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I forgot how insightful and direct Matty could be. It’s what made her a crack interviewer. She’s good at reading people and she’s got great instincts that she always listens to.
I’ve kept my own council when it comes to our marriage. Tyson only knows the true state of things because he was visiting us when everything fell apart.
Matty and I may butt heads, but I trust her with my life. After the way I left things with Marcel, I would kill for someone to talk to.
Someone removed from my life and someone who doesn’t think the sun shines out of Marcel’s ass.
I look down at my hands. I’ve never taken my ring off. But I do tonight. What’s next, I don’t know. But I need to figure it out.
I sit up and clap my hands together. “For this, we need a drink.”
“Well? Spill it.” Matty prods when our server walks away.
I can’t look her in the eye, so I keep my gaze trained on the drink in my hand. “We haven’t had sex in five years. Not since I discovered Marcel’s affair. It wasn’t his first, but it was the first one he was careless enough for me to find out about. She’s pregnant.”
“Are you serious?”
“Yes.” I turn to meet her gaze. What I’m about to say isn’t the kind of thing you confess without the courtesy of eye contact.
“She’s eighteen. And our nanny. I hired her last summer, and she ended up staying when school started. The kids love her. And so does my husband, apparently.”
Her eyes bug out. “He’s leaving you for her?”
I laugh humorlessly. “Oh no. Marcel wouldn’t leave me. His pride will never let him admit that he failed at anything. He won’t even acknowledge they had an affair.”
She frowns in confusion. “But…then, how do you know she’s pregnant?”
“She told me. After I caught them together, I fired her. I asked her to pack and leave and then I took the kids to the beach so they wouldn’t see her leave. She came down an hour after us and sat down next to me and told me that she was pregnant. She said he asked her to get rid of it, but she wants to keep it.”
“How do you know it’s his?” Her question is one I know I’ll get a lot, but it irritates me.
“I don’t. But why would she say it was?” I ask and wish I cared more.
“Because he’s a billionaire and she’s trying to get paid,” she returns easily.
“Not everyone does everything for money, Matty.”
She purses her lips and glances away, “Time will tell. What did you say? Did you slap her?”
“No. She?
?s a kid. I said I’d help her whatever she decided.”
She snorts a surprised laugh. “You seem awfully sanguine about all of this. Has he gotten someone pregnant before?”
“No, of course not,” I say right away and then slump in my seat. “At least… I don’t think so. I mean…I don’t know. He’s had other entanglements.” I admit.
“So, he’s a serial philanderer.” In typical Matty fashion, she gets right to the heart of it.
We sit in silence for a minute and I wonder what she’s thinking. This is hardly how I imagined my life turning out.
“I know I can’t stay with him. I just don’t know where to start. Also, he will fight me every step of the way…and if I’m honest, it’s that brawl I’m avoiding more than anything.” I groan and run a hand through my hair.
“I wish I could say that the last ten years had matured me emotionally, but ending relationships still isn’t my thing.”
I glance at her and shake my head in fond exasperation. “Don’t tell me you’re still doing that,” I say. She used to ghost on men all the time when we were in college. I thought it was funny, until she did it to me.
She ignores my jibe. “But... I can tell you that hot, anonymous sex in a city where you don’t know a soul, is a really good place to start. Unclog those pipes so you can think clearly, first.”
