“Nothing about our relationship is normal, Perry. She faces straight ahead, her back still to me, bending her knees and wrapping her arms around them. “It killed me, knowing you were with him.”ĭamn it, she’s going to make me say it, isn’t she? “Why what?”Ĭarefully I lift my head away from her and run my fingers through her hair, letting the strands fall onto her shoulders, the ends trailing in the warm water. Her softly spoken question has my eyes cracking open. I’m getting hotter thanks to the steam wafting upwards from the water and I rest my cheek against her soft hair, closing my eyes. We’re quiet, the only sound is the sloshing water as our bodies move and shift. The admission leaves me feeling vulnerable and I swallow down the rest of the words I want to say to her. “I can’t lose you like that again, wife.”
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