Chapter 1: How My World Crumbled

PRESENT DAY (year 2020)

"Are you f*ckin' kidding me right now?" Queshia asked, tears starting to well up in her eyes.

"I wish I was baby, I am really really sorry..." Maverick pleaded crying.

"Now, you're sorry? Because what? Because you impregnated that wh*re? How could you even cheat on me? Where did I even go wrong?" Queshia now asks while tears roll down her eyes. She could not believe this was happening right now. She wanted to wake up from this nightmare, but unfortunately, it was really happening before her eyes. Oh how she wished it was just a nightmare.

"I-I don't know, I really don't know what had gotten in me when I started to cheat on you. I just feel so much guilt now and I could not take it anymore, I realized how great you were with me, how much sacrifices you made for me, and I can't even begin to tell you how stupid I was for making this mistake." Maverick tried explaining while still crying and kneeling in front of Queshia.

"If I did nothing wrong, then... Why? And did you only realize now about my sacrifices for you for seven whole years?! What? Is this the seven-year itch people are talking about? I, I don't know what to say anymore...What did I ever do to even deserve this? I dedicated my whole life for you. Please tell me this is just a stupid sick joke." Queshia speaks, still with disbelief. She wanted to hear from him that this is just a sick joke he is playing on her, but at the same time, she knows he would not do that, but hoped that it was better if he just made this as a sick joke rather than what is really happening at the moment.

"No, No, I told you, you never did anything wrong, this is all my fault... Please don't leave me, punch me, slap me, hurt me all you want, just please, I am begging you... please do not ever leave me, please..." Maverick begs and pleads to Queshia.

"If you can't answer me WHY then When? When did this all start? and Where? Where did you meet her?" Queshia demanded while staring at him, still feeling numb.

"Before I got deployed. I met her outside the camp." Maverick answered quietly.

"Before? Before you got deployed? My f*cking birthday?? Was it after my birthday? Before my birthday? Outside your camp? We celebrated my birthday there with my friends. Is that why you were late? You made sure your mistress is not in the way? Wow. Just wow. You really are something alright. You are such a piece of sh*t, that's what you are." Queshia responded crying.

"I'm sorry. I don't remember, and I don't want to remember anymore..." Maverick said, wanting to forget everything like it could help him erase what he had done to his wife.

"You were so arrogant before you got deployed, that you will not be the same with your mates and buddies. That you were different! Oh hell yes, you were different! THEY KNOW HOW TO USE A F*CKING CONDOM AND YOU DON'T! With all the ladies that you have f*cked, and none of them got pregnant, how sure are you that the kid is even yours to begin with? Was that the reason why you kept asking me if I was infertile?? And now you are going to blame me that I can't give you a baby? Is that it?" Queshia responded enraged.

"I, I don't think that she would lie about that. I don't think she's that kind of person." Maverick tries to explain.

"Wow, so you know her too well now huh? Do you love her?" Queshia asked with aching heart.

"No... I don't know... Maybe? But I do know I love you and I don't want to lose you Queshia..." Maverick answered with confusion. He does not know whether what he felt with his mistress could even be called love. He does not know anything anymore. All he knows is that he does not want to lose Queshia. And that he truly loves her.

"Then leave me and be with her. Tell my family and your family what you've done and then leave!" Queshia said surprisingly calm. Thinking that maybe too much pain really does leave you numb, but she is also afraid that with all these numbness she was feeling at the moment, will not last for long.

"No, I love you Queshia, please...that is all I know for now. I don't want to leave you, and you to leave me..." Maverick still begs her.

"Do what you want. Let me rest." Queshia responded tiredly.

All what was inside Queshia's mind were, how it was the start of the pandemic due to Covid-19, and Queshia just got laid off from work, and now this news. Is the kid really her husband's? What will happen now? How will they live? Will he be seeing his child? Or just supporting financially? Will they be meeting the mistress? And a lot more questions to be left unanswered. Like what else could go wrong with all these bad news? Is there even a lot more worse news than all these?

Unfortunately, there was still to be the worst news ever. 

The week passed by like nothing happened when they are in front of Queshia's family, since they only live beside their house. Maverick was also not his usual quirky self, and was very good to Queshia and cooking her food, serving her drinks and everything. He was starting to be the best husband he could be for Queshia, despite having a mistress and an illegitimate child. This was all he could think of to make it up to her. He did all the chores and everything and also, he did not banter with any of her demands, though she does not talk much.

After that week comes the unfortunate news...