The other women

Twenty Nine.

I drove home after dropping Ava off and it felt like I left a piece of my heart in that apartment. I wasn't really in a mood for date night, but I know Olivia is excited. I stop in front of my house considering to text Ava but I know I have to respect her decision and I need to let her go, I couldn't give her what she want. I took my bags and walk into the house. "Olivia I'm home." I say putting my door at the door and she came from the kitchen smiling. "Hi, I missed you." she say giving me a kiss and a hug. "I missed you too," I lie we walk to the kitchen and I see the table is set for us, with candles and all. "Something smell nice." I say taking a beer. "I cooked your favourite." she say and I nod. "So what is the surprise?" I ask leaning against the counter and she smile. "I will tell you as soon as we sit down." she say and I just nod. "Okay can I take a quick shower?" I ask and she nod, I walk to our room with my bag and went to shower, I know Olivia will unpack for me later.

I walk back to the kitchen. "Good, just in time food is ready." she say and I walk to the table sitting down. I pour some wine for her and for myself, I do not like wine but I will drink it with her. She dish up for us and we started eating. "So how was Mexico?" she ask and I sigh. "Difficult, Jack was a hard ass but I eventually got everything I needed from him." I say and she nods, I realize she did not touch her wine. "If I where his wife, I would have fight for everything as well." she say and I look at her shock, I did not say anything. "So what is the surprise?" I ask and she smile standing up and went to fetch a box, she gave it to me and I frown. "Open it." she say clearly excited and I do. My heart stopped and I could not believe what I saw, a pregnancy test and it was clearly positive. I look at her and she smile. "Surprise." she say and I was in shock I did not know what to say.

""You're pregnant?" I ask and she nod, "I am 4 weeks tomorrow." she say excited, but I cannot be excited, I was going to leave her I wanted to leave her. "Are you not happy?" she ask confuse, looking at me and I know she can see it on my face. "We didn't plan this Olivia, I thought we agreed on one child." I say and she frown "I know, it just happened." she say and I nod pushing the box away from me. "What happened to your contraception's?" I ask angry she told me she was using it. "The doctor said that it doesn't always work a 100%." she say and I just nod rubbing my chin. "Why are you not happy Michael?" she ask close to tears and I sigh. "You know we are not in a good place Olivia, I am working a lot and we fight all the time, what made you think a baby will be good right now?" I ask her standing up to pour myself whiskey.

"I don't know, I thought we were better." she say and I turn around. "Really, you really thought we were better, did you plan this?" I ask her and she look shock and hurt but I also see a little guilt in her face. "What?" "Did you plan this Olivia, did you think bringing a baby into this fucking marriage will fix things?" I ask her really angry now. She swallow a few times and then shake her head. "I don't know why you are acting like this Michael, I thought having another baby will make you happy, I was clearly wrong." "So you trapped me, you got pregnant on purpose to what make sure I am staying, that I will not leave you?" I shout and she looks down. "So instead of asking what we can do to make the marriage better again, you thought having another baby is what we are missing?" I ask downing my whiskey. She doesn't answer and I can see she is crying. "Well guess what Olivia it doesn't fix what is wrong it just fucked everything up more."

She doesn't say anything and I was busy losing my patients. "Talk Olivia, don't fucking sit there and play the victim." I shout and she look up. "What do you want me to say Michael, it happened and I am sorry maybe when the baby is here you will feel different." she say and I shake my head. "NO, you just made me resent you and the child growing inside of you, that is what you did." she looked like I slapped her and I did not care, I think the thing with Ava is also making me more frustrated than I needed to be, but fuck I did not want another baby. "Don't be cruel, we can go for counselling before the baby comes and we can work on It." she say and I laugh. "Now you want to work on it, you should have suggested that before you decided to get fucking pregnant." I see her get angry as well and she stands up. "When Michael, when was I supposed to suggest it, you are always fucking working, or is it because you are cheating on me?" she shout and I look at her in shock how does she know?

"I am not cheating on you, why would you say that?" I ask her and she laugh. "I am not fucking stupid I know you are, and I know it's that model that you met on the guys trip, why do you think I invited her here, I wanted to see how you would react." she say and I was shocked she knew all along. "How did you find out?" I ask her and she laugh folding her arms. "I saw your phone, she really does look great in lingerie." she say sarcastically and I nod. "Was she with you in Mexico?" she ask sitting down and drinking her wine. "Yes." I say and she nods. "How long do you know?" I ask also sitting down and she sigh. "A few weeks, I googled her and I found out where here managers office was and I went there every day until I could see her, I wanted to confront her but I decided it would be better to see how you react if I become friends with her." she say and I nod. "So you have been seeing her for what 8 months?" she ask and I nod. "Do you love her Michael?" she ask and I look down. "I think so, but it doesn't matter she told me today that it is over, because I was not willing to leave you." I say looking at her and I can see the hurt in her eyes.

"So she is the one that left you, because she felt guilty, more than you?" she ask and I frown. "I do feel guilty Olivia, and I never wanted it to happen like this, but you know our marriage is broken." I say and she nod. "I think this marriage is over Michael, don't you?" she ask and I look down. "Don't you want to work on it?" She sigh thinking a bit and then she look at me. "If you can promise that you will really try, I would love to work on our marriage, I do love you Michael, and we have two children to think about." she say and I nod. "Okay we can work on it." I say walking to her and hug her.