"I've done everything and still you're not happy to have me as your wife. What has happened to us Rick? You use to love me!? You really are in love with Madison aren't you?"

It had been a week since I'd been home and this turn for the best was seemingly too good to be true the more time went on. It was about 2am in the morning and I awoke for a restroom break where I heard the two of them discussing this matter.

"Angela get some damn rest it's far too early to be arguing about this crap, We've been discussing for the past 4 years I'm over it. We had one affair, stop allowing the past to ruin our future. For the last time I love you."

"You make it so hard for me to believe you. Rick I don't want to lose our family."

"And you won't but I don't know how much longer I can go on like this."

"Like this rick? Like what? What do you mean "like this"? Are you saying you want a divorce?"

"It's not what I want Angela."

"So you've thought of divorcing me? To be with her huh?"

"Are you crazy? Do you hear yourself? You have become obsessed with this bull shit!"

"Obsessed? Now I'm crazy for accepting the bastard child you brought into our lives and being reminded day after day that I'm supporting and living under the roof with the teenage girl you've  brought into our marriage!?"

As Angela said those words, there was a long pause. Even I was shocked, I should've known it wouldn't have been long before she told the truth. I sighed to myself awaiting the next spoken words while standing in the dark hallway.

"Yeah I know all about it rick." Angela's voice broke and I could imagine the tears streaming down her face as she tried her best not to sob. "I went threw your fuckin email, You had a Dna test done, just to prove what we already knew. And now I'm reminded of it everyday. —you know the only reason I accompany you on these fucking trips is because I don't trust you and I don't want to lose you all at once. Can you just imagine how I feel smiling and sharing the same home with the woman you had an affair and child with. She eats the dinners I prepare as if Nothing ever happened. Neither one of you were honest enough to come to me. So yeah—- you don't know just how obsessed and stupid I am about this. Rick you know I can't afford to live on my own and I wouldn't want to experience the pain of an ugly divorce." She exhaled deeply, breaking down. "Our kids are even the same age. I'm humiliated, I'm hurt, and I'm scorn."

She repeated in a softer tone threw her sobs, "—I'm scorned rick."

Standing there in that moment I knew why my back and guard had still been up in this very instance, tears were unexpectedly rolling down my cheeks as I quickly wiped them away realizing just how hurt she was. I willingly began this affair with Rick so that alone was my fault, but what he had done to me was his alone and I didn't even know how to explain it without looking like a liar.

"I'm sorry." Rick mumbled.

"Sorry?" She sighed in a shocked voice. "Sorry won't fix this rick, sorry won't fix this at all by far. I hate her, I despise that child that I should love so much. Although I would never harm that beautiful baby girl it's a process for me to begin accepting her, but I will not..." the vibrations in her voice strengthened. "I will not stand by and be humiliated, You need to wake up and realize that what she's done to Kamron she can do to you. She's not innocent by far, I don't even believe that damn defense story and as my husband I don't expect you to believe it either." There was a long pause where I felt like my heart pounding against my chest could be heard aloud. "When we leave here, if... we leave here as a married couple, I don't want her to leave with us. I want to start over, I want us to be a family again even if it means adding one. We can move away we can start brand new even get counseling, but I don't ever want to see her again. Rick we made a union and we have too much on the line for you to fuck this empire we've built up. Do the right thing and fix our marriage."

Her words ran threw me deeply like a knife cutting and it wasn't just the surface. I nearly couldn't believe my ears, I should've known she wasn't to be trusted and after this I don't think Rick could be either.