My mother was right behind him, cursing under her breath as she went:
"Damn right. I want to see for myself what kind of homewrecker could have that whole family wrapped around her finger."
I handed the baby to the maternity nurse, then climbed into the car with my parents.
In the backseat, my mom wouldn't stop:
"Brad Delgado, that ungrateful snake. Back when he wanted to marry you, he knelt outside our front door for three days and three nights. Knelt until his forehead was split open and bleeding before I finally agreed to let my daughter marry him. And now? His own wife is still recovering from giving birth, and he runs off to take care of his mistress and her illegitimate child?"
"And your mother-in-law! Always going on about how she treats her daughter-in-law like her own flesh and blood. And what does she do? Her own daughter-in-law is suffering, and she doesn't lift a finger. Instead she goes off to wait on some other woman's maternity recovery?"
"If I catch them red-handed doing my daughter wrong, I will make them pay. Every last one of them."
Mom was furious.
Back when Brad first came courting, she hadn't approved.