Chapter 16

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Chloe's POV

Hannah seemed really sweet, her and Ryan definitely look similar, he took her up to bed and then a few minutes later came back down

"So you got custody?" I ask, I was curious, I hadn't heard anything

"Not yet, I get visits with her every other weekend at the moment until I can go to court for custody" he explains to me sadly, he's trying to seem upbeat about it and look at the positives I can tell but sometimes it's okay to just not be okay with something

"I'm sorry" I say yet again, I feel so awful, I was terrible about ending things and then I just flounce back in and hope I get forgiven?

"It's okay" he told me and then he said something I wasn't really expecting to hear "I missed you"

Ryan's POV

She brought her gaze up to meet mine and for a moment we were just there, I'm not sure if there was a reason or if we just were, I'll never know

"I missed you too" she whispered back a few moments later

Archie soon re-caught her attention and back down she looked at him,the love that emanated from her when she was looking at her son was beautiful

It's good she isn't holding any resentment because of what his father has done, he's her world, that little boy

It's a disgusting thing to do though, cheat on your pregnant wife? That's horrible, I know she cheated with me but it's still not the same thing, she was at home, pretty sick and totally alone, she loved him with everything and he still cheated, he barely seemed to give a shit, no wonder she went somewhere else

She was having a really rough time with pregnancy and he was just sleeping with someone else because she didn't want to in that state

"Are you gonna be okay about this?" I ask her gently

She moves over and snuggles into me, I wrap my arm around her , I see Archie has fallen asleep and realise she's about to as well

"Chlo?" I ask gently

"I want to leave him, I wanna be with you" she tells me but it's now I realise what she was worried about before, fighting for custody can be hard and I imagine he would fight her just to spite her for leaving him

"You can't risk losing Archie" I remind her and then she sits back up to look me in the eye

"You think I'll lose him?" She asks nervously

"I don't know, I think you need to think it through and be prepared to leave before you do" I suggest

"You don't want us to be together?" She questioned, sounding quite hurt

"Of course I do, but you're not thinking clearly, I don't want you to make this decision because you're hurt by what Thomas has done to you" I point out, she's not thinking straight right now, she needs to think this through properly

"I don't wanna go back there, not now" she tells me with tears in her eyes

"I know" I reply as as she settles back down against me

We sit in silence for a while until she suddenly gets up, having given no warning

She kneels down and carefully puts Alfie back in his carrier to let him sleep

"I'm really tired" she whispered, sniffling and wiping her eye to hide that fact a few tears were falling

"I know you are, come here" I replied gently, she came and led down, I put a pillow on my lap for her to rest her head on and then pulled a blanket down over her

"Goodnight Chlo" I whispered to her but she was already out of it

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Chloe's POV

The next morning Ryan and I talked, he convinced me to get my head straight and get everything together before I make a decision that's completely final

He's gonna stick by me while I'm still married to another man, how the hell can he be okay with that?

The next morning when I woke up he drove me and Archie home

I walked through the door to find Thomas pacing the length of the kitchen, not looking impressed

"Where the hell have you been?!" He yelled angrily

"A friend had an emergency and needed me so I went and I thought it would be easier if I had Archie with me" I told him, trying to sound as realistic as possible, hoping he wouldn't figure out hat I was lying my ass off

"You should've told me where you were going!" He yells

"YOURE MY HUSBAND NOT MY KEEPER!" I retaliated

His repose shocked me, he turned and punched the wall so hard I was surprised that he didn't break it

"What friend?" He suddenly asked me while still looking down at his fist with he was now holding onto carefully

"One of the moms from the park, you know, where I've been taking YOUR son to play while YOU were too busy to be here" I attacked him back, I'm not taking his shit anymore

"GODDAMNIT CHLOE IM HERE NOW ARENT I?! IM TRYING NOW ARENT I?! IM BUSY! WORKING TO GIVE YOU AND HIM THIS LIFE OF LUXURY!" He yelled at me, fuelled by anger

"I DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT ANY OF THIS! I HAD NOTHING BUT THE BARE MINIMUM AS A CHILD AND I WAS STILL AS HAPPY AS COULD BE! I NEVER EXPECTED THIS FROM YOU! I WANTED YOU NOT YOUR MONEY!" I scream at him, finally snapping

I hate him

I finally hate him

"I was helping a friend who needed me, I'm sorry I didn't tell you exactly what was happening, it was just a huge rush" I lied, I think I was doing a pretty good job of it too

"I'm sorry" he apologised but I'm done babying and coddling his temper and just letting everything go

I nodded and then walked out of the room

This was gonna be the start of a LONG few weeks

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So what do you think will happen next? Will Chloe work up the courage to leave Thomas or will she just give up and fold again? The end is getting closer and I'm already not ready to let go 😂😂 xoxo

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