The Affair

Chapter 23

Ryan's POV

I couldn't do it, I wanted to so badly, I wanted to leave her be and let her make her own decision without me interfering but I just couldn't

I can't be okay with her giving up on us again, is that selfish? Probably but you know what? I don't fucking care anymore, if I say this and she still chooses him then I know I gave her everything and I know she made the choice she truly wanted

I was at her front door when I realised I should let her know I'm here, I don't want to cause shit between her and Thomas if she decides to stick with her marriage, I'd get it if the baby is his but otherwise is he really worth it? Is a marriage really worth all the pain he's caused her?

I decided to call her to tell her to come outside and after a few moments she answered but when I spoke down the line I got no response, I was about to hang up when I started to hear talking, she wasn't not talking to me but she was talking to someone

"Please! Just stop!" She yelled and I quickly realised something was wrong

"Nah, I'm okay actually" I heard a sinister voice, it sent me into a flashback, a memory I didn't even know I had

I heard that same voice one night when I walked in on something absolutely foul

I had totally forgotten this, maybe I just blocked it out or maybe I didn't want to remember

That night I walked in on Thomas with a girl, drunk, naked and crying, then I remember it, how violent Thomas was, he kept getting away with beating girls and raping them because campus police wouldn't do anything, probably something to do with the substantial contributions Thomas' dad gave to the school, he did it all the way from the last years at boarding school, all the way through college and all of business school too, I knew he was doing it but I never stopped him

I was an asshole too, what was I gonna do? I knew it was wrong, I wanted to stop him, I would never have done any of the things he did, I never got that drunk at a party, or in general

But that voice, that was the voice he had that night when he did the worst he'd ever done, that was when his dad decided he'd had enough, he spent the summer after our last year of business school in rehab getting treated for alcohol abuse, drug addiction and anger management before he could go to work at his dad's company

I must have completely blocked this out, I remember a so-called friend doing all that, maybe I just didn't want to remember that was Thomas

I feel so stupid, I left her alone with him, I let her go back to him, I knew he was dangerous, I just didn't want to remember

As soon as I realised what was going on I knew I had to get in there before it's too late

Having come to that realisation I started banging on the door

I waited for a moment and then Thomas came to the door, the second he saw me his face turned even more sour

"Leave and stay away from my wife or I won't afford you the same niceties I am now" he tells me angrily

"I guess the anger management didn't work then" I reply equally angrily

"Excuse me?" He replied coldly, trying to make himself as tall as he could but I'm still a few inches taller

"I remember what you did to those girls, I'd blocked it out before but not anymore, you beat them and raped them and got away with it, I didn't stop you then even though I should have but I am going to stop you now" I tell him aggressively

"Oh yeah? You couldn't win a fight with me no matter how hard you tried" he sneered, he acts so tough but really he just hides behind his dad's money

"Chloe?!" I yelled, worried, I couldn't see her and I didn't like it

He laughs coldly at that, it's almost chilling

"She won't be seeing you again" he sneers

"Go to hell!" I yell as I try to push past him, he shoved me back and now I've had enough

I shove him back and punch him square in the face until he falls to the ground, while he's down I run up the stairs until I see their bedroom door open

The second I stepped into the door my heart stopped

Chloe was led on the floor unconscious

WHAT DID HE DO?!

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HEHEHEHEHE IM SO EVIL! Also I was gonna update last night but then someone forgot the word please so I decided to penalise you all cuz I'm mean like that, I don't appreciate having 'update' being yelled at me without a please, it all ends soon, are you ready? Xoxo