Misadventures of a Good Wife by Meredith Wild & Helen Hardt

Author:Meredith Wild & Helen Hardt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943893522
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

Chapter Eleven

Kate

I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around the fact that I’d slapped my husband—the man who meant everything to me. I’d never done anything like that before—never even thought about it, no matter how much he was impersonating an asshole—and to do so when our lives were upended as they were…

But yes. He’d had it coming, calling me naïve.

I might be ignorant of the facts—and that was his fault, not mine—but naïve? He’d called me innocent two days ago during our first walk on the beach. Funny, it hadn’t affected me the same way, then. Now I knew he was deliberately withholding information, and as much as I loved my husband, I couldn’t forget that. If I was going to stay with him—and God, I wanted to be with him more than I wanted my next breath—he’d have to offer up all the facts. My heart was strong, but I could no longer keep my head out of this equation.

Price interrupted my thoughts. “I’m only trying to protect you, Kate.”

I opened my eyes. “Why not let me help protect you? Protect us? Tell me what we’re dealing with. The whole truth. Let me in. I feel so helpless, Price.”

“Baby—”

“We took vows, remember? For richer, for poorer. In sickness and in health. For better or for worse.”

“You don’t understand.”

“Would you stop saying that?” I balled my hands into fists. “The only reason I don’t understand is because you’re not leveling with me. For better or for worse, Price. If this is worse, I promised to help you through it.”

“This goes so far beyond worse.”

I shook my head. “Doesn’t matter. Just because we didn’t foresee how bad something might get doesn’t invalidate the vow I made to you. You made the same promise to me.”

“I did, and I’m trying to keep that vow. I’m trying to protect you.”

I gave him an angry glare. “Wrong.”

He jerked his head. “What?”

“If you were truly trying to protect me, you would have stayed hidden, let me live out my life safely in New York. As soon as you involved Chelle and me in this, protection ceased being your goal.”

“That’s not true. I—”

I placed two fingers over his full lips. “I didn’t mean to sound quite so harsh. I’m not blaming you. I’d have done the same thing. The thought of a life without you…even if it meant protecting yours…”

I could accuse him of being selfish for wanting me with him, but it didn’t ring true. My life during the past year, without Price, hadn’t been a life at all. If I’d thought, for one second, that I could be with him again, I’d have risked everything. Yes, I would have done everything I could to keep him safe, but in the end, still knowing that the safest thing would be to stay hidden, I’d have taken the risk.

That’s what he had done. He’d chosen a life with me over my ultimate protection. I didn’t begrudge him that—though maybe I should have—but he had to understand the reality of it.

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