because you were hard to get. I’m older now and my brain is working. I desire who desires me. Who wants me? In the eleven years of our marriage you have never once, not one fucking time ever approached me for sex. How does that make me feel? I always have initiated sex. I have a wife that doesn’t ever just want to fuck me. What the fuck is that? That’s bullshit.”
“ You are so full of yourself. Everything is always about you…So you love her? You don’t love me anymore?”
I don’ t love Tess but still I couldn’t stab her in the chest. I couldn’t post it on a billboard, although I want to blast it through a megaphone. Although the truth is flying high in the sky for all to see. I still had some semblance of a heart. I couldn’t murder Tess right here in front of me. My words were punching her in the gut.
“Tess I don’t know how I feel about you or us. This has just happened. Now I’m forced to think about things I hadn’t planned on thinking about. ”
“I want to talk to her.”
“Who?”
“Kari, the woman you claim to love, the woman that stole my husband’s love.”
“That will never happen.”
“Why? She can fuck my husband but she can’t look me in the face.”
Kari can fuck me and look Tess in the face but I just don’t want Tess to get her ass kicked. Kari would rip her a new asshole. Tess was out of her league and out of her weight class fucking with Kari Lynn Fenderson.
“I’m not ever going to let that happen.”
“Why?”
“There’s no purpose. No good will come from it.”
“Well then fuck you! And fuck your fat nigger whore!”
Okay she’s mad, racial slurs so typical. I guess that was supposed to make me mad. I’m not. It doesn’t matter what she says. I know how I feel and nothing she does or says will change that. Maybe I should pretend to be upset but I’m really so over this. I’m over her. We’re done.
I stood up and walked out the living room. I grabbed my keys and realized my truck was still parked at the gym.
“Your wedding vows mean nothing to you!” Tess had followed me. “Mason. I’m talking to you!” She was barking at my heels.
“Are you done yet?” I turned to tower over her small frame. “I’m not going to talk to y ou until you can stop yelling. All the name calling isn’t necessary. You need to calm down. I will talk to you when you can talk like a reasonable person.”
I had my other key car on the key-ring with my house key and my truck key. I still had the Maxima so I decided to go for a drive. I left Tess home alone. She needs some alone time. I need some alone time.
I drove to clear my head. I drove to get a breather. I drove because driving helped me to think. I decided to get a hotel. I called Karen and I knew my kids were safe. That was all that mattered to me. I can’t be responsible for everything and everybody. I’m a human man. I’m not Krytonian. I’m not a cyborg and I haven’t been bit by a radioactive spider.
I know in my heart that I no longer love Tess. I have nothing in my heart for her. I have to get out of this marriage for my own sanity. I swear to do it in the most respectful way I can. I will be fair. I can’t live in this unhappy state. Everything is crumbling around me.
CHAPTER 2
I was alone in the hotel room, ironically the same Bolingcreek hotel I pretended to stay at when I was briefly shacking up with Kari. I knew there was no way I could stay the night alone in that house with Tess. She was an enigma to me. The trust we once had for each other had been shattered and broken. Mostly by me but I really didn’t trust her. Her words, her mental status and her actions had betrayed me.
I seat in my hotel room all alone. Being alone gave me too much time to think. I preferred to feel. What would my mother think about this? Would I have started back to seeing Kari if my mother was still alive? I gave Kari up once. I refuse to do it again.
There was a