Dinner that night was great, and the sex after dinner was even better, so much so that Harold forgot his concerns regarding Nicole, at least in the meantime.After they finished having sex, Harold excused himself to answer some emails on the porch, while Diane relaxed in the room, basking in the euphoria of the lovemaking bout that she and her husband had just had.Suddenly, a call came in from Nicole on Diane’s phone, and while Diane was overjoyed to hear from her friend at first, she soon noticed that Nicole’s voice sounded a little strange.“Babe, what’s wrong? You sound a little down. Is anything the matter?” Diane asked, at which point Nicole sighed heavily into the phone.“I wanted to ask you something.”“Sure, you know you can ask me anything at all.”“Okay, are you happy with the trip? Like is Harold treating you well and all that?”“Of course, I am, and he's treating me well. Harold is a gentleman. You know that. Is that what’s troubling you? That Harold isn’t treating me wel
The rest of the trip was ruined for Nicole because of the conversation that she had overheard, but somehow, she managed to pretend like everything was alright, while she thought of what to do.The first thing she did as soon as they got back from vacation was to hurry over to Nicole’s place, because of how down she was. Nicole never failed to lift her spirit whenever she was down.“I got you your favorite perfume,” Diane told Nicole after they had exchanged pleasantries, handing the perfume over to her.“Thank you, babe. You indeed are the best. Listen, I can’t help but notice that you look subdued. I hope my friend didn’t turn out to be right, after all, because I can't think of any other reason why you’ll look so down after just coming back from a romantic getaway.” Nicole said with great interest.“I …” Diane began, but she trailed off as fresh tears gathered in her eyes. She had cried a great deal in the past several days.“Diane! Is Harold truly cheating on you?!”“I … I’m not ex
Throughout that night, Diane hardly slept a wink. She did not deserve any of this … a cheating husband and wicked in-laws. No woman deserved such a combination.By the time Harold woke up, she was wide awake and waiting for him to wake up, because she was determined to talk before he left for work.“We need to talk, Harold.” She told him. He glanced at her, probably surprised by the fact that she had called him by his name, instead of an endearment.“Good morning babe. Unfortunately, I’m very late for work already. I overslept. You should have woken me up. I need to go, but we’ll talk when I get back, okay?”“It can’t wait. It’s important,” Diane told him tightly, but he was already getting up and heading in the direction of the shower.Once he got out, he put on his clothes in a hurry, gave her a quick kiss on the cheeks, and hightailed it out of the house, promising her that they would talk as soon as he got back from work.It occurred to Diane that her marriage had probably come to
Husband and wife remained motionless, just staring at each other in shock for what felt like an eternity.Diane’s ears were ringing, and her head felt very heavy as she tried to come to terms with what she was seeing. Harold was the one who snapped out of it first.“Oh, my goodness! Diane … babe … what are you doing here?”Diane heard his panicked voice as though from afar away, but she couldn’t focus on it because she was suddenly feeling very faint.Within seconds, darkness enveloped her and she slid almost gracefully to the ground in a dead faint.By the time she came to, Harold’s crying face was the first thing that came into her line of vision.“Oh, thank goodness. Babe, you’re okay. I was so worried.” He breathed, cradling her head against his chest as his whole body shook with emotion.“W … what happened? Where am I?” Diane asked in confusion, her thoughts cloudy for the moment.“We’re at Nicole’s place. She called me and told me that you showed up at her house, saying you had
“Oh, my goodness! I’m done for! I can't believe that Diane found out about this. I never meant for her to find out. Did you see her face? She was so broken. Oh, God!” Harold breathed after Diane left, pacing Nicole’s room and grabbing his keys, but Nicole blocked his path.“It’s for the best, Harold, baby. At least now, you can be with someone who can give you children and who loves you so much as well. Remember that your family doesn’t even like her in the first place.” Nicole purred in a way that she no doubt thought was sexy, taking his face in her hands and placing a gentle kiss on his lips.“Move out of my way. I need to go plead with my wife and make sure that she’s alright.” Harold told her, pushing her none too gently out of his way.As far as he was concerned, now that Diane had found out about his affair with Nicole, there was no point coddling her any longer.“Hey! Watch it!” Nicole said angrily, but Harold was out the door already.On his way home, he kept wondering how on
Diane had never felt so down in her entire life. Sleep eluded her, and anytime she finally managed to catch some sleep, she was always plagued by nightmares in which she caught Harold and Nicole going at it like animals.It had been five days since she caught them together, and Harold hadn’t stopped blowing up her phones with calls, which she ignored, while Nicole didn’t bother to reach out to her at all.Each time Diane remembered the hatred in Nicole’s voice when she told her that she intended to fight for Harold, she shuddered in fear and revulsion, unable to believe how someone could hide who she truly was, or what was going on in her mind that well, and for so long.“How are you feeling? Are you crying again? I brought you some food. It’s your favorite, and it’s really delicious, so do eat up. I know it’s easier said than done, but I wish you would stop crying on account of those two. They don’t deserve your tears.” Lucas’s voice came, and Diane looked up to see him standing by h
“Take it off.” She told Nicole in a very cold tone, her voice tight with anger.“Who do you think you are to come in here and give orders to my guest? Get out of here right now! I won’t tell you twice.” Mrs. Collins told Diane, getting up from her seat.Nicole for her part, had a small, mischievous smile playing at the corners of her mouth, and she did no such thing as taking off the dress.Instead, she maintained eye contact with Diane, raised her hands, and adjusted the dress by pulling it down a little so that it exposed her ample cleavage even more than it was already doing.“Did you hear me? I said take off my fucking dress!” Diane yelled angrily, tears of anger and pain flowing down her face, even though she had promised herself that she wasn’t going to cry, at least not while she was here.“And if I don’t, you pathetic crybaby? What are you going to do if I don’t take it off? It’s not like you used your money to buy it anyway, so technically, it isn’t yours. You’re a lazy, jobl
Keith Adams was having a terrible, terrible day, and it just got worse. He stared in disbelief at the woman who proclaimed herself to be the love of is life, Helen, who was on being rammed on all fours by some guy.Today was one of the worst days that he had ever had. First of all, this morning, his car had blown a tire out of the blues while he was running late for a very important meeting.Then to top it off, the meeting didn’t exactly go well … no surprise there. When he got out of the meeting, he saw that he had several missed calls from Helen, so he returned them, but she didn’t pick up the phone.In the end, he had concluded that she was busy, and so he drove home. Yeah, she was busy quite alright … she was very busy getting fucked by some somewhat familiar guy … in his bedroom and in his bed of all places.“Are you freaking kidding me?” He asked in an icy voice, anger brimming in his chest until he felt like he was going to explode from the force of it. The two of them flew apar
Diane stared at the two old lines on the pregnancy test strip that showed that it was positive in utter disbelief.She had prepared for this possibility as much as she could in the time it took her to get back home from the hospital, but it still came as a rude shock to her.What on earth had her life come to? Here she was about to get divorced, with her soon to be ex-husband making a mockery of her all over the news for everyone to see, only to find out that she was carrying his child?Tears came unbidden to her eyes at this thought. No wonder she was always crying at the slightest inconvenience. Her hormones were working overtime.A few days later, the blood test was ready, and when she got it, there was no denying it any longer. She was indeed pregnant, and she had to make up her mind on what to do, as the pregnancy was advancing.It only took a few days for her to decide that she wanted to keep the baby.She had always wanted children, and after the struggle she went through befor
As the days passed, Diane's heart began to hurt less and less whenever she thought about Harold and Nicole being together. In fact, she tried her best to block them out of her mind.After that night when she called the cops on them, Harold reached out to her to apologize for his horrid behaviour via text, because she refused to take his calls.He had tried to reach out a few more times after that, and then he had abruptly ceased trying to communicate with her at all. She was relieved, to say the least.She was never going to go back to him, especially not with Nicole still in the picture, so there was no point in prolonging the inevitable. She had sent him fresh divorce papers, and was now waiting for him to sign them.Then one afternoon, while she was scanning through job applications so that she could apply for a job, she got another rude shock that had her questioning if she was truly getting over Harold and Nicole’s betrayal like she thought she was.She was alone at home, and the
“That’s no way to behave, Harold. What if the child is truly yours?” Mr. Collins asked his son, who frowned.“I don’t care, dad.”“You should care. If you decide to do dumb things, then you should be ready for the consequences of your actions. I don’t trust this young lady one bit either, but she seems to be sure about what she’s saying. Besides, I can see a certain resemblance between you and the child. So you’re going to take a paternity test. If the child turns out to be yours, you’re going to man up and be responsible for him.”“What if I don't want to have anything to do with her? I swear this is a trap. Nicole got pregnant on purpose.”“Just listen to yourself talking like a man child. Did I also force you to not wear a condom when the both of us were going at it like animals that night, and every other night that we fucked each other since then? Is thought you claimed you liked it raw.” Nicole asked angrily.“Jeez! Nicole, I don’t want to hear stuff like that.” Evelyn said, laug
The minute Nicole and Kevin entered into the grand living room where everyone was seated and awaiting their arrival, Mrs. Collins and Evelyn released loud, identical gasps of disbelief as they stared at the child.Mr. Collins and Harold, on the other hand, controlled their expressions more, so that Nicole couldn't guess what they thought, although she could see interest in Mr. Collins' eyes.“Good evening, everyone. Thank you for honouring my invitation.” Nicole said, bending and placing Kevin, whom she carried in her arms, on the floor.Then she gave him a tender kiss on the cheeks and forehead as though she was the most loving of mothers, before surreptitiously nudging him to remind him of what he was supposed to do.“Hello. It’s nice to meet you all.” The little boy said, bowing as Nicole had instructed him to do.“Oh, my goodness! Oh, my goodness. What a cutie! Is he the surprise you told us you have for us, Nicole? Is this what I’m suspecting it is? Please say that it is!” Mrs. Co
THE ‘WEAPON’“The time has come!” Nicole thought to herself fiercely as Evelyn drove her and Harold home from the police station after they had to spend the night there.She could be mistaken, but she thought that she might have seen some regret on Diane’s face tonight while Harold was making a spectacle of himself at her parents’ house.The last thing she needed was for Diane to decide that she wanted to forgive Harold, because she knew that Harold would go running straight back into her arms, and most likely, even cut off all contact with her, Nicole, to make Diane happy.She couldn’t afford for that to happen, so yeah, it was indeed time to apply even more pressure on Harold. After Evelyn dropped her off at her apartment, she began the process of preparing for the impromptu journey that she had to make.Three days later, she returned from her journey, and on the evening of the day she got back, she placed a call to Harold’s mother.“Good afternoon, Mrs. Collins. I’ve got a wonderful
While Diane was still trying to get Harold to leave, an angry Nicole pulled up to the driveway in one of Harold’s cars and stormed out of the car to confront him.Nicole had waited in vain for Harold to come home all evening, but when it was clear that he had no intentions of returning at the usual time, she called him, and he told her that he was swamped with work, so he was going to be late.After a while, she called again, and then kept calling at intervals until he stopped answering her calls and even turned off his phone.She would have been worried that he was cheating on her, or even worse, was probably out begging that self-righteous Diane to take him back, but the tracker that she had placed in his car showed that he was still in the office, truly.However, around midnight, he left the office, and to her horror, she saw that he was headed in the direction of Diane's parents’ house, which was where she guessed that Diane had gone to stay after she got kicked out of Harold's hou
By the time she came to the next day, Harold’s worried face and bloodshot eyes that showed his lack of sleep and guilt, were the first things that came into her line of vision.“Wh … where am I?” She croaked out in a voice that felt like it belonged to a stranger instead of her.“Oh, my goodness, babe. I’m so thankful you’re alright. You scared the hell out of me. You’re in a hospital. I found you unconscious on the floor when I got back from work. You fell down the stairs. Maybe you had a dizzy spell that caused you to lose consciousness.” Harold told her.He looked terrified, and his eyes begged her to corroborate his story, or more accurately, his lie. She didn’t say anything after that. While in the hospital, she learned that she had lost her baby, and was devastated. Harold kept pleading with her to forgive him for what he had done, but of course, he didn’t allow anyone to know that he did it, and Diane didn’t tell either.“I didn’t mean to hurt you, babe. You know I’ll never hur
It was a few weeks after her fairy-tale wedding, and Diane couldn’t be happier with her life.She had a loving husband, and she had their first child growing inside her. Everything was going well with her pregnancy, and even though she still had months to wait, she couldn’t wait to meet her unborn child.She missed her best friend, Nicole, with whom she had grown up and shared so many experiences a lot, especially because it was difficult to contact Nicole nowadays.On the rare occasions that Diane could reach her, Nicole always claimed that she was very busy with her studies, and that she also had to work, so she never had time to call or talk, but Diane assured her that she understood.However, things soon began to stop being rosy for Diane as Harold began to come back home later and later every night, claiming he was swamped with work as an excuse.At first, Diane tried to be understanding, but after a while, it became difficult to remain understanding.Before she got pregnant and g
The footsteps stopped after a while, but Diane was too petrified to relax. She tried to remember if she had locked the door, but she couldn’t remember.She had sat on the couch earlier that evening, watching her favourite series to take her mind off her sad thoughts and while away time, and somehow, so much time had passed.Before she could gather her thoughts and remember, whoever was out there pounded the door hard several times.Diane jumped about a foot high, and snatched up her phone, ready to call the police, when Harold’s drunken voice came.“Diane! Open up! I know you’re in there.” He yelled, slurring his words.Although she was mad at him for scaring her so badly, Diane nearly sagged in relief when she realized he was the one outside, and not some burglar or something.“What are you doing here, Harold? Go away before I call the cops on you. You have no right to sneak up on me like this, especially at this time of the night.” Diane said loud enough for him to hear.“Please, bab