[Music] 3 weeks before the wedding Ryan stepped away from his last client call and returned home early hoping to rehearse his wedding vows he opened the front door and to his surprise saw his beautiful fiance dressed up in a black cocktail dress a String of Pearls sheer black stockings and high heels damn she looks good he thought you're early her piercing voice revealed the horror she felt inside as her plan to avoid confrontation began to crumble at first Ryan thought he had forgotten about a dinner date so he flashed his best smile kissed his fiance
and announced give me 10 minutes and I'll be clean shaven and ready to go ready to go where Caroline shuddered as the words slipped from her lips he froze with you of course given how hot you look after a significant pause the fiance replied dear I'm very sorry but you misunderstood me oh God I was so afraid of this conversation that I was going to leave you a note explaining everything Ryan was even more confused when he noticed that next to the front door stood Caroline's travel back she saw where he was looking I won't
be home this weekend I'm puzzled what do you mean you won't be home I got so carried away with planning the wedding I need to leave and where are you headed a hotel in the city center alone it took her more than a minute to reply I will be with a friend Ryan took a deep breath since you didn't mention your friend's name can I assume that you'll be with a man Caroline looked guilty as Sin it's not like that he's just a friend Ryan's voice grew louder he began punching the air as if he
could force the words to obey you're going to stay in the same room with a man a week before our wedding and you want me to believe he's just a friend I need this weekend who is this son of a [ __ ] who will be sharing a bed with you his voice filled the room it's not like that he's my friend someone I talk to talk about what about us our relationship is he an experienced psychiatrist or psychologist Caroline sank to the floor and said nothing nothing is he a licensed therapist or counselor again
no answer is he at least a member of the clergy who advises engaged couples no but HEK a good listener she murmured a good listener Ryan growled you're going to spend the weekend before our wedding with some jerk because he's a good listener Caroline lowered her head even further her shoulders drooped and she seemed to shrink look at me when I'm talking to you Ryan waited until she lifted her head she was sobbing and tears streamed down her cheeks less than 2 minutes had undone hours of preparation I'll ask you one last time who is
this jerk promise you won't hurt him I promise that I'll find out who he is and I'll kill him if you go through with this that's what I promise Caroline collapsed onto the floor and curled up like a scolded puppy that had just chewed its owner's favorite slippers get up and answer me still there was no answer Ryan ripped a mirror off the hallway wall and threw it across the room it shattered against the dining room wall scattering shards of glass across the wooden floor Caroline jumped to her feet that's why I was going to
turn off my phone and leave you a note explaining why I had to do this Ryan's face terrified Caroline so if I had come home at the usual time you would have already been gone no resp response just a nod Ryan struggled to keep his composure and you were going to sneak away to spend the weekend with another man and leave me a note Ryan opened his briefcase pulled out a notepad and a pin he threw them on the dining table and pushed a chair towards it it better be a damn good note start writing
Caroline sat down and began to write after a few minutes she stopped and put down the pin he waited for her to hand him the notepad when she didn't he snapped snatched it from her she had written exactly one sentence next week I will start a new chapter of my life and I must do this before it's too late Ryan looked devastated his voice trembled with emotion as he asked tell me the truth were you going to admit that you were leaving with another man if I had more time I would have explained my feelings
you didn't answer my question I would have phrased it like this do you agree that what I did was for us to make make our marriage stronger that's Madness there's no sense in that how could your Affair make our marriage stronger he didn't give her a chance to respond people get divorced when one of them has an affair marriages end because of Affairs and so do engagements this took her by surprise she had never thought that Ryan would threaten to cancel their wedding over this Caroline tried to think of a way to justify her actions
finding none she resigned and blurted out I couldn't tell you because I knew you would react badly badly the word flipped a switch and Ryan exploded what are you talking about this isn't just bad this is your last chance I won't marry you next week or at all if you don't tell me his name right now the wedding is off how's that for bat Caroline grabbed him by the shoulders Ryan please don't say that I love you more than anything in the world but this is something I have to do he broke free tell me
his name silence you have one last chance tell me his name or get the hell out of my house and never come back Ryan please don't talk like that I love you there's really only one way to show it he opened the front door this is the last time I'm saying this tell me his name or get the hell out of my house finally she couldn't bear it anymore Scott Scott Jenkins from work your boss that son of a [ __ ] older than your father Ryan screamed Caroline howled like a bhee trying to escape
from hell have you already slept with him no answer followed have you already slept with him Caroline silently stared at the ground have you already slept with him Caroline covered her face with her hands although your silence speaks louder than any words I still wait for an answer have you already slept with him she nodded affirmatively this simple gesture struck Ryan harder than any baseball bat his heart pounded wildly and he thought he might have a heart attack his head spun and he grabbed the table to keep from falling Caroline stood afraid to say anything
Ryan took several deep breaths before he could speak as far as I remember from the Christmas party he's married what does his wife think about him sleeping with a beautiful blonde half for age she doesn't mind she's going through menopause and hasn't been able to have sex for nearly a year did she tell you that herself no Mr Jenkins Scott he said she's too embarrassed to talk about it why don't we call her and ask no Scott said it would humiliate her even more give me your phone I'm ready to risk it I don't have
her home number only mobile that means the jerk sneaks around behind his wife's back no no he respects her feelings and doesn't want her to feel less worthy as a woman I can't believe how foolishly you're defending him I can't stand this I give you a choice leave or be thrown out on your ass how dare you call me an animal what would you call an Engaged woman who has an affair with a married man no answer she turned away from him and started muttering to herself before you leave I have one more question why
were you planning to spend the weekend with another man finally she spoke it's all your fault you know my fault what the hell are you talking about when things got serious between us you admitted that you had been with three other girls before me you were the only man I had been with I told you it didn't matter but after talking to Scott it started to eat at me and I knew I would eventually cheat on you to even things out Scott said that if our marriage is to be successful we must enter it as
equals he said I should do this now because I told him you always said you would never stay married to a woman who cheats on you we're not married so I would even the score then I would never cheat on you after we get married what have you lost your mind that was before I met you I have been 100% faithful to you since our first date Ryan continued so you jeopardized our entire future for some lustful old man who wanted to sleep with a girl half his age no it's not like that at all
I mean yes we talked about it he made me realize how unfair it was to me but he never tried to manipulate me so it never occurred to you that he had a vested interest in having you even the score no it was not like that at all he just wanted to help us don't make me laugh what exactly did the good listener say that could help us he hardly said anything but he help help me think it all through he made me realize that I had the right to sleep with three different men so
that we could enter our marriages equals right what a load of crap Ryan yelled Ryan I enjoyed sex with another man but I love you so much that I'm willing to settle for just one Caroline smirked foolishly as if she had played a trump card settle for one Ryan looked at her intently if it weren't so pathetic I would laugh I'm so so confused when Scott explained it it made so much sense it wasn't supposed to be like this you're right we were supposed to be together forever faithful to each other Ryan looked like he
was about to explode and how do you think would I react when I find out that you're sleeping with your boss no no no you're twisting everything then tell me what do you think will happen when you come back home after the weekend did you really think I'd be the good little cockled and thank the old man for sleeping with my fiance no I hoped you would never find out I love you I never wanted to hurt you it was going to be my little secret hidden forever you thought you could go away for the
weekend just turn off your phone and disappear without telling me where you were going and I wouldn't realize you had cheated on me he looked at her as if she were a naive country girl and yet she continued speaking even if you found out I know you love me enough to understand the fairness of it and we would get married and live happily ever after fairness the word was charged with Fury what about everything you know about me made you believe that I would still marry you after you had an affair Scotty said Scotty said
damn it Ryan shouted he's an [ __ ] who found a naive woman he could control no he's a very caring person who wanted to help our marriage succeed how many times have you had sex with him or any other man I swear there were no other men then how many times did you sleep with him not that many seven or eight you had sex with another man seven or eight times while we were engaged and you think that's not that many I did it for us Caroline sobbed to make our marriage work remember the
conversation when I admitted I wasn't a virgin I never told you I had been with three different girls before you I just said that I had sex three times each time was with Sally MCD a girl things were good with until I met you we planed to run away together after high school that quickly ended when her mother caught us naked you know how that story ended they left town the next day and I never heard from her again we met the next month since that day I haven't kissed another woman let alone had sex
Caroline felt nauseous so you're ahead of me by S or 8 to three I guess I would need to sleep with four or five more women to make us equal no I I I do you think that jerk would say that I have the right to sleep with four or five different women to make us equal what about your best friend Laura you always said you don't trust her around me maybe your sister she isn't seeing anyone no Ryan please no give me one good reason why not I will end this Affair and not go
away with him for the weekend you have to understand I made a mistake but I did it for us no you did it for yourself and yourself alone please Ryan give me another chance she pleaded you're too late I can never trust you again please give me one more chance I swear I will never Ryan raised his hand she fell silent what you did was pure evil there's no us anymore you destroyed it and there will be no wedding never no no no don't say that I love you I swear I'll never cheat on you
again what hurts even more than your sexual betrayal is that you didn't come to me when you had doubts I the person you supposedly love I don't know what I would have said or done but I can swear I would never have advised you to start an affair with a married man only a creature that destroys marriages could do such a thing silence Caroline could almost feel the Bony Fingers of Death tearing her soul from her chest every breath she took she struggled to breathe tasting bile in her mouth how do you think your mother
will call you when I tell her we are not getting married because you tooken the tool of an old freak a real old tool Caroline responded with a scream no I will make sure that everyone knows what you did all of our family and and friends will know that we are not getting married because you had an affair with a married man Ryan grabbed her left hand and nearly broke her finger taking the engagement ring from his former fiance no it's mine you gave it to me her hands flailed at him trying to retrieve the
symbol of their commitment you betrayed us you betrayed everything this ring stands for he clenched it tightly in his fist it's over I can't marry you please please leave before I hurt you the finality of these words painfully wounded Caroline she tried to speak but her mouth could not produce a word instead she emitted a sound like someone dying struggling for their last breath her eyes were wide her body trembled still no words were heard the room fell into silence tears streamed down Ryan's cheeks I haven't felt like this since my father died Caroline rum
through her memory trying to find the right words to save her marriage but nothing came out only then did she finally understand that she had been deceived a sharp knock at the door broke the silence Caroline recovered from the shock enough to say oh my God that's Scott I'll tell him to leave please don't make a scene Ryan grabbed the baseball bat he kept by the door I'm not going to cause trouble I'll kill him right here in the foyer while you watch Caroline jumped up and tried to stop him heun not worth going to
jail for I really don't care he bypassed her I have nothing to live for but if I kill him I will have Avenged the pain he caused me she tried to call him on his cell phone to warn him the call went straight to voicemail Ryan holding the bat in one hand opened the door he was ready to knock the old man down instead he was met by two police officers the bat fell from his hand it hit the ceramic tile floor with a loud clunk the officers ignored him excuse me ma'am are you Caroline
Bradley what's the problem officer the police entered and closed the door do you know Mrs Loretta Jenkins I work for her husband Scott the officers looked at each other as if they were in on a private joke is everything all right did something happen to Loretta no ma'am but about an hour AG go Mrs Jenkins killed her husband in the living room of their home Caroline fainted and fell to the floor Ryan went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot full of water he poured it over her face her once beautifully styled hair
now looked like a drowned rat it took several minutes before she could speak oh God Scotty is dead she sobbed yes ma'am she shot him six times in the chest with a 38 caliber revolver then Reloaded and shot him six more times point blank in the face detectiv said it was the coldest thing they'd ever seen she nearly blew his head off the only sound was Ryan's laughter the police looked at him as if he were insane looks like she didn't let her husband go away with you for the weekend after all we need you
to come to the station ma'am Mrs Jenkins told a neighbor she would kill you for ruining her marriage we have half a dozen squads patrolling the area but they think you'll be safer at the station she had a pale stunned face don't come back you liar his voice faded as his former fiance let out a terrible Scream the police half carried Caroline to their car Ryan watched as the blue lights disappeared into the distance trying to understand how his life had turned to crap three strong swigs of whiskey loosened his tongue the fourth awakened his
writing skills he said about composing an email to everyone whose addresses he had family friends colleagues the church choir everyone Ryan titled it why I am not marrying Caroline bradle the deceiver and Beast if you watch the news tonight the lead story will be about a middle-aged woman who killed her husband because he slept with a 25-year-old Beast shamefully this Beast is my former fiance yes the prissy and proper Miss Caroline who always looked down on her friends for sleeping around is responsible for a 60-year-old man getting shot yes she slept with a guy older
than her father now you know why I'm not getting married thank God it happened before I ruined my life by marrying a cheating Beast PS the police are hiding Caroline because the Widow of her lover is hunting her down to kill her I hope she succeeds a couple of minutes after he hit the sin button he had half a dozen replies then his phone rang the first call was from a local newspaper asking for an interview he sent the reporter a couple of photos of her in a tight bikini then he told him the story
of her betrayal then he agreed to give an interview on a local radio station for the next two hours Ryan spent his time talking to journalists and responding to emails most of them including Caroline's friends and family were very supportive when he got tired of repeating the story he took a break and started stuffing Caroline's belongings into black trash bags eventually he filled four bags he dragged them to the garage near the TR as cans Ryan lived in a Suburban neighborhood where there hadn't been a murder in 5 years so the next morning the local
newspaper ran a headline love triangle ends in death television stations also descended on the peaceful community each LED their evening news with photos of The Fugitive suspect as well as Ryan's former fiance in a bikini and the victim it was pitch dark outside when Ryan decided to finish off a bottle of bourbon the next morning the TV Crews arrived just just in time to film a locksmith changing the locks in conclusion he hung a sign and no trespassing 2 hours later the police found Loretta Jenkins asleep in her car a few blocks from Caroline's apartment
she was arrested without incident Ryan was hung over when someone began knocking on his front door go away he yelled it's the police came the reply he opened the door Mr Ericson your fiance wants to come home to expl explain what happened I don't have a fiance and this is not her home this is my house it will never be her home please take her things because I might do something I'll regret later he stepped outside and pointed at the trash bags that's all she had I would appreciate it if you told her that I
will never forgive her and will never speak to her again never he heard her screaming from the patrol car Ryan I love you he slammed the door and turned on the television he switched to a movie channel and leaned back in his chair to watch a black and white Western no one ever admitted to sending the photos that led Mrs Jenkins to learn about the affair but everyone agreed that Scotty's secretary had a very smug expression on her face when she showed up at work on Monday morning Caroline became a pariah in the town naturally
she was fired even before she could enter her office when the owner died and his wife's expense of lawyers failed to Pro prove temporary insanity the business was sold to a Chinese investor who quickly fired everyone and relocated operations to a small island nation Caroline's family and friends were United in their condemnation of the adulteress the day after she testified in court she packed all her belongings into her car and set off to start a new life as she drove out of town for the last time she passed by Ryan's house a sold sign was
posted in the yard she tried to keep driving but could see nothing through her tears she stopped the car closed her eyes and tried to remember what it felt like when he held her she wished she could die epilog 6 years had passed and Ryan returned to his hometown for the funeral of a childhood friend who had died a hero in Iraq the Alumni Association had invited the entire class and a large turnout was expected it was the first time he had come back since that night his beautiful wife Brooklyn affectionately known as Brooke CL
Ed his hand as he led her through the town square she knew that every step held very bad memories for him and she tightened her grip little Ryan being an energetic three-year-old boy didn't want to wait for his slow-moving parents and took off to explore on his own when his mom and dad stopped to look into the window of an antique shop little Ryan not looking where he was going ran into a woman coming out of the store she stepped back a few steps and dropped her bag on the sidewalk several items fell out including
a condolence card Ryan Robert Ericson stop running right now chill ran down the woman's spine when she heard his name his mother turned to the woman and said we've been in the car for 6 hours and he has too much pinup energy to walk little Ryan approached the woman and said unprompted I'm sorry I bumped into you lady and made you cry are you okay Brooke asked I'm F your son is a very well-mannered gentleman you should be proud of him as Ryan senior knelt down to pick up the bag he recognized the woman their
eyes met and they continued to look at each other while his son helped him pick up a fallen pin he silently handed the bag to the woman then Brooke noticed tears in her husband's eyes she immediately understood who this woman was and like a lioness protecting her Cubs she stepped between the painful memory and her husband never come near my family she stared intently at the woman provoking her to speak as Caroline slipped away she heard Brooke ad never means forever you're a monster thank you for being with us and listening until the end if
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