Keeping Each Other

TWENTY-TWO

Happy Sunday y'all.....

JULIET'S POV.

For the past three days, Damien has been sleeping in the sitting room. After begging for the first two days, he gave up.

I felt bad. On a second thought, he never lied to me. He told me what had really transpired between him and Ada, neither of us knew this would be the outcome.

I'm supposed to be with him at his worst and comfort him and plan with him on the way forward but instead I'm pushing him away.

Since this issue started, Damien has not been himself. He rarely talks when we're in the dinning, sometimes, he's just completely zoned out. He  makes sure that he takes his bath early and carries his pillow to the children's room until me and the kids have gone inside before he comes out. Even the children have noticed that something is wrong and it's affecting them.

What am I doing?? I thought.

I stood up from the bed, it's 2:17am and I'm still unable to sleep, this is serious insomnia. I walked to the kitchen, opened the fridge and took a bottle of water. Out of impatience, I chugged the water. Bad manners. The cup is not even far away.

I walked to the entrance of the sitting room and saw Damien sleeping. I stood there and watched him for a while, he looked restless, flipping from one side to the other.

Hmmmm.

I walked slowly to where he was lying down and tapped him lightly. He opened his eyes slowly, when he saw that it was me, he sat down.

"Can I sit??" I asked him.

"Yes sure" he said weakly.

"How are you feeling??" I asked him as i sat down.

"I'm Okay." he replied.

"Baby, I'm sorry. Thinking about everything again I realized that it wasn't even your fault. You didn't know that this was going to happen. Maybe I was over thinking things, what will people say? What will your parents say? Church members, society. Right now, I'm just standing on my toes."

"I'm on edge too." he said softly. "That child will be a reminder of my infidelity for the rest of our lives. How are we going to explain to Jason and Jasmine this situation."

"Together" I clasp his hand firmly. "We will go through this together."

"Come here, I've missed you." he shifted me close to him and wrapped his hands around my shoulders.

"I wouldn't have made it past this night if I haven't talked to you. I couldn't sleep."

He chuckled lightly. "I'm glad I still have that effect on you."

I rested my head on his chest and before I knew it, I drifted off to sleep.

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The past few days have been fun, Juliana and her husband finally came back from Dubai, the children are about to start their exams and Damien and I no longer have awkward conversations.

We talked about everything and he has given me the right to take whatever decision I want to. I'm his legal wife and the ball is in my court.

I met with Ada and talked to her. I made it plain to her that there's no competition and that Damien belongs to me but we are willing to support her in every step of her pregnancy till she gives birth and even after the child is born, we will work something out.

If I wasn't a mother, I would have told her that if it was left for me, after the birth i'd love to adopt the child and make it mine but I knew how much I try will hurt her so instead I told her she'll have the child till the child is old enough to be put in primary school then Damien and I will take the baby but she'll get assess to the child during holidays. She didn't agree though, but I know she'll come around later. She's got no Choice.

About my pregnancy, I haven't told Damien yet. I'm waiting for the perfect time to let him know. After everything that has happened, I don't want him to start feeling somehow, like he has to choose between two babies.

So far so good, everything has been working out fine.

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DAMIEN'S POV.

So far so good, Juliet has been a very supportive wife. Aside from the first time she found out the Ada is pregnant she has been supportive.

The thing she doesn't know is that Ada didn't come into our lives to joke, We have an history together, that's before I met Juliet. She has been secretly bugging me, asking me to go to hospital appointments with her as the baby's father and that she's a pregnant woman with cravings so I should at least try to spend time with her.

There's one time she called me and started crying, damn! I was confused, I didn't know what to do I had to go see her she calmed down and blamed it on hormones.

I haven't mentioned any of this to Juliet because she is very sensitive to this topic and I don't want to cause chaos between the two women. I love my wife no doubt, in fact I'm not in anyway attracted to Ada emotionally but I just feel like I have an obligation to be there for her because of her condition.

I know this is quite short, but your girl is battling with small writers block.

What do you guys think??

Damien did mention something about a history with Ada... Mmm who can guess???

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