In Medias Res by Yolanda Wallace

Author:Yolanda Wallace [Wallace, Yolanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Lesbian Romance
ISBN: 9781602821422
Google: WpedQAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1602821429
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2010-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“We have to talk,” I said.

“I agree, but can we talk over lunch? I’m starving.”

“What I have to say isn’t for public consumption. It shouldn’t be unexpected, but that doesn’t mean it won’t come as a bit of a shock.”

“That sounds ominous. What is it?”

I could see him steeling himself as if he were one of his patients preparing himself to receive bad news.

“There’s no easy way to say it so I’ll just say it.” I took a deep breath and spoke the words no wife ever expects to say. “I want a divorce.”

Jack sat down hard. He took a moment to gather himself. When he was able to speak, he was a great deal more composed than I would have been if the shoe were on the other foot. “Three questions immediately come to mind: why, how long have you felt this way, and is there someone else?”

I wanted to break it to him gently, if such a thing existed.

“You are everything I’m supposed to want.” I needed to explain the situation to him as well as myself. “I feel more comfortable with you than any man I’ve ever met. Even when I realized that my heart was somewhere else, I thought I could make it work, but I can’t. Jack, I’m—”

“Whatever you’re about to say, don’t. I love you, Syd,” he said, trying to reassure me—and himself. “We can work it out.”

“It’s too late for that.”

“What about this afternoon? That didn’t feel like good-bye. Not to me.”

“It did to me.” To me, it had felt like the final nail in the coffin.

“There is someone else, isn’t there?” He was trying to cast the blame elsewhere instead of placing it where it belonged: on me.

“It doesn’t matter.”

“It matters to me,” he said sharply. “It would help me understand why you keep pushing me away when all I want to do is help you. Were you—Are you having an affair?” His voice was tiny. Choked. As if the emotions he was fighting back were too much for him.

“No,” I replied. “One night is not an affair.”

It took him a moment to fully grasp what I’d just said.

“One—So you have—With who?” he sputtered. “And don’t try to tell me that it doesn’t matter. I can’t think of anything that matters more.”

“I never thought anything would happen between us. I thought we had missed our chance. But when I saw her—”

“Her?” he asked, jumping on the slip. “You cheated on me with a woman? Most men wouldn’t call that cheating. Unfortunately for you, I’m not most men. Who was she? That Marcy person? That would explain why she cleared out of here so fast, but please don’t tell me you were willing to throw away our marriage for a roll in the hay with someone who drives a souped-up tricycle for a living.”

“This isn’t about her,” I said. “It has nothing to do with her. She was a friend when I needed one, nothing more.”

“If you didn’t sleep with her, if

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