THE GREAT WAR || T. SHELBY (3)

TWENTY-FIVE

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: QUIET GOODBYE

A/N: Prepare the tissues, folks.

TABITHA SAT IN THE BEDROOM IN SILENCE.

It took two minutes of just sitting there for the realization to set in. What Diana meant. That Thomas had sex with. That he cheated on Tabitha with another woman. Something Tabitha believed he'd never do to hurt her. But he did...he completely shattered her spirit. For Tabitha, it was the straw that broke the camels back.

Tabitha had endured much being married to Thomas. From being a normal gypsy girl to a Peaky Blinder's wife. The more she was faced with, the more she began to crumble. And now that Thomas  broke her, it was the end. She couldn't take it anymore. Couldn't take living in that house anymore. Living in constant heartbreak. Tabitha was tired of being surrounded by war and death. She was done.

When Thomas walked into the room, Tabitha was frozen. She was  like a statue, refusing to look at the wall in front of her. Refusing to even look at her husband to even a moment. Just seeing is face after what she realization caused her shear pain.

"Well, this has been an awful night," Thomas spoke, but Tabitha didn't. "I had to calm down Mosley and Diana from what you did. They threatened to call the police."

Tabitha didn't answer, only giving a scoff. Thomas looked at her, wanting her to look at him ad say something.

"Are you even listening?" Thomas asked.

She didn't answer again but finally moved. The brunette store up and slowly turned towards her husband. Just looking at him made anger bubble within her.

"Is it true?" Tabitha asked, her voice cold. "What Diana said? Is it true?"

"No," Thomas answered after a second. He looked at her in disbelief that she even dared to ask. "Of course I didn't."

The answer made Tabitha darkly scoff. "So you deny it when we not obviously know the answer?"

"Tab-"

"You don't get to call me that. Not anymore," she cut him off.

"I didn't sleep with Diana. She only said that to-"

"To what? Make me upset?" Tabitha cut him off again. "She is quite honest on how she feels about me. And it was painfully obvious when we first met that she planned to make you he next conquest."

"How could you not believe me on this?!" Thomas asked, starting to lose his temper.

"Are you really asking me that?" She started raising her voice. "When you don't even tell me anything that's going on! You don't even tell me when you're leaving and going anymore!"

"Do you have any idea that I will do anything for you?! To keep you and Maggie safe! From the start, everything I have done has been for you!"

"I never asked for this, Tommy! I never asked for you to start dealing with these horrible people, but you never fucking listen to me!"

"I listen to you all time because you never let me hear the end of it!"

"You know, I used to defend you to my family our entire marriage! I even defended you to Polly, to Arthur, John, and Ada! But now I know they're absolutely right!" Tabitha yelled at him, tears forming in her eyes. "You've been gaslighting and just tolerating me for the last four years!'

"You chose to stat with me when this all began. You chose this life! You wanted this life until you didn't!"

"All I've ever wanted was you, Thomas! Only you, and our daughter, and our son. But we have never been enough for you and we never will be! And you decided to go fuck someone else!"