"After I knew she was your wife… I … I was already in, too deep to stop although I tried, I sincerely did, Shawn," Steffan confessed.
"When I found out about her relationship with you, my initial plan was to give up."
"I even planned to have a talk with Kathleen to make her open up to you about the children especially when I saw how you were suffering because of her, but she refused."
So when she refused to meet me, I had to use the children to threaten her."
"But then things got out of hand as I found myself falling more deeply each time I saw her."
Shawn ran a hand through his hair, a myriad of emotions flickering across his face. He sighed heavily, trying to process the revelations and the shattered trust between them.
To say he was disheartened is an understatement. Everything he held dear seemed to be slipping off his hands and there was nothing he could do about it.
