Deceitful | Book 3

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"He what?!"

    Gabby screamed from the other end of my phone as I got into my car and looked around the parking lot as if Martray was going to appear from somewhere and try to be stupid. The fact that I'd just picked up a scorching headache on the way out this bitch had me mad as fuck.

    "He wants to tell Tereny about us." I repeat myself.

    "He can't do that. She won't believe him. Besides, we haven't slept around since..." She paused for a moment and sighed. I looked down, trying to erase what happened between us out of memory. "The last time was an accident. It wasn't serious." Gabby said to me as if she were panicking. I sighed into the phone and started the ignition.

    "Gabby, I haven't really been straight forward with you." I tell her as I sit back in my seat and look straight out ahead of me and ran my hand across my face.

    This shit has been eating at me for years. And I knew I should've said something way beforehand, but I just couldn't find a way to tell her. The fact that we were sitting here now, years after, it just felt like the wrong time. But I knew that if I wanted to let everything out, it needed to start now.

    I've been holding in so many truths that it's starting to catch up with me. This wasn't the type of person that I am. I'm the loving and caring person that everyone has painted me out to be. There's nothing wrong with me. I don't have a deceitful bone in my body, but here I was holding some shit in that could ruin my marriage. I swear all I ever wanted was to be a good husband and the best father that I could possibly be. That's all I wanted. That's the picture my mother had painted out to me...hell even Cheri. What the fuck have I gotten myself into?

    "What do you mean?" I heard her ask me as my thoughts started shifting into overdrive. I shook my head and chewed at my bottom lip.

    "I love you." I say to her.

    "I love you, too, bruh. What's wrong?"

    "No...no, Gabby, you're not really hearing me." I say after a brief pause. And as bad as I didn't want to say it again, I knew that I couldn't fight my feelings anymore. I was wrong. "I'm in love with you, Gabriella Ojeda."

    That's when it seemed like everything around me had come tumbling down. My world had come crashing. My car had caved in around me. I was left lacking the bit of oxygen that I did have. In fact, I didn't think that I was going to make it out of the parking lot alive when I realized that Gabby wasn't about to say anything to me.

    "Bruce, you gotta stop that." Gabby said to me in a very low and feminine tone that I wasn't used to hearing her use. She sounded almost as if she were emotional.

    "I tried, Gabby. I can't." I admit to her.

    "You're married to the woman that you love...with children. You can't possibly be in love with me. We're best friends." She says to me.

    Gabby was more than right. I love Tereny with everything in me. There's no place I'd rather be than with her. She has my two beautiful children and she loves me more than anything in this world. Tereny did everything for me. She was by my side, one hunnid. Why is it that when you believe you're making all of the right moves, there just this one setback that isn't so minor opposed to others? Gabby isn't just a minor setback. Gabby is a realization that not only did I love someone, but I've been loving her since the first day we met. And because she told me she was gay, I had no choice but to move along with my life. Gabby is bisexual and no matter how many times she's tried telling me she's only into girls, I can't believe her because of what happened that one night...