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The Legacy, Chapter 3: Echoes
Date: 3/29/2015, Categories: Wife Lovers, Author: stormdog100, Rating: 24, Source: LushStories
pregnant with Robby…right after, I suppose. It wasn’t something we ever intended, Robert, and I’m so very sorry I hurt you.” He shook his head and wondered at the irony of the fact that her affair had begun at almost the same time that his own mistakes had ended. “So, all this time…” She nodded. “Yes…not often. Sometimes, still – well, I suppose that’s obvious!” He smiled as he touched the baby’s head. “Yes, it is. How…or maybe why is a better question. Why did it start?” She took a deep breath and then blew it out. “Well, there was this huge storm – you know how I hate storms. Henry stayed with me, late into the night. The power lines went down, and we talked; I think…Robert, I think I seduced him. It’s not his fault, you can’t blame Henry; this is all on me. It may have been something that had been building for a long time, but it’s entirely my fault. All of it.” “You were lonely, Beth. Lonely and frightened, and he was there. I wasn’t, and that’s my fault. For much of our life together I haven’t been there for you, because of my job. I love it, but I love you and the kids more; I should have done better by you.” He sighed and looked away, out the window toward the forest on the horizon, beyond the parking lot. “But Henry…” He paused, and then went on. “But Henry is a grown man, Beth; he knew what he was doing…if we’re going to assign blame, there’s enough here for all three of us.” In a strange way he found that he was relieved that the child’s father was Henry – that if ...