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She was going alright until the last bit. I laughed. It was that comical. "You haven't learned have you Ash. I don't care about Grant. He was dead to me a long time before they put him in the ground."
"But why... why can't we try."
"I have moved on, I gave you plenty of chances Ash, I begged you to come home, you chose him ahead of me. I now have a lady and she means a lot to me. That weekend I came down there, if you had come home then, we might have been able to get past it, but not now."
"Rob it was just sex, just six months out of our lives, we could have the rest of our lives together, we could still grow old together."
"It wasn't just the sex Ashley; it was the lies, if I hadn't gone down there that weekend I would never have known would I... You would have kept me in the dark."
"I didn't want to hurt you, god I thought about how to tell you, Grant pleaded with me to come clean but I didn't want to hurt you."
"Well you went the wrong way about it, sorry Ashley but it's over."
"I have a letter here from Grant, can I give it to you, he wanted you to read it?"
"Rip it up Ashley."
"I will hold it and hope that one day you will be able to forgive us, when you are ready I will bring it to you."
"Keep it, I don't want it."
"I am sorry for everything Rob, I do love you."
"Too little to late Ash, have a good life."
- COMMENTS
Anonymous13 days agoMy wife and I are in our later 60s, with adult children, and grandchildren. One of our activities is reading the better authors here such as Richard Gerald, George Anderson, and lesser but equally good luminaries such as Laptopwriter and this author - Cagivagurl. Then we compare and contrast notes and views. This author's stories are favorites of discussion. Here, for example, we differed but in a subtle way. My reaction is that the husband was not hard ass enough. I would have ghosted both her and "her" daughter, the latter for her collusion over the mother's affair. But my wife differed in that she thought the husband was even better in getting his revenge. 'The best revenge is living well', and to him that meant moving on and not sharing his life with either wife or 'her' daughter except tangentially as required. Instead, he didn't forgive, but instead just got a new, better life and marginalized them, not sharing his new happy existence and family. To my wife's mind, that was the ultimate revenge. And I ended up seeing her point. To rage is to validate their actions as caring, but to simply move on and marginalize them is to say he didn't need them for his happiness. My chosen female companion is wiser than I. Still lovingly married after 41 years.
Anonymous18 days agoWell written. But Ashley clear has a mental disorder. Her delusional way of handling and compartmentalizing, plus her lack of remorse, lack of empathy for her husband, and her refusal to go back that fateful day (or soon thereafter) is just plain weird. Of course there was no chance for a reconciliation. Even the author knew that and wrote it that way. She chose Grant over her husband for six months. Even after the discovery. Ashley is a broken person. Why it took 25 years to show up is the real mystery.
Anonymous2 months agoAll things said,Its your MCs fault for allowing her to go without having divorce papers handy for her to sign.If that would not have emphasized the NO to her going,she was not worth keeping.
No husband would allow a wife to leave home/marriage for that distance/time or for any reason. Actions are louder than words.By you presenting the opposite ruined the story.. ..realism,realism,realism is the life blood of fiction...JzK..
Anonymous2 months ago"I'm not living with him; I am looking after a dying friend."
"Nursing doesn't require sharing a bed or sex."
"Jesus you can be a nasty bastard when you want."
====> One of CVG's more delusional cheating wives. Ashley definitely has a mental disorder. How that flared up unseen for 25 years is strange. Grant is an evil and selfish asshole. He knew after the reveal that he was killing his friends' marriage. An in the end, Ashley is alone in a vinyard, with an estranged son, and no love left in her life, still convinced that what she did was valorous.
