"So, you've been with another boy?"
She nodded, eyes downcast, standing before me in her short dressing gown, hair still damp from her bath.
I sighed, and got up from my chair, and walked over to her. She was silently shedding tears, her shoulders vibrating with the effort to keep quiet, but her cheeks soaked and drops falling from her chin onto the dressing gown.
"There's no point in you crying now, is there, dear?" I said, then lifted her face to look at me.
"I don't want to lose you..." She said, tears running down her face.
"I don't want to lose you either, but how can I live with you knowing that you don't love me, and only me. I can't handle you being with another man, girl! Dammit, we're married!"
"I am so sorry, It was an accident, It won't happen again, I promise." She replied, but I roughly pushed her out of the way and stormed out of the living room. She followed me into the den, where I slumped in my favorite chair and just looked at her, feeling angry, hurt, and totally betrayed.
She stood in the doorway, unsure of what to do, and we stayed that way for about fifteen minutes, before she turned and went into our bedroom, where she collapsed on the bed, sobbing brokenly.
It tore at my heart to hear her so sad, but that feeling was overwhelmed by my anger at her affair. In our four years of marriage I had plenty of opportunity to have an affair with my female staff, and our house keeping staff. In Malaysia it was almost expected that the female staff of a wealthy businessman were at his sexual beck and call. But I had never strayed. I didn't want to, and now ... she had strayed.
I got up and walked out of the den, following her cries and sobs until I entered the main bedroom, I firmly closed the door and walked to the edge of the bed, where she had sat up, watching me with her tear-stained face.
"What am I supposed to do? You have shamed me! You had an affair with one of my staff! You have dishonored me in front on my entire workforce. How can I operate my business now? You tell me!"