Right In Front Of You

Chapter 11 - It's Over

Shaun's POV;

Ever since Suzie had walked out of the house, all I could do was think about how much I had messed up. I loved my girlfriend, I wanted to be with her and no one else. I don't even know why I made the stupid mistake of taking another woman in to our bed; I had never been that careless in the past. My only excuse was that I had been feeling neglected by her.

Over the course of the year of her getting the building where she built the club to the moment when it had opened, she had become more and more like a stranger to me. There was always some kind of disaster needing her attention; it had gotten to the point where it truly felt like we never had anytime for one another and when she completely stopped the drugs, that seemed to put an even bigger rift between us.

I was left with so much free time on my hands, that she hadn't even really noticed the change in me, the way that I was hardly ever home during the day, and I always managed to get back to the house before her at night, showering and flaking in bed just before the sound of the engine to either the truck or the bike would filter up to the bedroom.

Our sex life was barely non existent; I was a healthy man, I needed to feel close to my woman but she was always so tired from the long hours that she was putting in that I had, had no option but to go looking elsewhere. The first time it happened had been right after I had been discharged from the Army after watching Tom, my best mate, die almost right in front of me, I had, had no option but to watch it happen. I needed support and comfort from Suzie at that point but she was so busy with the club that she barely had time to listen to me let alone comfort me.

I had been so sure that she would have figured it out, I was certain that I was busted but nothing, there had been no sign of her having a clue and once I realized that I could get away with it, I became addicted to the risk of it. Deep down I had always known that there would come a point when she would find out. I don't really know why I had expected her to react any differently to the way she had.

Suzie was a woman of high standards and if she didn't have trust then she didn't think that she had anything at all. But here I was angry with her because after all the time that we had been together, I thought that she would have at least given me a chance to explain but nothing, she had walked out the door and refused to even think about talking to me.

Every call I made to her cell phone was either rejected or it just rang out except for that one time she had talked to me earlier in the night and that hadn't gone the way that I had wanted it too. So I had walked over to Barry's house in the hope that I would catch her when she got back from the club.

What had met my eyes had, had me shrinking in to the shadows and hiding until the three people had headed in to the house. Suzie and Barry, which wasn't anything new; they were always together but they had a third man with them, stood to about six foot in height, he was built that much was obvious, multi coloured hair and a full length arm tattoo. The man had followed Barry and my girlfriend inside the house, where the door was locked behind them.

I stayed in the shadows for a little while quietly stewing over the fact that there seemed to be a new man in her life already. My face ached from where Barry had punched me earlier in the day when he had come around to the house to collect her stuff. My lips fat from where he had managed to split both of them with just one punch, the attack had lasted less than a few moments but within that few moments he had managed to cause enough damage, just like he had promised he would when he had warned me, right after Suzie and I had gotten together.

After a while of sulking in the shadow of the trees that surrounded the property I had quietly moved towards the window where the curtains were lying open a tiny sliver giving me the perfect access to see inside.