14. Dante

Fuck! I shouldn't have done that. I was half asleep and that was a scenario I'd imagined more than I care to count so I reacted instinctively. When you wake up with your wife in your arms, the only logical thing to do is kiss her good morning. If she hadn't left to use the bathroom, I'm afraid I would have done more than that. When I got in bed last night, I had every intention of waking up after she'd settled down. But the longer she was in my arms, the more reluctant I felt to let her go. Next thing I know, she's nudging me awake and I'm kissing her and asking her to come right back. As if I have any right to do any of that.

She might be my wife but she didn't choose to marry me. Just like her parents forced her to marry that bastard, I also did the same thing. She was scared into marrying me without knowing about my obsession with her. I allowed her to go to school so that when we part ways, she wouldn't have to rely on her family. And we will part ways eventually because the last