now don't you, you've been putting all your money in savings, spending mine sence the day I was stupid enough to fall for your lies." Harry didn't know if what he was saying is true or not, Rose took care of all the book work when it came to all that. What he didn't know was she hasn't spent any of his money at all, she's been spending all of hers. His was going into a savings account and was building up fast.

Rose was standing there speechless. She didn't know what brought all this on, what she did to cause all this, and it hurt.

"Hell, you're worse than my wife ever fucking was at least she never pretended to love my child to get to me." Harry yells at Rose finally causing the tears to escape her eyes. "I've had it, I'm tired of all this, I want you out of my life." Harry says as he spins around and slams back into the house. The first thing he does is pack all of Steph's things up then throws them into the back of his truck, he then goes to the room he is sharing with Rose and packs his things and does the same thing there. He figures if he forgets something he can always come back for it later. He just needs to leave this place for some reason. He then picks his crying daughter up and puts her in his truck and drives away without saying another word to Rose.

In a daze Rose walks into her now quiet and empty house. She still has no idea what brought all that on, she and Harry has never argued about anything before. They had talked the night before about her taking Stephanie shopping for new clothes since she was out growing hers so quickly. While they were out shopping Rose thought that would be a good time to buy a few baby items, show them to Harry, kind of telling him in that way he's going to be a daddy again, but then she came home to this.
Rose makes her way to her sofa, lays down and just sobs. That's how she falls asleep, and how Gemma finds her hours later with tears still streaming from her eyes, even while sleeping.

Gemma was shocked to see her brother walk into the house she is now living in with his and Steph's things. Harry never says a word he just throws all the bags into a room and tells Steph to unpack. With a sobbing Steph doing as she's told, Gemma marches up to Harry, grabs his arm and pulls him out the back door.
"What the fuck is going on?" She snaps.

Harry runs his hand though his hair. "I don't know, Gem. Rose came home from taking Steph shopping and I lost it. I started yelling at her. Saying things that should never have been said." Harry says as tears rolls down his cheeks. "I just fucked up so badly, I'll never be able to get her back." He says, dropping to sit on the ground, putting his head in his hands.

"How bad can it be? Did you leave or she kick you out?" Gemma asks.

"Hell Gem, she never said a word, she just stood there crying listening to me yell at her for no reason. I told her she was worse than Rhonda, that I was tired of her pretending to love Steph to get my money." Harry tells his sister.

"Oh hell, Harry." Gemma snaps, then reaches out and smacks him. "You are one stupid fuck, you know that. Rose told me the other day the only time she spends your money is when the 3 of you are out together and you pay, any other time she uses her money Harry. She buys all her animals feed, pays for her house, her truck, buys the food. Rose, does all the shopping while you work. Maybe you should check and see how rich your fucking ass is compared to her." Gemma yells at him then slams back into the house and leaves to go check on Rose.