Falling for Her by Margaux Fox

Author:Margaux Fox [Fox, Margaux]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

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I made up a story about thinking I saw something suspicious at the back of the carwash, so I stayed to watch, only it turned out to be nothing. My phone must have been out of signal when I got the 7 missed calls. The lies spilled from my lips so easily. And everyone believed me. All my years of honesty and hard work had given me a solid platform from which to lie from.

My lies carried on. Somewhere, subconsciously, I had made a decision to condone infidelity. My own infidelity.

I wanted Lyra and I didn’t care what I had to do or say to buy time with her. I lied at work. I lied at home. I took a sick day and spent it in bed with her. The rain lashed down outside her big windows and I felt cosy and warm in her bed. We had sex, she made cheese on toast in her underwear and a tight vest top and I watched her as she cooked. We ate it from a blanket nest on her big sofa. We watched Netflix, we had more sex. We Netflixed and chilled in every possible meaning of the phrase. I took an annual leave day when the sun shone and we went to the forest with a picnic and walked around a beautiful lake. We found a secluded area in the trees, laid our coats down and made out on the forest floor like lusty teenagers. Pine needles in my hair. Her fingers in my hair. I felt so alive.

Home life was the same as ever. As Simon said, we had an abiding love. A healthy marriage going through its own ups and downs. I often wondered if he suspected I was seeing someone else and dismissed it as a fling. Some expected part of a marriage that was just to be buried and ignored. As if it wouldn’t threaten the sanctity of marriage. As if it wouldn’t threaten the sanctity of us. When I was a child we played a dumb game called ‘Simon Says’. Where you basically are expected to do anything that Simon says in order to win the game. That a man called Simon is always right. I always wondered where it came from. I made vows to Simon when we married. But I never believed that everything that Simon said was right.

Lyra travelled extensively for work. A couple of days in Istanbul, a week in South America. When she was away she would text me plenty. We would sneak phone calls when we could. When she was home, we saw each other whenever possible. We stole moments when we could. Stolen hours from my home life. Stolen hours from my work life. She became my obsession and I was hers. I learned to live off very little sleep.

She invited me to Amsterdam with her. I told Simon I was visiting an old school friend. She went to business meetings while I had a lazy morning then met her for lunch near our tall canal side hotel.

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