The Road Less Traveled Novel – My husband of six years has been having an affair with another woman for four years! My heart tightened as I heard the car door close. “God” He’s home! I quickly stuffed the disposable phone and the photo of another undressed woman back into its hiding place in Eric’s dresser drawer. My life of lies unfolded before me and I could only cry. “I have a bit of bad news.” “What your bimbo is pregnant?” I thought to myself as I reluctantly peered up at him. “What’s that?” I asked him feeling empty. “We are going to have to postpone our family vacation next week. I have to go out of town for a week, on business…” “Work” He belittled me with this face knowing full well he was leaving us to go screw some cow named Krystal for five days! I had to pretend I didn’t know about this and I was going to take my child and run away from this demon.
Nevaeh P.O.V. My heart tightens in my chest when I hear the car door slam. “God” He is home! I scream in my mind as I scramble to put back all of the recent evidence that I have discovered that my Husband of six years has been having an affair with other women for four! I hurry to shove the burner phone and photos of another undressed woman back into their hiding places in Eric’s dresser drawer. he usually locked this drawer with a key but for whatever reason it was left open this morning and when I went to close it I saw a photo. When I picked it up it was a woman dressed in a red lingerie. I began pulling everything from the drawer and scattering it across the floor. My life of lies unfolded right in front of me and all I could do was sob. On the phone I found more photos and video footage of them funking nearly threw up at the sound of her moaning and sputtering as my husband shoved his shaft down her throat. The text was the worst part of all of it.
He belittled me in every single one. Saying how I let myself go after the kids. How it made him sick to touch me after I had gained so much weight. I sat on this floor and cried my whole heart out. I thought he loved me. He said he would help me work out and lose the weight, but every time I would ask he always had something more important to do. or he would say that I needed to learn to motivate myself. I was willing to change everything about myself to appease him. All the while he had some other woman in his bed doing just that. My heart was pounding fiercely in my chest as I hurried to wipe away any running mascara from my face making sure to remove any sign that I had been crying. I wasn’t ready to confront him. I wasn’t ready for him to know what I now knew. I wanted to take my time and figure this out, but with every creek on the floor signaling me that he was getting closer to me. I could feel bile rising in my throat. I hurried and picked up my phone to text my big brother Alec.
“I need you to come pick me and the kids up right away.” “I will explain later please just pick us up it is and emergency.” I sent the text and laid my phone face down in my lap just as Eric walked into the room. I have to leave him there is no way I can continue to live here without him knowing the truth. I just needed an excuse to go without making him suspicious. If he found out what I was up to he would find a way to stop me and I am so broken right now that I just might let him. Ugh! I hate him! How could he do something like this to me? I would have given my life for this man… No scratch that I did give my life for him and this is the thanks I get. He shits on me behind my back then comes home and plays the part of the loving doting husband. I swallowed a gag as I watched him kick his shoes off and pad across the room to hang his coat up in the closet.
After hanging it up he turned to me. “You sure are quiet Nevi.” I shook my head and smiled halfheartedly as I waved him off. He shrugged and began to unbutton his shirt. “Well, I am afraid I won’t be able to turn your frown upside down today, baby… I have a bit of bad news.” “What your bimbo is pregnant?” I thought to myself as I reluctantly peered up at him. “What’s that?” I asked him feeling empty. “We are going to have to postpone our family vacation next week. I have to go out of town for a week, on business…” “I swear it’s like they can’t get anything done without me…” He chuckled like an entitled prick as he sorted through his things for post-shower garments. Before now I never realized how much of a prick he was.
Every word out of his mouth was like nails on a chalkboard and I could barely stand it. My blood boiled as I glared at him. “A whole week! WOW! It must be a big deal.” I feigned my disappointment and cursed him in my heart. After today this son of a bimbo was dead to me and I planned to bury him six feet under my boots where he belonged. He tilted his head to the side and made a pouty face. I use to think he was so cute when he did that stupid. Now it just made me wanna knock the empty thing straight off his shoulders. He was taunting me and I never put two and two together until now. Every time I got upset that he was setting me and his children aside for… “Work” He belittled me with this face knowing full well he was leaving us to go screw some cow named Krystal for five days! — Nevaeh P.O.V. I almost lunged at him.
I wanted nothing more than to punch him straight in his pea-sized shaft. I would be doing service to the world by taking his ability to have children. I mean he didn’t deserve them. “No worries the kids and I will just go to my brothers for the week since the kids already have a week out of school for spring break.”He grumbled at me as he undressed for the shower. I looked away. If this was anything like what he was feeling about me, then I understand why he wouldn’t wanna touch me. Because right now I wouldn’t touch his hazardous hip with a ten-foot gaiter pole. “Sure that’s fine you just make sure you keep that jerk from filling my kid’s heads up with nonsense about me.” He spoke in a muffled voice as he stepped into the shower. “Of course,” I said as I got up and started looking around for luggage. Both of my kids were in school right now. So I had just enough time to pack the essentials and throw them in the car before they needed to be picked up. “When is your flight?” I called out to Eric as I rushed around the room gathering some small things I would need. “I know it sucks baby but my flight leaves in just a few hours.” “You have got to be kidding me.” I huffed under my breath.
I put a hand over my chest as tears threatened to push their way from my eyes. How could he do this? How can he pretend like everything is perfectly normal as he lies to his family? I believed he loved me. Of course, Eric has always been a little controlling and arrogant, but I always took that as him being protective and confident. My heart stung with betrayal as I finally put together the fact that my husband was just trying to control me. So I wouldn’t find out about his double life. “I think I have time for a quickie.” I froze and my body shook with disgust. I was not going to sleep with him but I also didn’t want to alarm him about my plan to take the kids and leave him as he may try to stop me. He turned me around to face him and then dipped down to peck me I avoided it and said, “I have a lot to do before the kids get home.” He withdrew and huffed impatiently.
“Yes and I have a flight to catch and you see me making time for you!.” He pushed me against the wall and rubbed his shaft on my thigh. ’Eric please!” I gasped as I struggled to elude him, but it only seemed to turn him on more. “Yeah, baby that’s what I wanna hear beg daddy for this co….” Just then there was a thunderous knock on the front door. Eric stopped his assault on me and turned in the direction of the door. “Who is that?” — Nevaeh P.O.V. I shrugged my shoulders and moved away from him. He let go of me and smacked my bottom as I walked past him. I tried to ignore my instincts to shrink away from him. I walked over to the door and unlocked it. When I opened it, my heart suddenly felt lighter. “Oh, thank God” I whispered as I fell into my brother’s arms. “Nevi?” He whispered back in concern as he caught me.
I quickly released him when I heard Eric approach us from behind. “Well, I have a flight to catch… bye baby…” How had he gotten fully dressed that quickly? I looked down and saw that he had already been packed. “Out of no were my hip” I mumbled as he grabs the back of my neck and pecks me passionately. “I will see you when I get home baby.” He said as he brushed his still firm shaft against my hip as he moved passed. “Oh… and do me a favor, please… Take the kids to my mom when I get back… So, you can wear that gift I got you.” He winked at me and stepped into the car. I stood there… Frozen as all of the blood in my body ran cold as ice. I held my breath as I watched him drive away. A sense of violation washed over me as I stood there trying not to throw up or cry. “Nevi?” My brother whispered again as he gently touched my arm.
The breath I had been holding whooshed out of me nearly making me pass out. I looked at him in his worried concerned eyes and my resolve Just crumbled away. Tears began flooding my face as I broke out into a full-on sob. My brother took me by the shoulders and led me into the house. “Breath Nevi” “I’m here it’s going to be okay…” “What did he do to you?” “Did he hurt you?” His fist balled up at his side. I took a deep breath to stop crying and looked up at him. “We need to grab some things for the kids because they get out of school soon… So, I don’t have time to.” I tried to think through my grief. My big brother stopped me and pulled me into a hug. “He will pay for all this.”