1. Action, Reaction and Consequences Ch. 08


    Date: 4/11/2024, Categories: Loving Wives, Author: byInkent

    ... turned to the bar to order the drinks.
    
    Matt took the drinks back to their allocated VIP table then walked off into the club, away from the VIP area. He had a glut of feelings that overcame him. Hatred, shock, surprise, sadness...and loss. He had lost his beautiful wife forever, how the hell did this happen? How did his wife throw their relationship away to end up looking like that. It was obvious that she was in an intimate relationship with the thug back there she was with but, what had driven her to do it?
    
    Matt tried to block it from his mind. He drank, danced and flirted until he knew he was drunk to the point, he'd likely pass out. Staggering from the club, he made it back to the hotel and into his room. He dropped on the bed with his head spinning. Snippets from his earlier meeting with Tanya played dizzily in his mind. Crawling off the bed, he just about made it to the bathroom to wrap his arms around the toilet bowl as he started to heave up the contents of his stomach. He ended up passing out on the floor.
    
    The warm water made Matt come to. Groggy and unsure where he was, he found himself sitting fully clothed on the floor of the walk-in shower. Looking up he could see someone standing outside.
    
    "Sorry mate but, you've puked all over yourself. I thought the best thing I could do was drag you under the shower. I'll go make a cup of coffee. If I was you, I'd get out those clothes, clean them as best you can in the shower and stick them over the radiator so ...
    ... they can start to dry."
    
    It was Mark, his colleague from his Watch, who he was sharing a room with. Matt nodded and started to pull himself up from the floor to strip and get cleaned up. Ten minutes later, he emerged from the bathroom in a robe and sat on the bed. Mark passed him a cup of strong black coffee.
    
    "Ok Matt, I'll not pry but, that was you knew that woman who bumped into you back in the club. I lived in a world where we survived by reading people's faces and actions to make sure we could stay alive so, I know there's a lot more to this than meets the eye."
    
    Matt looked at the floor and burst into tears. He was overcome by the grief of losing his wife and seeing her, despite the fact he hated her for what she'd done to him. As he regained his composure, he spoke and ran through his whole life, from the accident as a child until today.
    
    "Hold up Matt." Mark interrupted. "Did you say that the married guy was called Lance? Damn, I think I know of him, it's a small world. He wasn't part of my unit but, we were in the same camp. I remember him vaguely. His wife couldn't click with the other wives in the married quarters so, they moved off camp somewhere down the coast. It was the chatter amongst the wives that she'd done it to get a 'hall pass'. She was being ostracised by the other wives, if I remember correctly."
    
    Matt continued his story until he reached the point where they were now sitting talking. Other than Tanya's former boss Graham, he had never told ...
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