Unfading Scars #1 ; River & Bill

Chapter VI : Third crumbling

It's been three months knowing that I am not the father of Bella's pregnancy and I'd thrown her out of Sam's house soon as the result came out when she pleaded and screamed insisting that it was mine but I played a lying card with a doctor but I was done , I was done with her on every way .

I've lived the three months of regretting that night I walked out to have some air after we've paid the last respect to my child , I was down and feeling so much pain . I was happy knowing I was going to be a father , I'd tell my co workers and friends sharing them the joys I've had from the news my wife dropped two months before .

I met Bella in the nearby restaurant and she walked out to me and I believe she saw me first because I was too far in my thoughts .

A had tapped my shoulder and I turned to see her , I smiled as she spoke so calmly  .

" I've been calling you , where are you lost "

I lowered my face and she caressed my arm this time .

" I understand what you're passing through but everything is going to be alright , you're going to be alright "

And I needed to hear that so badly that I took it from her with both hands when she'd offered a coffee , then a lunch for the next days and dinners began for the next weeks when my wife was grieving at home leaving her organization on the trusted hands of her friend , while I worked myself everyday hard than before and there it started .

I was not working hard anymore but sometimes creating time to see Bella for lunch and dinner when she asked and it became a habit of me asking her sometimes , we'd then go to the hotels , cinema halls as she demanded , zoos and small vacations with the justification of getting my mind out from the death of my child .

I'd lie every time with the vacation to my wife who barely asked me where I was going , and it became a habit too . Then my business was on for deals and business way further and I'd pick Bella from her house to attend with me and excuse myself to my wife that she was in no condition to come out , and when she will be then we'll go out together and sadly she'd agree after  seeing herself when I combed her hairs in mirror , she had some red puffy eyes from so much cry and I'd comfort her those days but at night I would spend with Bella in the function and after the function .

And it went down the hill when we walked from the party of one of my business associates and Bella invited me to her home where one thing led to another and we slept together , and it became a habit . Then I'd start to make excuses using my business and not step at my own house but rather make a home with Bella .

Time flew and I found so much more entangled with Bella than my wife , I'd forgotten totally about her , not a call , not some gifts , nothing . My wife did not doubt a thing because whenever she'd asked I would call for a business excuse and she'd buy that .

My friends came to see how deep I was going with Bella , hell many people knew and some warned me when I'd excuse myself with a friendship name especially Samson , my closest friend . He came to hate Bella with his life claiming that she's the one diverting my focus from my marriage , that I am throwing the gold I've been digging for years  to find and run for garbage I've barely found on the road , and he was right but I didn't heed his advice  Until when Bella threw that card of a divorce with my wife in my face .

Like a boost my mind flashed fastly and the feelings I've been bottling away erupted to realize the mistakes I've been doing ,giving Bella the cozy she wanted to have enough courage to ask a divorce to my wife .

Then I walked that night back home just to see the cold air that shouted my crime to chase away the warmth of our home just to be welcomed by a strike of pictures that spoke volumes of what I've been doing and that my wife knows about that .

And my world crumbled when she'd not heed a word from me and take rest instead ,then ignored me the next day and stated how she's lived in a dirty house after I admitted with my silence in fucking bella in our home .

And again my hopes crumbled .

I pulled my phone again and dialed Gracie,this damn secretary must be playing some games with me ,how can it be she's never called me for the appointment and whenever I do so she'd remind me her words .

" She asked me to call you a week from the appointment Mr. Norman " .

It's been seven times and the answer never changed and so I tried again .

" When is my appointment ? " I asked her before she could speak her recites.

" Today Mr. Norman "  I jolted happily hearing that but then became angry at the game she played .

" And so why haven't I seen your call a week before "

" Because your appointment was another three months forward but Miss . Greystone upfront it just few minutes before you called "

And I was shocked beyond measures , my wife gave me an appointment of six months ,I was going to wait in dark for six months .

" Your appointment is half an hour from now on , she'd not be receiving you afterwards " Gracie snapped me from my reverie .

" Where's the venue ? "

" Greystone's Company "

I hung out and walked out of my office being determined to make it on time and have a talk with my wife ,not knowing I would find the third crumbling in my life .