189

ROMAN

I went back home feeling rejected, angry, stupid and hurt.

Even after what I'd seen, I still didn't want to believe that it was Eden, so I went outside to look really well.

I made sure to check all the things I knew about her and it was her. After almost a month of leaving the house and leaving me with our three kids, she had the guts to be here in another man's arms, kissing him.

I should have gone over there to speak to them but I couldn't bring myself to. I couldn't bring myself to look her in the eye and ask her why she did that to me. To us.

Why did she leave our kids and come all the way here? What was it she wanted that I couldn't give to her? Why did she feel the need to come to that man to give her happiness?

By the time I got back home, the kids had returned and that's what I'd been avoiding. I blinked away the hurt in my eyes and smiled as Ethan ran I to my arms

“Hey, little buddy. How was school today?”

How could she leave these beautiful kids? Or maybe it was me, ma