CHAPTER THREE

Tina’s POV

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It isn’t as I imagined it would be. I thought I would come home and prepare a speech in my head, I would wait for him to walk through the front door and then I’d just throw it at him. If I didn’t think I could do it, I would summon the image of the beautiful and strong Bette Porter. 

I was so sure that he once again would be home late and I would confront him when it was already dark outside, late into the night. I look up in wonderment when I hear the sound of keys and the door opening when it’s only 5 pm. I almost get angry at him for coming home early, for the one time I wish he didn’t.

He peeks around the wall and gives me his most charming smile – the one that would make me swoon at any other time, the one that would make me forgive him anything. But not now.

“Eric, could you sit down, please?”

He frowns his eyebrows in confusion and shrugs her shoulders. “Sure; let me just bring this to my office.”

He walks towards the room only he uses, I don’t even know why he spends all his time in there when he is already at the office for so long. You can be busy, but nobody has to his job literally non-stop. He comes back without his suitcase. He’s loosened his tie and slumps down in the sofa in front of me. Why does even this minor detail bother me? The fact he rarely sits next to me?

I take a deep breath and decide not to stick to the little words I already had in my head. I didn’t have the chance to prepare a full speech, and frankly, I don’t think he deserves an entire explanation. He chooses to do everything behind my back, but I’m going to be up front with him.

“Eric Myers, are you cheating on me?” I say in one breath. I can’t believe the words actually left my mouth, they’re out there now, somewhere in between us. He looks truly perplexed and I don’t know if I should feel offended because he can’t understand how I figured out, or relieved because it means he isn’t.