damn how does he know how did Dave find out my marriage is toast I just know it the courts will judge Dave to be the primary caregiver of our kids he'll be awarded custody I'll be a social Pariah shunned by just about everyone in this church-going community forgiven by the priest with soft words but a judging expression just like he did with Mary Skelton she only lasted about 3 months after her husband disced CED her Affair three lonely months of being shunned by the rest of the community despite what the priest had urged this community
really hates cheating spouses of both breeds I slammed on the brakes and screeched to a halt stopping two scant meters from hitting a little girl who had run onto the road chasing a ball she looked to be about three about the same as my Paula I was driving too fast too preoccupied by my huge problem the child's mother frowned at me from the curb even though it was her fault for not supervising her kid better I looked around and saw I was near the big Park 5 minutes from home I suppressed my fears drove with
shaking hands another 200 M and pulled over before I hit someone in my distraction how could Dave possibly think no that's stupid once Dave discovered I was having an affair it's only logical he'd think ill of me and want to cover his bases he might run a dinky little editorial service from home but that doesn't mean he's stupid far from it once he found out of course he would think it wasn't my first and get the kids DNA tested but how did he find out Carl and I have been so careful thoughts of Carl reminded
me I picked up my phone and navigated to Carla if Dave ever asked a recently started work colleague stick as close to the truth as possible was my motto my text can you talk while waiting for a reply I continued to kick myself why oh why did I let that smooth talking little jerk seduce me no no now come on be honest that's not fair why we slept together the first time wasn't seduction and is perfectly explainable it happened while we were out of town we just spent two whole days negotiating an exhausting deal celebrated
with too many sham pains and fallen into bed together if I had stopped there it would have been fine I would have a secret that I would Ru to my final day a grave secret that could only hurt my husband and family but I or should I say we didn't we'd both been ens snared by the excitement of sleeping with someone different after 10 plus years of marriage the alure of the illicitness of it all the thrill of the naughtiness of it the superiority of knowing we were fooling our spouses two people who knew us
so well and successfully hiding it or not successfully hiding it as it turns out my thoughts were interrupted by the ding of a text from Carl finally no having dinner with Mary and the kids what's up well misery loves company they say he knows Dave knows about us how had Dave found out we'd been incredibly careful only got together when we were away and then only if we could get adjoining rooms we never walked into the same room door together and always used protection even the first time made absolutely sure we behaved normally in public
and when we were home with our respective spouses another ding hell Mary is acting normally so he hasn't told her do you think he will how angry is he don't know we haven't spoken yet I did a runner as soon as I discovered he knew I replied this time I didn't have to wait long for a reply ding please beg him not to tell Mary the selfish little jerk destroy my marriage so long as he is unaffected I have a good mind to tell his wife if Dave doesn't like I say misery loves company so
how were we discovered I'd made sure my love for my husband hadn't suffered not introduce any new positions or techniques I'd learn learned from Carl to say intimacy with Carl was vanilla and uninspiring would be an understatement he was smaller lasted less time and was not nearly as experimental as my Dave in fact if it hadn't been for the illicitness of it all it wouldn't have lasted the seven months and six Liaisons it actually had how unlucky we'd been discovered before I terminated our Affair after our next trip in 2 weeks time Focus Megan how
you were discovered isn't relevant you were found out and now your husband trusts you so little he's getting DNA tests done on your kids my mind flashed back to a scant 20 minutes earlier when I'd come home late too late to enjoy dinner with my family luckily Dave worked from home did the school runs and cooked dinner six nights a week I was supposed to cook on Sundays but I normally went and got takeaways let's just say cooking isn't one of my strong points walking in the door I froze at the horrible sight Dave sitting
on one of the kitchen chairs with one of those cotton swabs on a stick wiping it around the inside of the mouth of Jillian our 5-year-old the open sterilized packet sitting on the table Peter our seven-year-old standing there also either waiting his turn or having been done already I'd read enough stories and seen enough TV to know I was looking at the opening act of a DNA test my initial reaction was one of Rage how dare Dave think the kids weren't his I wasn't a or was I knowing I had to think how best to
survive this I just turned and fled just before I did Dave turned to look at me a neutral expression on his face I raised my hands to my cheeks remembering the feeling of the blood draining from them which was a blatant confession of the truth in the circumstances of what the testing was accusing me of 20 minutes later here I am contemplating my families and my social destruction I knew Dave I knew him as well as he knew himself once he was ready to confront me he would do it firmly and quietly he wouldn't want
the whole town to know he'd had the horns hung on him if I couldn't prevent him from at least divorcing me I'd ask him to do it quietly just say we'd Grown Apart that way even though I'd lose the security of my marriage I could still stay in town and see my kids maybe have shared joint custody I did love them my mind wandered off for God knows how long running different scenarios of how Dave would react trying to find the one that made me lose the least suddenly I realized I was thinking like a
defeatist I was using my knowledge of Dave and assuming that separation was a given and that the best scenario from here was a quiet divorce but what if I was wrong what if I threw myself on Dave's Mercy told him about the forgivable first time and the regrettable continuation he wouldn't want a divorce any more than me sure his faith and trust in me would be shattered and it would take years for him to fully trust me again but I would still have the respectability and the support of the community if you do this Megan
you'll have to be absolutely honest with Dave one whiff of an untruth and you'll arrive at the curb quicker than a cheetah on speed I glanced at my watch just under 2 hours since my Discovery I hadn't been as clever at hiding my affair with Carl as I'd thought 2 hours since I'd gone from being secure in my marriage to fighting for its very Life 2 hours after seeing my husband's DNA testing my children raised my blood pressure 100 points I tapped out a quick text I'm on my way home to beg you for forgiveness
for my affair with Carl please don't do anything Hasty then slowly headed my car home well what happened after that exceeded my worst nightmare 10 minutes after sending my text I reached home as soon as I pulled into the driveway Dave stormed out the door threw a stay here and look after the kids at me and screamed off in his car I found out later that he went straight to Carl's house and went when my lover answered the door broke his nose with a single punch while yelling mess with my wife will you those words
stopped Carl's wife from calling the police and between her and Dave they extracted the full story as Carl begged them to call him an ambulance with Carl saying he was punched but his wife claiming he fell against the wall the police investigation went nowhere when he returned from an emergency the locks were changed at his house and his wife had an online appointment with a divorce lawyer how do I know all this Dave came straight home and told me to pack a bag and leave with one look at the fire in his eyes and his
bruised knuckles with an inkling of how they came to be I did as requested and fled to a mid-range motel in town I saw a bandaged Carl at the breakfast bar the next day any hopes Dave would be quiet were dashed in the early afternoon when Carl and I were invited into the Coo's office and sarily executed she didn't quote any morals clause in our contracts just said she didn't want to employ home wrecking bottom feeding scumbags like the pair of us ouch I could see how the immediate future was going to be when I
rang all three divorce lawyers in our town and none returned my call when I went to a diner for dinner the waitress refused to acknowledge my existence the nail in the coffin however was when I met up with Carl and found out he was already being treated like a leper by family friends and exwork colleagues alike within two days spurred by a visit from the motel manager who claimed his establishment was booked out from that night yeah right Carl and I bowed to the inevitable and left town we didn't want to become social ghosts like
we'd seen Mary Skelton become just last year when she'd been caught cheating we drove for 300 kilomet and started a new life together that didn't last long I know I may be speaking the bleeding obvious but when two cheaters shack up together there is no trust I'd never realized just how important trust was to a relationship until the evening I had to fight the urge to check his phone when he was in the bathroom by the time I finally worked up the courage to ask Dave if I could come back to town to visit the
kids one weekend he and they had replaced me he was a fine catch and once he was free the vultures being all the attractive bachelorettes and widows made their interest known by the time I got organized there was already a dainty set of shoes under Dave's bed my kids had a stepsister and were already calling another woman mom now too old to start another family all I can do is sit and contemplate the lonely life I have to look forward to from the perspective of Dave I lie here having glanced at the bedside clock 11:5
p.m. the soft breathing of Ruth lying next to me reminds me of our sexual marathon of the last 2 hours intimacy with someone new after 10 years with the one woman was good damned good we'd done some stuff that was borderline illegal yeah life is good if a little bizarre one wife cheated on me but before I could mourn the death of that marriage too much I was being seduced by someone younger better-looking and way more adventurous The Surreal last day of my old marriage still confuses the hell out of me maybe if I relive
it in my head for the 10,000th time it may finally make sense how did it go on the final day of my marriage Megan came home walked into the house and without saying a word just turned and walked away again I heard her car start up and drive away I was busy for a few minutes longer and by the time I rang Megan's cell it was engaged with no sign of her I began the kidss bedtime routine and they were quickly asleep not seeing their mother before they turned in sadly was a Not Unusual occurrence
I went into the kitchen and was just about to ring Megan again when the house phone rang the display showed an unrecognized cell number the next few minutes went something like this from memory hello David Brown speaking um hello Dave it's Carl I knew Carl of of course he'd started working with my wife some time ago I'd seen him at a couple of work functions and even been invited over to his housewarming what was his wife's name Rebecca Beck something like that very good-looking nicely shaped and a couple of years younger than Megan and I
Carl on the other hand I thought was a tosser arrogant full of himself and he looked down his nose at me a legend in his own mind the last person I wanted to talk to after after a hard day that's why my next words probably didn't come out as very friendly yes Carl what can I do for you what is it going to take he asked I didn't have a clue what he was talking about and said nothing in my confusion forcing him to continue if my wife finds out I've been having an affair with
Megan for the last 6 months or so she'll cut my balls off and I'll lose my kids so I'll be up front Dave what is it going to take to keep your mouth shut I don't remember dropping the phone and slumping to the floor as the devastating news that my loving wife had betrayed me in the worst way possible battered my Consciousness I'd been totally unsuspecting and couldn't believe it yet the pleading in Carl's voice was pretty convincing then my mind turned to the recently oft pondered problem why had my wife seemed to emotionally pull
away from me and the kids in the last half year or so nothing drastic just definitely there I would later realize that the first stage of grief denial lasted less than 30 minutes of floor time replaced by anger a blind rage to mask the pain of my loss I still had enough control to not take it out on Megan that way prison lay her lover was an entirely different thing though as soon as I heard Megan return I drove to the jerk's house and with all the anger I possessed punched him fair and square the
feel of bone and cartilage breaking under my fist made me smile even now Carl's forced confession in his loung room dripping blood was completely unnecessary for my education but necessary for his wife the release of anger allowed me to return home and calmly tell Megan to bug off as I listened to my bed partner lightly snore I realized I was no closer to solving the mystery than I was the last hundred times I'd tried to work it out why had Carl swn the seeds of his own marriage's destruction by confessing to me when I was
clueless I couldn't help thinking again that Megan's strange behavior that night by coming in from work then leaving again without a word had something to do with it all once again I replayed that evening in my head I'd cook dinner like always confirmed Megan would be late so sat and ate with the kids chatting away as we did then started to clear up Jillian complained that she had a sore spot in her mouth I grabbed a torch turned back her bottom lip and saw the ulcer going to our first aid cupboard I grabbed the tube
of Bona and one of those individually wrapped cotton swabs opened both smeared one onto the other and used the cream for the purpose it was designed for absolutely nothing to do with the mystery at hand bugger I'm beginning to suspect I'll never know turning on my side I inserted my arm under the Sleeping Beauty's head and spooned her gently kissing the back of her neck she pressed into me and purred a little forget the mystery life is good and so we've reached the end of today's story was it what you expected or did it take
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