Love & Fate Series: The Thrown Away Girl

Colt's POV

It’s been a long Wednesday. Negotiations and contracts. The flight home was a mess of layovers and waiting around. I kept texting Belle, but I never got a response. I guess she was busy at work or something… I didn’t have anything to say, I was just checking in on her. I don’t like leaving her for so long… She can’t do anything on her own. I’m hoping she didn’t burn the house down trying to make toast.

I made it home a day early. I’m planning on surprising my wife with a night out. She’s been begging to get out for a while now, and it just wasn’t happening. I’ve been busy with my security company, trying to expand it. She said she understands and she is excited for me. But I’ve been overworked and now I just want to breathe and relax… Spending a little time with my wife.

I sigh as I readjust my bag over my shoulder and insert my key into my keyhole. I shove the door open and freeze.

And so do the two naked people on the couch.

In a moment, everything around me is spinning. The two people I was supposed to trust the most in my life give me guilty looks. Their bodies flushed and sweaty with their vigorous activities… Who knows how long they’ve been at this. But there they are, frozen in between ecstasy and terror.

Belle’s head thrown back with her disheveled blond curls reaching down to her waist… A waist that Jack is digging his fingers into her flesh to pull her closer to him, holding her in place, and his greedy mouth around her full breast.

I don’t know what to think. My stomach twists in disgust… And to think I was inside her two days ago while she begged me not to stop… I wonder how long this has been going on. I swallow to keep the bile down that is trying to make its way up my throat.

Well, now I know why my partner was so insistent I didn’t need him for this project. To be honest, I didn’t need him. This whole damn company is mine, but he was my best friend. In high school I thought it would be cool if we went into business together and made a home security company… I came up with B&B Home Security back then. When we grew up I drew up a contract, saying he could have equal shares of my company as long as we worked together and we didn’t cheat each other… Well that plan was all blown to hell.

My wife on the other hand… She had been pushing me hard for this contract. She couldn’t kick me outta the house fast enough Monday morning. Subtlety is not her thing. Apparently neither is fidelity.

Never once in my entire time I was with her did I look at another woman. I never lusted after someone I couldn’t have. I was happy with the fact I had a wife… Well, at least I thought I was happy… But now that I think about it, maybe happy was the wrong word… Maybe I was just comfortable with what we had and didn’t want to rock the boat.

I watch as the color drains from both of their faces and realization lights their eyes. They are literally screwed. There is nothing that can make this better. There is no way to spin this so this turns out happy for them… Well, maybe them. But definitely not with me in the picture, and they know it.

“Baby, this isn’t what it looks like-” Belle rushes to assure me, trying to unsuccessfully remove her body from Jack’s appendage while still looking like she had some dignity… It didn’t work.

“Man… I don’t…” Jack swallows hard. I don’t know what he was about to say but he swallowed it fast. Smart move. There is nothing I want to hear from him ever again, except for his retreating feet from my house.

I’m not sure what I look like right now, but there is fear in their faces… Normally, I’m very calm and controlled when it comes to my emotions. I’m normally good under pressure, which is why I wanted to work in home security. I like to fix problems… But this… There is nothing to fix.