Deceitful | Book 3

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PRESENT

"Baby?"

I could hear Tereny's voice, but the room was too dark to see her. So I started feeling around the bed for her but couldn't feel her. Frustrated, I lean over to the nightstand and touched the lamp to cut the light on. When I looked up at her, she was standing across the room near the bathroom. She had tears falling from her eyes and it was something I just didn't quite understand why.

"What's wrong?" I ask her as I stand up to walk over to her.

"Bruce, I did something bad. I mean really bad." She cried, trying to wipe her tears away. I walked over to her and wrapped my arms around her, kissing her on her forehead and holding her tightly.

"What do you mean, baby? What did you do?" I ask her.

"Baby, I drugged Britney." She cried as if she was dying inside. I pulled away from her and held her head up to get a good look at her.

"What you mean you drugged Britney?" I asked her, confused.

"She wouldn't go to sleep and I was tired, so I put melatonin drops in her juice. I feel so bad." She started sobbing uncontrollably and I just couldn't help but laugh a little bit.

"Bae, I'm sure Britney's okay. She sleep. That's all that matters. Why you crying?" I held onto her and rubbed her back. "It's a'ight. We all do it. I know how things can get now that you've got Britten and Britney won't sleep. That's my fault for letting her nap during the day. It's my fault." I try to convince her, listening to her cries simmer down a little bit.

"I just never done anything like that before. I don't know what came over me. I'm just tired and I wanna go to sleep and she just wouldn't let me. Now, I can't go to sleep because I drugged her." I buried Tereny's head into my chest and rocked her a little bit, trying to calm her down.

"Don't stress yourself. It's not a drug. She'll be up tomorrow morning without any recollection. Just come to bed and get you some rest and I'll take care of Britney and Britten tomorrow. You can stay in bed and rest up a little bit." I tell her as I pulled away from the hug and took her hand, pulling her to her side of the bed, which was the right.

She allowed for me to. She pulled the covers back and got into bed and I tucked her in, giving her a kiss on her forehead and rubbed her arm before walking over to my bed and climbing in.

When I got inside, Tereny turned my way and pushed herself into my body. I smiled and wrapped my arm around her and looked at the bedroom door for a moment and sighed.

See, this is what you call a deed of a good husband. To make his wife feel that she'd done nothing wrong when in fact, she had. Part of me loved taking the blame for things that I didn't do whenever Tereny felt guilty about something. It made her feel better and I loved making her feel better. To me, it's really not all about me and I like it that way. It's about my wife and kids. I love them. I'd give away my life for them. I don't want anything bad to happen to any of them. They're my world. I just don't understand how I can feel so strongly about my family, but betray them in order to get them. It's almost like...I cheated to get this life...

PAST –

"Damn, Keira...can you drop the attitude?"

Something told me not to even spend my birthday with her because her ass was going to fuck it all up for me. The fact that I'd actually wanted to spend some time with her on my birthday had me happier than a bitch, but when I had actually started to realize that she had a bipolar disorder, it quickly snapped me out of the trance that I was stuck in.