MIKE
Watching Shana lay in that hospital bed made my body quiver. My phone kept ringing. I looked down at it and saw that it was Joseline for the 11th time. I declined the call and grab Shana's hand. Listening to the heart monitor of our baby gave me such a reassuring feeling that we'd get through this, even if Shana said she hated me.
I heard me wife groan as she blinked her eyes in confusion. I grabbed her right hand as she touched her stomach with her left hand. She turned instantly to look at the screen to make sure our baby was ok. She sighed in relief and closed her eyes with a smile. Instantly her smile dropped and her eyes shot open with fury. Shana snatched her hand away from me and looked at me with disgust.
"Why are you here" Shana asked me staring at the TV. I knew she wasn't watching it but it kept her from looking at me, which I was okay with because I was to ashamed to be looked at.
"I love you baby. And I love our baby. I'm sorry Shana! I swear I am. I can fix this." I pleaded with her.
"Don't you need to check on your mistress and your child. I mean they do come first right? Since the woman you've been with for 15 years means absolutely nothing to you."
"Baby please...you mean everything to me" I tried to interject.
"I mean NOTHING to you" Shana turned and looked at me sharply. "You have the audacity to have an affair with someone funky ass, low grade, social climbing hussie and say I mean everything to you." Shana was now sobbing but still making her words very clear to me.
"You thought of her enough and not me at all that you had sex with her raw. Now that's love!" she hissed in a sarcastic way which stung me to my soul. She tried to calm down but I could tell she was fuming in the inside.
"How ironic. Your wife and your mistress pregnant and the same time." Tears continued rolling down her cheek. I leaned in and kissed her. Surprisingly she kissed me back. It was passionate and for a moment everything seemed like it was going to be okay.
"I'm sorry baby" I layed my head on her stomach and felt a kick. My heart fluttered and I looked at Shana with joy in my eyes. She started to sob covering her face with her hands. I kissed my wife passionately and once again she let me. I could taste her sweetness along with her the salt from her tears as the still streamed down her face. She pushed me off her.
"I loved you" she said looking at me, making sure I heard exactly what she was saying.
"Loved?" I questioned Shana.
"I want a divorce" she said it with a certainty in her voice that made our whole life flash before me. My spine shuttered and my legs felt weak. I'm losing my family right before my eyes.
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SHANA
I wanted to kick him in his face. I wanted nothing to do with him.
"You don't mean that" he kissed my lips and my heart sunk for this would be the last time I'd kiss those soft luscious lips. I embraced it because I knew I'd miss him.
He took a step back and looked me in my eyes. For he knew different.
"I can't do this. I can't see you everyday knowing you fathered a tramps child. I can't see you and know that you took my dick and gave it to another woman and now she's pregnant. I have to break this cycle! I can't stay with you just because that's what my mom did." I couldn't stop sobbing.
So much going through my mind when the nurse walked in asking was everything okay. She needed me to calm down as the baby's heart rate was unsteady. I shot a look at my husband. This was all his fault.
"How long" I asked sternly as soon as the nurse left out of the room. He looked at me with eyes of confusion. "How long were you with her.
He responded slowly, "Almost a year". I almost snatched the IV out of my arm trying to get to him. I wanted to kill him in that moment. I couldn't get the word "year" out of my head. What the hell have I been doing for a year. I've done all I've supposed to do. I cook, clean and f?$& him good. I can't believe this.
"I'm sorry Shana! Please calm down. At least for the baby!" Mike stated with concern in his voice. I started to take deep breaths. I was livid. I hadn't felt like this since I was a little girl. How dare this man! I thought I knew him.
"How far along is she" I demanded. He stood there sobbing and because he wouldn't look at me I knew it was bad. "She's 8 months" the words came stammering out of his mouth like glass shards.
All of a sudden my body experienced convulsions and my stomach had a cramp like nothing I've ever felt which caused me to let out a scream. Everything seemed blurry and then it went dark.