Worst of all, despite their feminist upbringing, my mother-in-law was outraged that both her daughter's had fallen prey to a disgusting misogynist lothario like me.
My mother-in-law harangued Cheryl for demeaning herself, and all women, by allowing herself to be mounted like a bitch-on-heat. Of course, she didn't know that I regularly fucked my wife doggystyle, and that was how her beloved granddaughter, Alice, had been conceived.
It was all my fault. I was the archetypal patriarchal male chauvinist philanderer who enraged my mother-in-law's feminism.
What really condemned me in the eyes of my wife was that my tryst with Cheryl started in our daughter's nursery as she slept. That was unforgivable.
The next day my wife's parents collected her clothes and those of my daughter from our home.
Then I was left alone.
My wife never set foot in our home again, nor did I live with either my wife or my daughter again. Our marriage was over, and I had no-one to blame but myself.
Was Cheryl's sweet cunt worth it? No, definitely not.
I later learned that Cheryl also returned home that dreadful night. She couldn't withstand the constant berating from her mother and my wife for her moral failure in submitting to 'bestial sex' with me.
I'm not sure what my father-in-law said. His views were rarely listened to. He was usually treated with disdain as a submissive beta-male by his overbearing wife.
The episode reminded me of a rumour about my mother-in-law related to me several years earlier by a former colleague of hers. Apparently, she had a 4-year affair with the headmaster of the school where she taught. The headmaster liked to seduce young ambitious women teachers, especially if they were married. Cheryl was born during the affair leading to speculation about her paternity.
More fuel was added to the rumours when my mother-in-law was promoted shortly after Cheryl's birth. What made the rumour even more shocking was that her husband, my father-in-law, was also a teacher in the same school, so how could he have not known about his wife's affair?
My wife never mentioned this and I dare not raise it with her. If true my mother-in-law was not the paragon of middle-class virtue that she liked to portray, but rather a cheating slut and blatant hypocrite. I had tried to confirm Cheryl's parentage surreptitiously by checking her eye colour against those of her mother and 'father', but I struggled with this method. Only DNA tests could truly confirm if my father-in-law had been cuckolded by his harpy wife and then duped into raising another man's child.
Whatever the truth, my imagination ran wild with lewd images of my mother-in-law receiving a thorough fucking across the headmaster's desk. She must have regularly returned home with her pussy sodden with the headmasters 'sloppy seconds' for her husband to 'enjoy'. I wondered if this explained why she often treated her husband with such casual disdain. Was my father-in-law a passive cuckold? Was he aware of her regular cheating and the resulting pregnancy? Did he enjoy fucking his wife's well used pussy after her trysts? Did the alpha-male headmaster send my mother-in-law home to her beta-male husband well fucked with a baby in her womb to demonstrate his dominance? I would never know, but my pulse raced thinking about it.
In the coming weeks and months, I tried to apologise to my wife by phone, text, eMail, letter and in person, but to no avail. She initiated divorce proceedings and there was no going back.
Sometimes I was gripped with remorse when I realised that I had poisoned the well of our marriage by failing to control my lust, but my mother-in-law then delighted in pouring more poison into my wife's ear. From that point my marriage was doomed, and I had lit the fuse that destroyed it.
We eventually spoke through our lawyers. My wife wanted a divorce, and there would be no reconciliation.
Three months later I met Cheryl to compare notes on the fallout from that disastrous day. My wife was still not speaking to her despite grovelling apologies, and her mother was barely speaking either.
The good news was that Cheryl had reconciled with her fiancΓ©, but she also confirmed that there would be no reconciliation between me and my wife. We agreed to keep in touch.
Once I recognised that divorce was inevitable, I tried to make the split as harmonious as possible for the sake of my daughter, but my wife was determined to have her pound of flesh.
I agreed generous child maintenance payments and in return was awarded visitation rights to Alice. Gradually I realised that my ex-wife had no intention of honouring the visitation agreement. I would arrive at the appointed time to collect Alice to find no-one in, or our daughter was 'sick', or my wife disputed the agreed dates and times. The disputes and 'misunderstandings' dragged on and on. Only rarely did I see Alice.
After two years my lawyer advised giving up on court action to enforce visitation because the legal fees would bankrupt me. My ex-wife had won.
Within 12 months of our divorce my ex-wife married a local lawyer, an old boyfriend, and a year after that gave birth to her second child. Two more soon followed. She did well after our divorce and I can understand why she didn't want her scurrilous ex-husband having any contact with her new family.
One day in town my ex-wife stopped at traffic lights whilst driving a large SUV. As I crossed the road in front of her car our eyes met and I felt contempt radiating towards me. It was the last time that I ever saw her.
Although I no longer had direct contact with my daughter, Alice, Cheryl regularly sent me photos and news. I would always send Alice birthday cards, Christmas cards and presents direct to her home, although I doubted whether my ex-wife gave them to her, as I received nothing in return. Despite this, I was always meticulous in keeping my child maintenance payments up to date, and my ex-wife never rejected those!
Shortly after that last sighting of my ex-wife, and with little hope of contact with Alice, I decided to start life afresh in a town 260 miles from the wreckage of my marriage.
It was easy to transfer with my work and turned out to be a good place to start the next chapter in my life. Wherever the twists and turns of life took me, I always made sure to stay in regular contact with Cheryl who was my lifeline to Alice. I would meet Alice again, but that lay many years in the future.