Chapter 143. Give Me Some Time

"You have got to be kidding me!" Bernard had no idea when he stood up abruptly from the chair he was sitting on. It was the clatter of the chair as it fell to the floor that made him realize that he was on his feet.

"What do you mean by that? We are barely married, and now you want a divorce? What…what….."

"Bernard, please calm down," Marissa said as she stood up to right the chair he had just fallen over.

"Calm down?" Bernard looked at her like she had sprouted horns. "Calm down? How can you stand there telling me calmly to calm down when you just said that?"

"I don't want to fight with you, Bernard," she sighed as she went back to sit down, picked up her slice of pancake, and dropped it back. She hadn't been feeling the taste before anyway.

"You don't want to fight? What then would you call this that you are doing? You are practically ripping my heart out here, and you can calmly sit down there and tell me you don't want to fight with me?" He asked