“Carrie’s lawyer is going to try to break the prenup because of the abuse she suffered?” It seemed like therapy had empowered Carrie in ways Lila hadn’t imagined.

“Yes. We’re going to have to fight her. We lost the first time and had to pay. How was I supposed to know my first wife would get a lawyer?” Bobby complained.

“How about you stick to hookers from now on, asshole,” Donny shot back. “Momma won’t deal with this again. You know what she’s going to do if we don’t handle this properly.”

“Then I think you should talk to your momma,” Mabel replied.

Bobby’s arm tightened again. “It’s Carrie’s greed that needs to be dealt with. She needs to understand that she’s not getting anything more out of me. I did her a favor when I married her. She was nothing. No man was going to look at that skinny bitch. No one wanted her until I did. She doesn’t get to take everything away from me.”

“You couldn’t expect her to stay with you.” She needed to talk him down. He might sober up a bit and realize what he was doing. He’d been careful before. He’d obviously not wanted to get into more trouble. Maybe if he realized how bad this could get, he would calm down. There was still time. “You hurt her.”

His face contorted. “I didn’t mean to. She wouldn’t listen. I’m no worse than my daddy was. And I never hurt her when she didn’t need it. It wasn’t my fault. She was a bad wife and now I hear she’s going to file the paperwork soon and she’s going to testify against me. She’s determined to ruin my whole family.”

“We’re not going to let that happen,” Donny vowed. “She doesn’t get to hurt my family that way.”

“I think they want to get rid of the records,” Mabel managed to say.

Yes, she got that.

“You’re the one who burned down my house?” She needed to keep him talking because she had zero doubt that Armie would show up after the session was over.

“I thought maybe it would convince you that you didn’t belong here.” Donny started to stalk toward her. “We don’t need some uppity city girl coming in here and telling us how to do things. And it wasn’t that hard. That house went up real easy. It was a beautiful sight.”

And he’d gotten away with it. The trouble was he wouldn’t get away with this one. They weren’t thinking straight, and she had to wonder if she pointed out all the fallacies in their plan if they wouldn’t kill her just because she got them angry.