Fall For You: A Reverse Grump Romantic Comedy (A Season's Detour, Book 2) by Hayleigh Sol

Author:Hayleigh Sol [Sol, Hayleigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hayleigh Sol
Published: 2021-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“Mom?”

The woman who’d raised me‌—‌on her own after Dad split when I was fifteen‌—‌the woman I thought had been the victim of a trashy, family‌–‌destroying affair all these years, crossed her arms over her chest and huffed out a breath. She was back to staring at the counter.

“Bailey, you have to understand. Your father and I were only happy for a brief period of time after we got married. We were so young and we both had these ideas about what marriage would be like. I’d say that we should’ve waited until we were older, dated other people, but then we might not have you and Dustin.”

“You haven’t answered me, Mom. Did you cheat on Daddy?”

A frustrated glance flicked my way; I hadn’t called my father “Daddy” since he’d walked away from his family.

Had there been a reason for him leaving that I’d never been privy to?

“There was a man I worked with when you kids were little. It was just a stupid thing, a brief fling that didn’t mean anything.”

The cheater’s creed.

“Did Dad know?”

Her shoulders shifted and she wasn’t quite meeting my eyes. “He never said but I’m sure he suspected. It was‌…‌very clear that our marriage wasn’t what we expected it would be.”

“So he might not have known, and you never told him you’d cheated?”

She frowned and opened her mouth, possibly to dispute the way I’d phrased it‌—‌without sugar‌–‌coated words like “fling”‌—‌then pressed her lips together in a flat line.

“Bailey, the world’s not always black and white, you know.”

“Of course I know that. But what about right and wrong? What about marriage vows?”

I couldn’t decide which was more shocking ‌–‌ the fact that my mother had cheated first, or that she didn’t seem to be the least bit remorseful about it. Had Dad known? Had he been too afraid to confront Mom and discover the awful truth? Had he been heartbroken but kept it to himself? Was that what had driven him into Virginia’s bed?

But, no, I’d never believe that two wrongs made any of this right.

In my book, there was no forgiveness for infidelity. Not that he’d asked for it. He’d run out on his marriage vows and his children as if his ass had been on fire. And married Virginia two lousy months after his divorce was finalized.

Mom finally met my gaze, slumping as she leaned her hip against the cabinets. “I don’t know what to say, honey. I wasn’t perfect. Neither was your father. But you’ve never been married. You don’t know what it’s like, the pressure of committing to one person for the rest of your life. Especially when you start to suspect that person isn’t the right one. That you made a terrible mistake and now you’re‌…‌stuck.”

Head shaking, I still couldn’t believe what I was hearing. “And instead of taking responsibility for the mistake you’d both made, instead of counseling or working on whatever was wrong in the relationship‌—‌hell, instead of getting a divorce‌—‌cheating on each other was the better solution?”

“See, this is why I never wanted you to know.

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