She knows he cheated. Paybacks are a bitch

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“That’s all there was to it; it was a bad, very regrettable error but it was a mistake. What you’re trying to do is a whole different ballgame and you know it!” he said harshly. They’d been over this so many times and he was so tired of it.

Peggy shook her head. He saw, she would not–perhaps she could not–accept the idea of Kyle and Ann’s innocence.

“Well, you better find some way to live with it then,” Kyle told her, knowing what the stubborn expression on Peggy’s face meant. “I mean it. If you cheat on me, I’ll kick your ass out so fast your head will spin, woman.”

The look in her eyes told her husband she did not believe it. The rebelliousness was there in the set of her jaw. He sighed and went to bed. It seemed there was nothing he could do to avoid the train wreck he saw coming.

Chapter 4

The coldness lasted for months. Their sex life, which had been improving, plummeted to almost nothing. Kyle had to get used to having sex only once every two or three weeks. To compensate, he frequented the bathroom late at night and masturbated when the pressure became too great.

He put all his excess energy into making sure his children saw none of the strife he and Peggy were going through. Sometimes he was less successful than others. Already distant, he and Peggy acted like they were accidental roomers in the same boarding house. He became closer to his little girl and boy, seeking refuge in their affection from the hostility radiating from his wife.

He taught Todd to tie his shoelaces and worked on improving Todd’s table manners and social skills. Somewhere, at daycare probably, Toddy had picked up the idea that belching at odd moments was hysterically funny. It was hard work convincing him otherwise.

Mandy was undergoing another growth spurt. The chubby legs of a toddler were giving way to the more slender limbs of young girlhood. She was in grade school now. He had worked with Mandy over the winter and early spring, patiently teaching her to read material far beyond a normal six year-old’s comprehension. She spent many an hour on his lap sounding out words and joyfully hugging her father when she found she understood what the pages were saying to her.

Todd had little concept of what they were doing but he joined in his sister and father’s little celebrations, enjoying the warmth of his sibling and Dad’s embrace. There came the day when he was standing at his father’s shoulder as Kyle sat on the couch while Mandy went through a new reader. Todd began pointing out words he recognized and the trio’s bonding intensified.

Peggy watched resentfully, but she was unwilling to become closer with her husband in order to renew an intimacy with her babies. She grew more distant, less willing to compromise, and even more secure in the knowledge she would have a reckoning with Kyle’s infidelity someday, someway.

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Inexplicably, fifteen months after the party where he and Ann inadvertently had a brief encounter, Peggy’s attitude thawed by several magnitudes. The sex picked up, though there was markedly less making love than before, it was better than what he’d been getting. Baby steps, he told himself. Be happy with what you get and work for even more warmth and loving.

A few weeks later, Peggy let him know the training she’d been scheduled for last year was “on” again. She’d be going to Orlando…by herself, she added almost negligently…to get the training that would prepare her for a pay increase and a better job eventually. It would be for a week toward the end of July, she said. She was all innocence and enthusiasm. She worked hard to project the impression that this was a good thing…nothing for him to be concerned about. Kyle knew it was the end.

“How long have you know?” he asked suspiciously. Peggy pulled back. Her attitude became marginally colder.

“The announcement came down from the personnel office two days ago,” she said. She watched his eyes, trying to determine how he would react to the news. What she told him was not a lie. The paperwork had indeed been sent to her when she said. She’d been working with the folks who scheduled the training for a month though. It had been no surprise to her.

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