1. Coloring Outside The Lines


    Date: 1/18/2024, Categories: Loving Wives, Author: byHooked1957

    ... rapid fire.
    
    Much to my surprise, I found out I was still married to Vivian. She hadn't filed for divorce, figuring I'd come back to her for the first year. Then she and her father spent almost two years looking for me, before she spent another year working up the courage to finally approach me to reconcile.
    
    "Reconcile? Seriously? Why?" I asked in more rapid fire. "Four years isn't enough for me to have recovered from you ripping my heart out and acting like the Wicked Bitch of the West. Hell, a lifetime wouldn't be enough time."
    
    "You know I love you. Always have. Always will," Vivian said. "I made a mistake, one hell of a mistake, but still a mistake. I'm sorry for what I did... and sorry for trying to take advantage of your good nature.
    
    "I figured if I hit you with a little shock and awe, I'd overwhelm you, and you'd have no choice but to go along with it. I also didn't think you'd give me up for a weekend of sex; sex, not love. Wasn't having children and spending the rest of our lives together enough of a trade-off for a weekend of sex?"
    
    "You knew me better than anybody," I said. "You knew how I felt about fidelity. You blatantly rubbed my face in it. I won't take that kind of disrespect from anybody, even from my loving wife."
    
    She looked around the room, her eyes stopping for a few seconds on Bobbie and Elinore.
    
    "It looks like you recovered very nicely," she said. "Almost like you didn't waste any time at all.
    
    "By the way, your asshole boss back ...
    ... home really had your back. He kept telling Dad's investigators that Quincy Navarro didn't work there anymore, when you had just moved offices and started going by your middle name. Dad finally got a court order to look at Bishop's employment records, and then he remembered that your middle name is Oliver. After that, I just had to find the guts to approach you."
    
    "Okay, you've approached me," I said. "Even if I was the biggest dumbass in history, I've got a family now that I'd never throw away. I've got a beautiful woman whom I love and who I completely trust with my heart. She respects me and I her. We've got a beautiful daughter who we will cherish long after she grows into a beautiful woman.
    
    "We are an us. I love being part of an us. Remember, once upon a time I told you there was no I in team, no I in us."
    
    My volume had risen considerably, almost to a shout. For the first time, Vivian truly looked remorseful. I took a quick look at Bobbie and Elinore. Bobbie looked shocked. Elinore looked frightened. I walked over to my girls and we hugged fiercely. I looked at my little girl and whispered, "It'll be all right, sweetie."
    
    "I get it now Q," Vivian said quietly as she looked at us. "I'll file for divorce based on abandonment as soon as I get home. I don't need anything from you financially. But would I be out of line to ask you to forgive me for being a selfish bitch?"
    
    "I can try, Viv, but that's the best I can do. Maybe in time..." I rasped.
    
    Vivian got up off ...
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