Doubts

“Are you suggesting that Steve might become violent towards me?” Ava was asking, her tone sounding a bit worried.

“He dares not! However, I’m just saying if such a thing were to happen, then you can count on me to help you.”

“Oh, okay,” she said, mulling all that he had said over.

Derek wouldn’t understand, but she was glad … fiercely glad to know that Steve might be cheating on her. She supposed it was weird of her to feel that way, but the fact remained that she was a coward who didn't want to have to face him and tell him that she was no longer interested in the relationship.

She had a feeling that he would not like that one bit, and now, what Derek had hinted about Steve being violent worried her.

She had been suspecting that he was cheating on her for a while now, because, first of all, their sex life was nothing to write home about, and frankly, she didn’t care. They hardly ever had sex, and she knew without a doubt that he was getting it elsewhere.

So she was biding her time an