A Wife's Fall part two
By
Soul71
Thanks WAA01 for the edits.
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---Betty---
There I stood in the window of my sister's home waiting for the man I love and yet hurt so deeply by my stupid, selfish decision. I would have thought Wane would have been there before we arrived back with the groceries for our own little cookout. Looking down at my phone, wondering if I should just call him, shaking my head. If Wane gave his word he would be there, even if he didn't like me at the moment.
"Betty?" Turning my head as my sister stood behind me. "What are you doing?"
"Waiting on Wane to get here," I said, turning my attention back out to their front yard. Placing my hand on the window pane hoping I could fix what I so stupidly took for granted.
"You do know he's out back with Bill and Jan right?" My head snapped to the left as the words left my sister's lips. "You're creeping me out sis," Celine said, backing away from me. Noting how her arms quickly pressed to her body as I ran past her like a mad woman. My hair whipped behind me as I raced for their back door. Flinging it open, inhaling the scent of fresh cut grass as it drifted on the air. Listening to Jan's voice as she spoke to her Uncle. My heart hammered in my chest as I heard the softness of my husbands voice.
Taking a dry swallow as I noted how the light of his eyes faded as those eyes of his fell upon me as I stepped out of their home. "Wane." His name left my lips as I stepped onto the pavers of my sister's patio. "Honey," I whispered as I stepped cautiously towards him. Glancing over to Jan as she slid out of the chair she was sitting in while Bill manned the grill. Smiling down at my niece as she took hold of my hand. Leading me to the chair she once occupied. I tried to keep my smile from showing as she whispered in his ear 'Talk to her'. Alright, it might be immoral for me to rely on a child to get my husband to speak to me, yet I'll take anything at this point in time. Reaching into my shirt, pulling out to the necklace that held his wedding ring that I had taken from the drawer of his nightstand. To show him, that to me, we were still married no matter how much I fucked up.
"Thank you, for coming here Wane," I said, my hand running along his forearm noting how his eyes glanced down at the ring.
"I told you why I came," Wane said, in a cold monotone voice.
"Still, I'm glad you're here," I said, smiling lovingly at him. Praying to the heavens that I can fix this. To get us back to the way things were before I had my brain fart. I knew if we didn't then I would lose out on the best thing I've ever had no matter how difficult Wane's personality could be at times.
"Uncle Wane?" Jan's voice softened Wane's features as she looked at the two of us.
"Hmm?"
"We're still going to the planetarium, right?" Jan asked, with a happy smile.
"And miss out on all those planets?!" I bit my lip as a smile touch his lips as Jan giggled.
"Can Aunt Betty come with?" Jan asked, innocently.
"I'd love to go with the two of you," I stated slipping my hand into his noting how he wasn't returning the comfort. However, it was the fact that I could still touch my husband and not have my hand tossed back into my lap that gave me hope... hope that I could still fix this. I knew it would take months if not years for him to open up to me once again. Nevertheless, I was determined not to go the way of divorce even if I had to watch my husband going out and dating women; I knew
that
would hurt me so much. I had set this into motion, I was the cause of this. I only had myself to blame for the heartache I would be facing in the coming days. Moreover, I was determined to see this through.
"You aren't going to leave my daughter hanging are you?" Bill asked from over his shoulder, as he flipped a burger. I could see how much Wane wanted to say no, to tell me to fuck off, let go of his hand. I knew my husband, and when it came to Jan he couldn't say no.
"Fine," Wane sighed.
"Yes!" Jan laughed happily as she threw her arms into the air. While I didn't voice my eagerness to spend time with Wane, I too was silently dancing a jig in my head.
"So when did you tell her you would take her?" I asked, looking over at Wane.
"Wednesday," Jan said, cutting in.
"But don't you have school then?" I asked, arching an eyebrow.
"No, it's a teacher workday," Bill informed me. "I do appreciate you looking after her," he said, turning to look at my husband.
"Don't worry about it," Wane said, offhandedly.
I wondered what was going on in his mind as those cold, calculating eyes gazed off into the distance. I hoped that whatever it was wouldn't lead him to finding himself in a jail cell or doing time. I knew my husband; I knew when he found me that day he wouldn't kill us right out. Wane wasn't a fool, or stupid. He would wait until enough time had past to exact his revenge. I just hoped it wasn't something that I couldn't over look.
"Betty come help me carry the food out to the table," Celine called out to me. Squeezing Wane's hand as I rose from my seat. My fingers ran along his shoulder before I went to help my sister to bring out the buns, condiments, and the pitcher of lemonade out to the patio table. Noticing how Celine couldn't look Wane in the eye as she and I set the table.
I kept my displeasure to myself as I noted how Wane pulled out his pack of cigarettes from his pocket. My eyes following after him as he walked across the back yard as the puff of smoke trailed after him. Watching how he stood with his back to us, I don't know what he was looking at yet in my mind I thought it was nothing in particular. I just hoped that when or if I could repair this damage I had caused, that I'd be able to get him to stop once again. I might have done something so stupid and selfish, yet it didn't mean I wanted to watch my husband die.
~~Wane~~
I was trying to keep my composure as I slowly drew on the cigarette between my lips. My mind wandered as I stared aimlessly at nothing in particular. Running through scenarios in my head to deal with the men who had defiled my home. The bed I once shared with my wife. Even if I do decide to take her back,
that
bed would never find it's way into my bedroom. Finding myself growing irate as every plan that formed in my head wound up with bringing far too much attention to myself. I knew if I was going to retaliate against those men, I had to have a solid alibi. My name could not be anywhere near what I was planning. After all, I do work for the police, and they do tend to look at those in the department far more closely if suspected of a crime. Then again, what I was planning and what was coming their way had to be air tight. I also knew I couldn't make Betty disappear; the husband was always the first one they look at, that's just common knowledge. However, I had other plans on making Betty suffer that didn't involve the police. Would it be immoral? Probably. Moreover, I don't have a problem with immorality.
My ears perked as I heard Jan's voice, sighing in my mind. I really did like Jan. It was my hope, if a psychopath like me could hope, that Jan would take an interest in the sciences. Science could use all the women it could garner. Without turning around as I heard the footsteps nearing.
"Wane?" I was curious as to why my jaw muscles clenched at the sound of my wife's voice. "I know I have no right to ask this of you. But please Wane, cut back on the smoking." I felt her hands lightly resting on my back.
"You're right, you don't," I said, plainly. "Or did you forget that the moment you broke our marriage vows?"
"I know honey," I felt her fingers curling around my shirt, "I can't ever take back what I've willingly done. To you, to us, to our marriage. Yet I don't want to see you die either!"
"Oh?" I mused as I peered over my shoulder at Betty.
"Please Wane, I know I fucked up majorly with us. That doesn't mean I want to watch you die slowly as those things take your life." I heard the pleading in her voice. Looking down as I felt my body betraying me. It would seem that my displeasure with my wife did not effect how my body reacted to how her body felt as she pressed her chest against my back. My mind flashed back to all the times I felt those breasts on my chest, my hands fondling them whenever we had sex. The way she would mew every time I teased those nipples. I cursed loudly in my head that no matter how furious I am at my so-called wife that my body was hers. Hers to entice for something to rise as given how my cock was filling with blood at that moment. After all it has been days since I've had sex or been this close to Betty. "Just please Wane, quit now before it's too late. I might have lost your trust, your love, that singular place in your heart right now. That does not mean I don't love you. I know I have fallen from your eyes. That you must think horrible things about me. Things that I have rightfully earned to be called. But I am still your wife." I looked down as her arms wrapped around me. "For however long I remain to be."
"Hey, you guys hungry?" Bill's voice filled the air. "Come and eat if you are."
"Wane come have lunch with me. I would really enjoy sharing a meal with you," Betty said, lightly running her hands along my chest. "It's been awhile since we've done that."
I tried not to look at Betty's sister given that it was her who set my marriage towards the sharp rocky shore, yet when my eyes did find their way to her, her head would instantly drop, her gaze never meeting mine. I chalked that up to the guilt she must be feeling. Not that I cared. If her sister and I went the way of the dodo, if I never saw Celine again, it would be too soon.
"Okay, I admit these are better," Bill spoke causing me to freeze in midbite.
"Hold on, I think I need to get this on tape," I said, casting Jan a smile as she giggled and Bill rolled his eyes.
"Very funny," Bill replied shaking his Hebrew National hot dog at me.
"But Daddy these are better," Jan said, with a chipper tone.
"Don't you go joining his side now," Bill scolded in a false stern voice.
Looking down as I felt Betty's hand on my leg. "It's nice to see this side of you again," Betty whispered in my ear. Feeling it inching higher, "And this side of you as well," she said heatedly as her hand lightly patted my growing bulge. "I know we have a lot to work out, but to know this still rises for me..."