Amanda utters with utmost disappointment but while still shocked by the revelation she has had, she finds herself at Katherine's place again.
Katherine, unable to sleep, gave a call to James. The phone rang and he picked.
"Hello!" he said with a croaky voice, like bronchitis frog. Clearing his voice, "Hello", he said again.
"James!" Katherine said with a soft voice, a whisper.
"Katherine?" He called anxiously.
"I've been trying to get in touch with you", she sounded whiny as was often the case but with a fear edge James hadn't heard before. She was always so tough and in control.
"I've called you too. We kept missing each other. Where are you?" James asked.
"At home. I need to see you." Katherine replied.
James was half asleep and didn't like the sound of this. She has never called him late like this before. Amanda was in the room with him and so she could get suspicious in a heartbeat.
"Is your wife there?" Katherine asked.
"Yes." James answered after a few seconds of silence
"I need to see you." Katherine urged.
"All right meet me at..." James said but was interrupted by Katherine.
"No, James, I need to see you now. Right now!" She persuaded.
"Right now? It's quarter to 2:00am! No, how could I? My wife would get suspicious if she should wake up and not find me at home." James responded
"Go back to sleep, Katherine, I'll see you Ten O'clock in the morning." James says
"No, James. It has to be now! Right away!" Katherine insisted in a commanding tone.
"IS SOMETHING WRONG?" James asked agitated.
"I'll tell you when we see." Katherine said whispering, as if afraid someone might be listening.
"Okay, I'll come but I won't stay long." James agreed.
She hanged up.
An hour later, James came in through the drive way and parked at the edge of the property where he knew his car won't be spotted.
He knocked and few seconds later, Katherine opened and he walked in.
(Amanda freezes.)
"How did I not know he was cheating on me this whole time" Amanda thinks and apparently feels cheated and heartbroken because all this while, she thought James was a perfect husband and father of their two lovely kids but turns out that he had a deep dark and dirty secret. He was cheating!