12. Old traditions

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Tamia sat at the kitchen island looking through some booklets. She almost snapped her neck to look towards the door as she heard the key in it and saw it open. She jumped down from her stool. "Raphael...

"I've come back to collect some of my stuff... I'm not staying.."

"Please... I can't stand this.. I am so, so, sorry...

"The fact remains you slept with him

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"The fact remains you slept with him.. you're supposed to be my wife, forsaking all others... I can't even look at you the same right now.."

Tamia burst into tears. "I can't lose you Raphael.. please... I would do anything for us to be okay.. for us to work at this.."

"Not only did you cheat on me, but you also cheated with a mother fucker like Kingston... a man who is in direct competition with Haydn and I... how could you even think that this was a good move Tamia... you are not the woman I thought you were..." he said angry and upset. Raphael was all about family and he loved his wife dearly. It was hurting him deeply to see her again, which was why he had avoided coming home until now.

"I am at the same person that you met.. that you fell in love with... and I am still so in love with you" she said wiping her tears. "Please let me make this up to you..."

Raphael looked at her and shook his head, he was still so raw with it all.
The door opened and Lucia walked in humming a tune to herself. She stopped when she saw them both, she knew something was up, and she knew this was what her uncle had been avoiding telling her when he had been speaking to Haydn secretly.

She looked at both of them with an inquisitive look. "Right, now I know that there is something going on... Please do not keep me in the dark, because the last thing I want to do is not to be able to trust my family..." she told them.

Tamia hung her head. Raphael took a deep breath and sighed. "Yo auntie.. I'm sure she'll tell you everything.. I need to get my stuff together.." he headed upstairs leaving the two girls looking at each other.

"Auntie?." She asked.

"I don't want you to hate me too.."

"Why would I hate you.. just talk to me... what is uncle Raphy not staying here?"

"I was out with friends a few weeks back... I met an ex of mine... he was over here from the east coast... we got to talking and." She paused her nieces face. " I went back to his hotel and I slept with him." She covered her face and cried into her hands.

Lucia was shocked. She had never known her auntie and uncle to be cheaters. Their love always seemed so real and natural, she always believed they had such a strong foundation that nothing or no one could break them and she had always wanted their relationship to be her goal, where she would get to when she met her Mr right.
"I don't know what to say... I'm devastated... I have always looked up the both of you...

"I know you have... I am so sorry Lucia...

"Do you think you can work this out?... hopefully this ex has gone now right?... I know that you will never do anything like this again... and uncle Raphael will too...

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