It's Sad to Belong

It's Sad to Belong || She found out!

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Chapter Fifteen

It's 3:00 AM and Ericka and James are sleeping when all of a sudden, his phone starts to vibrate.

Ericka gets awaken by the nonstop vibration, and starts to look for the phone.

She finds it under James's pillow. She grabs the phone and checks to see who it is calling at that time.

It's an unknown caller, and Ericka immediately gets this horrible, sickening feeling in her guts.

She gets up and stands by the window.

She answers it and listens in to the voice on the other end of the line.

"Hey, sexy. Wake up. Come and cuddle with me," says the woman in a half-sleepy, semi-seductive voice.

Ericka heart drops and she begins to cry silently.

Oddly, she is not surprised at all because somehow, deep down, she knew that this day would come.

She has been in denial for so long, and this phone call confirms all of her suspicions.

She wants to say something but couldn't.

There are so many things she'd like to say to her, to this homewrecking bitch, but it seems like her lips became paralyzed.

Although she has only met her a few times, she is 100% sure that the voice on the other end of the line belongs to Nadine.

There is no doubt about it.

Within seconds she is able to have flashbacks of the past.

This explains all the late nights at the office, quick and stolen glances at one another, the flirty smiles and Nadine's reaction to her when they saw each other at the airport.

This explains everything. Nadine's really is her husband's mistress.

"James, are you there?" says Nadine, sounding more awake now that she did a minute ago. "James?"

Ericka hangs up and sits in the corner.

She cries silently in the dark.

She does not know what to do, whether or not to confront James, or to just go on pretending like she knows nothing.

She loves James with all her heart, and there is nothing in the world that she wouldn't do for him, but she also does not want a cheating husband.

She wants to just get up and confront James about it, especially now that she has solid proof.

But a big part of her is scared; scared to lose James and scared to break up their family.

She brings her knees on her chest and puts her head down, wishing very hard that this is all just a nightmare; that when she wakes up in the morning, James would still be in love with her and Nadine never existed.

Her sobs become louder and louder, and James gets awaken by the sound.

He rubs his eyes and searches the room, not completely understanding what's going on.

"Eri?" he calls. "Is that you?" he says, turning on the light.

He sees her sitting in the corner holding his cellphone, crying uncontrollably.

His heart drops and immediately knows that she had already found out about his affair with Nadine.

"How long?" she asks, gathering her strength to speak.