The Love Affair(Good Wife Better Mistress)

Good Wife OR Better Mistress

I am both mentally and emotionally drained. Today at work was as if I was auto pilot; I didn't talk, I didn't eat, I just did what needed to be done and came straight home. My mind kept replaying my night with Alex over and over being caught by his wife. I foolishly thought that maybe if he felt me near him, he would open his eyes and that would be the end of this whole horrible ordeal.

It sounds so simple yet I'm finding it physically impossible. My heart has been in my stomach since yesterday and my hand instinctively rubs my wrist where my charm bracelet no longer hangs.

I could easily go to my jewelry box and admire every memorable moment Alex and I shared, I just don't think it's a good idea since it'll most likely open the flood gates. So here I sit, completely at a lost as to what I should do. I turn on the television just to fill the apartment with noise. I walk around my kitchen hoping to find something that my spark my appetite when I hear my phone beep. I look and it's a text from Karen.

Was wondering if it was okay if I came over?*

I read the message and wonder if I've become so closed off that my best friend has to actually ask to come over. I text her back absolutely and begin to straighten up. I guess I shouldn't say straighten up, I'm more so doing a walk through to make sure there's no trace of Alex in sight. Ten minutes later there's a stern knock on the door. I head to answer it very hesitantly since I know it couldn't possibly be Karen since it takes almost a half an hour to drive from her house. I look out the peep hole and it's most certainly not my best friend, in fact it's not a friend at all. I debate on what I should do and decide to open the door since I made this bed, so I must lay in it. In front of me stands Nicole, in all her trophy wife glory.

"Well hello Gabriela, may I come in?" She's crazy if she thinks for a second I'll let her in.

"No. Why are you here?" I'm not stupid. I know what this is about and I don't want her anywhere near me.

"I just want to talk, and I don't think this conversation should be had in a hallway." I hate that she's absolutely right.

"You have five minutes." I move away from the door to let her in. She brushes past me, looking around my apartment almost in disgust. The sound of her high heels echoing off my hardware floors.

"This is a cute apartment you have here Gabriela. I wonder who pays for it."

"I pay for it. Now, what do you want."

"What I want is for you to stay away from my husband, but I guess you probably knew that." Well, that surely is cliché.

"Whatever feelings you have for him stop this very second. You are not to see him, talk to him or his family. Do you understand?" if this situation wasn't so serious, I would laugh right in her face.

"What makes you think if I stay away from Alexandr, he'll stay away from me?" A emotion crosses her face before she quickly covers it.

"Do you honestly think he will choose you over me? If so much as a whisper got out about this affair, Alexandro would be ruined. He'll lose business deals and soon RG will fall. And you honestly think he's willing to lose everything for you?" Of course over the course of our relationship I thought of what might happen if word got out about Alexandro and I, and my worst fear is that it would hurt his business. He can lose every dime he has but his business is his baby and I would never want him to lose that.

"To answer your question yes, I think given the choice between you and I, he will choose me every time. He loves me and that's a fact. But I will not settle for part of him, I want all of him and that's impossible while he's married to you. So I ended it." I hang my head as I fidget with my fingers, hating telling her about Alexandro and I but she has the right to know.