She knows he cheated. Paybacks are a bitch

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“Did you think I wouldn’t know what you were going to do, Peggy?” he said softly. “My God…you were practically bubbling over with anticipation the past few weeks. I knew there was only one thing that would get you that excited. Everything you did, every smile you smiled into space told me you were finally going to have your revenge on me. It was so obvious, Peggy.

“And, Peggy, did you not know credit card companies send out advertisements and “special offers” every few weeks to their customers? You had the bills sent to the Post Office box you thought I didn’t know about…but sometimes they send things to the residence on the account too. Hell, I knew about that new credit card you got just about as soon as you got it, woman.” He was quiet for a moment.

“Kyle,” Peggy said tentatively. “Honey, I…I was wrong. It’s all come crashing down on me…I got fired this afternoon…I don’t know why…I know I’ve hurt you, baby. I’m so…I feel so stupid. I…”

“Peggy, quit calling me “baby” and “honey” and all those other things. You have no right to say those words to me…not after what you’ve done,” Kyle told her. He didn’t say anything more for a few seconds.

“I will agree with you though, you have been stupid,” he added. “I tried to tell you that you needed to let go of this fixation on revenge. I tried a hundred times to tell you…but you wouldn’t listen,” he said bitterly. “You had to have it your way…and the reason you got fired is up on the mantle, Peggy,” he added. “I sent Mr. Bruckmeister an 8×10 of that photo. It turns out he has the same opinion I do about employees who deceive their husbands and use a company trip to have sex with strangers. Oh…the termination slip will say something different, but you got canned because they don’t trust you anymore…no more than I do.”

Peggy tried to digest what Kyle was telling her. It was too much to take in all at once. She let the problem with her job go for the moment. Her marriage was far more important.

“Hon…Kyle,” she said hesitantly. “You wanted me to forgive you when you and Ann…when the mistake happened. Can’t you…can’t we work this out? I don’t care what I have to do to make it up to you…can’t you forgive me? I’m so, so sorry for what I’ve done to you.” Tears were streaking down her cheeks.

“Forgive? I don’t have anything to forgive you with, Peggy,” Kyle forthrightly. “You’ve worn me down…worn away all the love I had for you right down to the quick. There’s nothing left.”

Peggy started crying harder. There was such finality in Kyle’s weary voice. She was suddenly cold and afraid sitting in the den where she and Kyle had shared many an evening.

“Don’t you love me anymore?” she sobbed.

“Yeah, I do…a little bit, Peggy,” Kyle said truthfully. “Love isn’t something you quit doing on the spur of the moment.

“But I’ll learn,” he said defiantly. “It’s hard, but I’ll learn not to love you, Peggy. What the hell? This has been coming for a long time anyway. I’m so tired of the ways you kept trying to manipulate me and the kids…and everyone else around you…just so you would never have to give anything of yourself beyond a certain limit you set up.

“I think I see your mother in that,” Kyle said thoughtfully. “From the time Mandy was born…and even more when we had Todd…I’ve sensed something…a…oh, I don’t know.” He tried again. “Maybe it’s something like…well, it’s like you were convinced all you owed me was a child or two and when that was done, any love or respect for me as your husband…and a man…had to be pulled out of you. I don’t know why, but you sure seemed to be rationing your affections awfully tightly the past few years.”

“Kyle…that wasn’t the way I feel at all,” Peggy moaned. “I’ve loved you since the day I saw you on campus that day. I can’t live without you.”

“Well, you’re going to have to,” Kyle responded briskly. “I don’t know how you got the way you are, but ever since that dress thing, Peggy…ever since that damned dress, you’ve acted like our marriage was a war you had to win at all costs. Even the dress was a contest. You had to have it, and to get it you lied to me. Hell, you’ve been lying ever since about one thing or another.

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