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The last comment made me angry. I managed to continue without raising my voice.
"That's rich coming from you," I said. "At least when Nicola gets home late she doesn't head straight to the shower to cover the fact that she's been working her arse off in a certain barristers bed."
It was only guess work based on what had come out on the day of the inquest, but the look on her face told me I had scored a direct hit.
"What are you talking about?" she asked. "Did she tell you that?"
"You told me, Julie. Ruined six years of your life, you said. We've only been divorced for five. That means he was having an effect on your life for a year before our divorce. Then someone mentioned your affairs with Miles, as in more than one. Put that together with the six months leading up to the day I threw you out. You started working late, and whenever you did you would go straight up to shower and change before you even kissed me hello. I realise now you were washing off the smell of sex."
"For five years you let me beat myself up about what I had done to you. The thing that really made me feel like shit was that you were totally innocent. You weren't innocent, though, were you? You were an adulteress. I was just looking in the wrong place and who knows, if our sex life hadn't dried up perhaps I wouldn't have been looking at internet porn in the first place."
"I'm sorry," I said. "For four of the last five years I've been trying to get us back together, but I got knocked back every time. Now I have someone who really loves me and I'm free to be with her."
I held up my hand to show her the empty ring finger.
"In spite of what I now know, I'll always be a friend to you. I have to do that for the sake of the girls. But that's as far as it goes."
With that I got up to leave. The look on her face was a mixture of shock, shame and anger. As I got to the door I turned to look at her again. I could see the tears running down her cheeks.
"Don't be so sad," I said. "You got off a hell of a lot lighter than Miles."
Her mouth dropped open and she brought her right hand up to cover it. I turned and walked out through the door.
- COMMENTS
Anonymous5 minutes agoAmazing. Nice twist on the roller coaster ending. (Yet, a promise is a promise, especially to a Royal Marine Sargeant?)
TrainerOfBimbos18 days agoI don't hate the ending, but I think you should have foreshadowed it more in earlier chapters. I wouldn't say it came out of left field, but you started heavily implying it only in this chapter and it was tonally quite different than the previous one. For instance, I think Nicola should have shown up way earlier and her and Greg should have had an "its complicated" relationship. Eventually Greg sees the light and dumps Julie. That's a good story. This one is like, maybe three quarters of the way to an exceptionally good one. Just a bit of tweaking.
rockdoctor6319 days agoThat was a great ending! Who does not tell their husband about a twin? She became more of a self centered bitch as the story goes on. It was amazing how quickly she files for divorce, you think Miles had something to do with that? Great story, I wish you would write more.
