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Uncaged
Date: 9/4/2016, Categories: Cheating, Author: SITTING, Rating: 26, Source: LushStories
that wasn’t holding hers rested on her bare knee. “It’s already happening, isn’t it?” he breathed. “You never saw it, but now you do. You don’t have to deny it. It doesn’t mean anything to me. It’s about you. And you could get away from it all right now. Leave everything behind before you get hurt too badly.” Isla tried to stop her mind working but it was already going over the last few months, picking up on the secretive phone calls, on Jeff’s late nights at the office, on Colleen, his red-haired secretary, who she suddenly remembered as being almost offensively beautiful. God, no. No. No . Just because a stranger said some stuff it didn’t mean anything. Jeff loved her. Of course he did. And tonight they would celebrate five years of married life. He was loyal. Of course he was. He was perfect. And yet, the small seed of doubt that Heath had planted was already growing into a deep-rooted weed. “Why’d you have to say that?” Isla said, and she had to bite her lip hard to stop it trembling. “Why couldn’t you just keep your mouth shut?” Heath didn’t smile. He didn’t look triumphant. He looked almost sad. “I don’t know. You just remind me of myself so much.” Isla felt his hand inch up her leg and rest on her thigh, his fingers almost caressing it. Her eyes darted to the other people waiting at the bus-stop. Without her realising it, a crowd of commuters had formed to wait for the bus. None of them were looking at her. They were absorbed in their phones and tablets, or simply ...