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He was glad they had a day
care in his office building, but he was still skeptical about
leaving his child with strangers. He’ll make sure to get everyone’s
information and back ground checks before he finally takes her
there.
    “ Ma.” Elizabeth
yelled pointing out to the lawn. Dave pulled out of his worry fest,
turned and followed her finger. Amy was asleep on the lawn. She was
too drunk to even make it to the door.
    Dave stared at her
completely unconcerned about her. He found it hard to believe that
she was the same woman he was married to for five years, spread out
on the lawn. He opened the back of his BMW Prado and put Elizabeth
in her baby seat. He walked to his drunken wife and took a few
photos with his I-phone. She was making it easy to build a case
against her. He smiled, excited that the custody battle would be a
slam dunk. The pictures may not seem like much, but he had won
cases with much less.
    “ Thank you so
much.” he spoke to his still wife. He walked back to his car, but
stopped, an impish idea in his head, “Daddy is going to be right
back.” he said to Elizabeth before he walked away. He couldn’t, in
good conscience leave his wife out on the lawn, the least he could
do was wake her up, show her the same courtesy she’d shown their
daughter when she left their door wide open for any psycho to walk
in and harm his child.
    He turned on the
sprinkler and walked back to his car and waited.
    “ You son of a
bitch!” Amy woke up screaming and cursing at him as she ran on to
the path, away from the water. Her red party dress clung to her as
she was soaked to the bone. Her blond hair had mud in it and her
make-up spread all over her face. She looked like a Halloween
character.
    “ Good morning
honey.” Dave said laughing, as he got in his car and drove
away.
    “ Carol, could
you put me through to the day care center?” Dave rapped his pen on
his desk. He found it hard to concentrate knowing his daughter was
been looked after by strangers. He had already done the back ground
checks and had gone as far as getting their contact details and
those of their families and saving them on his computer, but it
wasn’t enough to keep him calm. He used to be a trusting man,
before he got into this line of work, and before his wife became a
self centered brat who couldn’t be trusted with her own
daughter.
    “ You’ve just
been down there for lunch.” Carol responded, a little annoyed, “And
called eleven times in total. She’s fine!”
    Dave stayed patiently
quiet for a while, glad he didn’t start an affair with her. She
would have been a real pain in the ass, “Just put me
through.”
    “ You are being
a very over obsessive parent,” there was a click before another
voice came on, “Mr. Greer for the umpteenth time, your daughter is
fine.”
    Dave felt a little
awkward, but she was the only child he had, he was entitled to be
over obsessive and over protective, “Is she asleep?”
    “ Yes, and yes
we have someone personally and exclusively watching her.” the lady
said sarcastically.
    Dave didn’t get offended.
He figured he had annoyed her enough and being as rude to her would
not help either one of them, “Thank you.”
    “ You’re
welcome, and could we please not speak again today?” the line went
dead.
    Dave glared at the
receiver before he put it down. He felt a bit more relaxed and he
could concentrate on his work now that he knew his baby was fine,
until he got hysterical again and needed to check on
her.
    His phone rang, but he
didn’t need to pick it up to know what it was about. He could hear
Amy’s raised screeching voice outside his office, Carol’s was
raised to match hers. It didn’t take long before the insults began
to fly, and Carol seemed to be winning on that front. Dave rushed
out of his office, he needed to stop the commotion before it
attracted an audience or developed into a fist fight and end up on
You Tube. He opened the door just in time to catch Carol’s