Secret Miracle

Two

...

Ben started to talk as they were sat at the table, "I'm not blind somethings up, gonna tell me what."

Maggie gasped.

"Talk to me talk to me it can't be that bad," Ben said as he placed his hand on hers.

Maggie began to look away from her husband and towards him back and forth as she fiddled with his fingers as she began to well up with tears and began to cry.

She was sighed as she opened her mouth to begin to utter a precious few word outs, as she began to feel the liar beneath her was going to escape.

Ben spoke" Do you know what I think, I know you came around suddenly, I know it was for me, and I think you're worried about the money, " As maggie gasped for breath. "and if that's the case, then you gotta tell me now cause tomorrow gonna be too late.

Maggie began to speak as she looked into her husband's eyes: "Yes that's, ar its everything!"

Ben began to convince Maggie that it was all going to be okay and say why she was so scared: "I know you haven't accepted Marco for the past but if I can move on from that stuff, can't you, he family, I missed him I've missed all of them."

"Yeah, I know. Maggie remarked as she tried to fight back the fear and scaredness from her voice.

"that's gonna fix all then it's all I've ever wanted, everyone to be happy," he said as he smiled.

...

Maggie rushed out of the surf club as she told Ben that she couldn't go to the bank, that it wasn't about the money she furiously walked on the beach as she was ready to tell ben the truth.

"Maggie" Ben shouted as he exited the surf club chasing after his wife "Slow down, what's going on?"

Maggie began to cry more as she tried to get Ben to come with her "Not here, let's just go home"

"What about the meeting with Marco at the bank," Ben said concerned about his wife but also about his brother and the deal with the family business

"We're not going to the bank Ben," Maggie shouted as she walked saddened from the blackmail that Marco was trying to extortion.

"Why not?" Ben questioned.

"Can we just go home ben." She said as she cried to go home.

...

"Mags" Ben calmly ushered loudly as he walked into the house. Maggie walked around the house before stopping in front of the dining table "Hey baby it okay" Ben said reassuring her.

"it's not," Maggie said as she continued to stand with her head down as she refused to look at him before she moved towards her husband. "baby you know I love you?" She questioned her husband.

"Yeah yeah I love you, so whatever it is you can tell me," Ben spoke as he tried to get the words that were worrying her so much.

"I just hope you love me enough to forgive me for what I have done" Maggie quietly sobs began to utter as she tried to get some forgive for herself to know that her marriage was safe that they were good, that she would have him no matter what.

"A long time ago before we were married I made a mistake...I made a huge mistake" Maggie took a big breath and sigh as she began to tell ben what had happened twenty-two years ago, that she was scared for over two decades to tell him

"I've regretted ever since..." She said as she turned away from her husband as she built up the courage to tell him.

"Okay just says it," Ben said frustrated with what was worrying his wonderful wife.

"I slept with Marco..." Maggie ushered as ben gasped and moved away from his wife.

...

"I was young and stupid and when you broke up with me I was shattered. We both were." Maggie said as she reached out her hand on the table to Ben.

"When did it happen," Ben said as his head hung in dismay.

"There was this party, there was this stupid party, and I arrived late and I don't know you knew I was there, and you were laughing with this random girl," Maggie explained what happened that night.

"What girl?" Ben questioning what she was telling him and who was she on about.

"That was just it, she was nothing to you, but I thought that I lost you I really did I was devastated. So I started drinking," and she released her breath before she began speaking again, " and drinking and Marco was there, telling everything was going to be alright, telling me how gorgeous I was and that I could do better and the next thing I knew i was making the worst mistake of my life. Its no excuse, but I knew how'd you feel, that why I didn't tell you about it." Maggie finished telling the story, Ben grabbed his phone and his keys and processed to leave the house. "Ben, don't go!"

...

"Dad!" shouted down the beach

"Dad, are you alright, mum's worried sick about you," Ziggy questioned her dad.

"It's fine." Ben softly spoke

Ziggy questioned concerned over her father spoke: "it's not, what happened, whats going on."

"nothing"

"Ben," Marco asked for his brother when Ben charged down the beach banking and charged towards his brother lunging for him.

"did you sleep with my wife," Ben said lunging to punch his brother for the betrayal that he caused.

Ziggy shouted at her Dad to stop him from punching his brother "Dad."

"Let me explain," Marco asked, as Ben walked away from his brother and towards the sea to get away from them.

"Ben!" Marco said trying to get Ben to listen as Ziggy angrily shushed her uncle as she said: "Don't!"