Twenty Four Weeks: Episode 5 - "Sixteen"

By James David Denisson

Still reeling from the shock of discovering his wife's infidelity, Judd Altman learns that he has lost his father and will be one himself. His soon to be ex-wife, Quinn, is pregnant with his child.
After almost losing the baby, Wade (Judd's old boss and Quinn's lover) realizes the truth about himself and his relationship with Quinn and leaves her. Judd, in the face of Quinn's situation, forgives her, but cannot reconcile their marriage.
With nothing but a stolen Porsche, Judd drives to Maine with limitless possibilities. A man with nothing has nothing to lose, and a man with nothing to lose can do anything.
Twenty Four Weeks begins with Judd's time of reflection in Maine and his eventual decision to return to New York City, to take back the life that has been so cruelly taken from him. Sometimes humorous, this bitter-sweet tale is full of hope, love and forgiveness.
With characters and back story based on the novel "This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper, Twenty Four Weeks is set after the events of the movie of the same name.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James David Denisson
• Release date: Feb 16, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310797392

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Twenty Four Weeks – Episode 5 – Sixteen

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Written by J.D.Denisson.

A sequel to the movie This is Where I Leave You.

Characters and back story based on the novel This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper.

Copyright 2016 J.D.Denisson.

Warning: This episode contains: coarse language, adult themes and sexual references.

Previously…

The elevator dings at my floor and slides open. Quinn is standing there dressed in an old shirt of mine and I instantly know that she’s not fine at all. She’s the opposite of fine. I step into our lounge room and the door closes behind me like a trap. Her eyes are red and she’s got dark circles below them. Her hair is usually tied back in a tail, neat and tidy, her signature look, but it’s out and a little unruly. She squeezes her eyes tight, trying to hold back her tears but that just makes it worse, they flow down her cheeks in steams.

I step up to her, take her in my arms and hold her tight, tighter than I have ever held her. Tighter than I first held her when we lost our boy. She falls apart, weeping into my shoulder, sobbing uncontrollably, shaking. I hold her, keep holding her, not saying anything for words had no meaning now, only my arms and her grief.

I’m so sorry, she weeps, what I did to you, to us... I broke us. I hurt you so much.

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We talk for a long time about the lives we have lived together, about the times of great joy and the times of pain. We talk about our baby boy and what happened within her after, how the pain almost destroyed her and how she learnt to deal with it by simply living on. She talks about Wade but she doesn’t dwell on him because he’s broken her heart and she’s still hurting and through it all she’s realised she made the biggest mistake of her life and she doesn’t think she can undo it. She doesn’t tell me how things started with him or why. That would be for another time when both of us are stronger.

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