Chapter Forty Three

Daniel

I was spiraling out of control. There were no excuses this time. I had decided to spend time with my wife of free will. I needed to be there with her, feel her touch against my skin and hear her voice.

And maybe, it was due to the fact that I had finally met the real woman behind her gold digger facade. The woman leaning her back against my chest while the warm bubbling water lapped around our joined bodies, was surely someone new and exciting.

It felt as if I had met my wife for the first time since our marriage. She was slowly working her way into the empty space of my blackened heart and that made me restless. I didn't want that but it was already happening and I had to turn that raw, fragile feeling into something else. Lust and craving.

I turned her around in my arms, her small frame easily getting consumed within my embrace. I needed to get rid of the warm and fuzzy feeling starting to form in my heart every time she looked into my eyes. So, I did what I knew could cove