A Shattered Marriage (His Deadly Betrayal Series Book 1) by C.M Santoro

Author:C.M Santoro [Santoro, C.M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C.M Santoro
Published: 2020-10-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine – Taking Control

Sitting idle and enduring, Bill had done Julie no good. The fights had grown old—a tired script without real motivation. None of it brought change or led to reachable expectations on either Julie’s or Bill’s end. The two rehearsed and ran their lines, never hearing what the other had to say, or maybe they listened to each other perfectly, and it was the inability to comprehend what each other’s words meant? Their emotions were mere muscle memory, inspired by the fabricated deep love and connection Julie needed to believe in. Hardly something worth fighting for. Julie stood in the bedroom doorway, in her baggy nightwear, and sighed. The answer was obvious but fighting it wouldn’t change it.

She strolled to the closet and pulled out her travel bags. An odd physical lightness refused to allow the weight of the situation to tamper with her newfound bravery.

Julie hugged her clothing hanging in the walk-in closet and lifted them off the rail, then carried them into the guest room where she rehung them. Julie collected her things around the master bedroom and loaded them into her suitcases to make the quick trip down the hall. It wasn’t much, and it wasn’t far, but the separation felt real—a real first step to discontinuing something tragically toxic.

“Real cute,” Bill mocked from just outside the guest bedroom. “I thought we agreed we needed to talk, but then you go do this?” Julie kept her back to him as she put away more clothes into the dresser. “And exactly what is this?”

“This is the end of a very tiresome cycle.” She tucked a pair of jeans into the drawer and braced herself. Once she turned around, the potential to get sucked in would begin, and the thought brought tears to her eyes. She very much loved Bill, but love was a poor excuse to hurt. She turned to pull herself and close the distance between her and her husband. Julie wanted him to see her sincerity—to accept it because it made sense. He regarded her with the usual cocky half-smirk, showing his amusement with her child-like tantrum and I’ll-show-you rebellion.

“You know, once our problems started in the beginning, I keep telling myself that one day you’d show back up as the person you had portrayed yourself as. Because to me, you were this magnificent thing in such a horrible time in my life, and you walked through that time with me.” Julie nodded for his approval. She needed him to join her narrative; if not, it would only lead to the usual hostility. “But you keep just showing up as the same old Bill who seems tired of me, and in the same way, I keep showing up as the wife who knows her place when that’s not who I am at all.”

Bill crossed his arms and forced air through his nose. “And you think this is how to fix that?” Bill nodded to her belongings that littered the bed and floor.

“No,” Julie shook her head.

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