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"Happiness isn't everything! Responsibility, being smart about how your choices effect your future and the people around you! Those matter just as much as momentary..." My father once said this to me, a lecture actually, the day that Robert and I had confessed to him over a luncheon that we had fallen in love, and had every intension of being together and staying together no matter what the cost, we were hopelessly in love; and of course he was none too pleased with us, mainly me. THAT DAMN HYPOCRITE! Was all I could think and feel about my father now or better yet again!

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" SIR WALTER SCOTT 1808. You know for someone like my father who considered himself and educated well learn it and read man, I guess he must have skipped this one quote! How convenient!

ROBERT SULLIVAN'S POV – IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE STATION'S HALLOWEEN PARTY

All I wanted to do was to surprise and give my wife, the love of my life the best and most pleasureful sex filled fantasy night of her life, was that too much to ask? Evidently it was; I had been topped not once, not twice but three times! You have no idea how much I wished in that moment that I could've been able to read minds, the whole drive home after the nightmare of the Halloween party was miserable, first there was the return of Kyle Lang my old pal slash kidnapper of our daughter resurfacing and then the revelation that Andy's father the late Captain Pruitt Herrera had actually fathered another child, a SON named ERIC ALONSO, and as it turned out he was not more than three and a half years younger than Andy too, if it was almost damn near too much for me to process myself, I couldn't even begin to imagine or begin to know what the hell Andy must have been thinking or feeling, as she just stared out the passenger side window the entire ride home.

I had pulled into the driveway, we just sat in the car for a long awkward moment before Andy finally reached down and with her uninjured hand unbuckled her seat belt and turned to me, "Babe will you get Christina and put her to bed?" She said in an almost too calm and casual way, it totally caught me off guard I didn't know what to make of her laid back relaxed behavior, I guess you'd call it that, "Uh yeah sure, but uh, do you want too..." she interrupted me, "Thanks babe," she said leaning over and gently kissing me before popping open the passenger side door and getting out and going into the house, I sat there at a complete loss I'm not gonna lie, "What just happened?" I said out loud to myself.

Once in the house and a few moments later I had walked up the stairs and put my sweet little Tina into her crib as she continued to sleep peacefully, I turned the baby monitor on and quietly tip-toed out cracking her nursery room door, I crossed over and down the hallway into the master bedroom, Andy was already in bed wearing one of my old crew shirts one of her favorites in fact, she laid there motionless just staring up at the ceiling, yep okay I thought, now I know what she's thinking and even more heartbreaking feeling, my heart just bled for my wife, it wasn't bad enough about all the terrible things that she had learned about both of her parents now this? Yep if Pruitt Herrera were still alive having died heroically or not I still would've kicked his ass for this, I thought, as I crossed over into our master suite bathroom, I turned on the faucet in the tub and filled it with Andy's favorite honey and milk bath salts and matching bubble bath soaps, I lit the few candles that were scattered around the bathroom and turned off the lights allowing for the candles to be the only true source of lighting, once the tub was filled at the length of the water that I wanted, I turned the faucet back off and crossed back over into our bedroom, I stepped over to Andy and towered over her, she refused to make eye contact with me, I knew she was focused on doing everything she could in her power to not cry, I could tell I knew my wife well enough by this point, "Andy come on lets go," I said warmly in a soft tone, "No babe I'm good honest," she said still refusing to acknowledge me for fear of falling apart into a puddle of tears, "Okay then babe have it your way," I said and with that I effortlessly scooped Andy up into my arms and carried her into the bathroom, "Robert Kristoff Sullivan you put me down this instant!" She shouted at me trying to wiggle free but couldn't, "Fine have it your way," I said setting her down and before she could run back into the bedroom I grabbed her shirt from behind pulling her back over to me, "Robert let go of me I mean it!" She said as her voice cracked she was on the verge of tears I could see it and hear it in her voice.