Cloyingly Sweet - Part II She touched him. Sometime in the day, today, Denise Perez touched her husband's collar. She rose from the table wordlessly and raced to the bathroom, barely making it time to position herself over the toilet and empty the contents of her stomach. She heaved hard, tears streaming down her cheeks and she heard his footsteps approaching as she kept her eyes closed. He was holding her hair back and asking her what was wrong. She slapped him away; aware she was potentially fucking up a sting operation for the morning but unable to stop herself. "Your shirt stinks. Get away from me." She was furious as he backed away in alarm. "What do you mean my shirt stinks?" he lifted it up and sniffed She didn't miss the way his eyes rounded for a fraction and then shook his head. "I don't smell anything." He was gaslighting her. Son of a bitch. "I do." 1/5 11:37 "Okay," he immediately unbuttoned it and shrugged out of it, dropping it into the hamper. "Maybe you're smelling the bathroom spray or something from work, but I don't smell it. I don't know why it's made you sick though." "Must be my headache." "You've never suffered a headache which made you throw up before," he watched her with concern in his eyes as she cupped water from the bathroom sink into her mouth and spat it out. "I'm worried honey. Maybe the stress of all this baby making pressure is getting to you. What if we stepped back a bit?" "You don't want a baby now?" she whirled on him furiously. "No. I do. I do want to have a baby. I want to grow our family. I'm just worried for you. You're stressed. You're getting headaches you never used to get. You're throwing up, now. Friday I missed the appointment and usually you understand work things, but you didn't talk to me again until Saturday. It's a lot of pressure we're putting on you. It's all on you and I hate that we're doing this to you. If I could take it on me, I would but I feel guilty that it's you that is stressing over this the most." He wrapped his arms around her, holding her head to his bare chest and kissed the top of her head, "baby, I'm really worried about you." "I need to lay down," she whispered as tears streamed down her cheeks, grateful she couldn't smell the perfume on his bare skin. At least his clothes had been on today. She pulled herself out of 2/5 11:37 his embrace, hating herself for hating him. Could it be bathroom spray? She knew his habits better than anyone and knew he used the men's room at work every morning after his second cup of coffee. Yet her gut told her it wasn't what he claimed it to be. She wanted to scream at Phineas for doing this to her. She crawled onto the bed aware her husband was following her. When he climbed up behind her to hold her she pushed him away. "I just want to be alone." "I don't want to leave you alone. Not when you're like this. Something is wrong and you're not talking to me." "Please, Kyst. I just want to lay down and make this sick feeling go away." "I'll go put dinner away and maybe you'll want it later when you're feeling better." He kissed her cheek softly, "I love you Juni. More than anything in the world, I love you. I don't like you're this stressed out." He left the room with a worried sigh, and she closed her eyes and let the tears fall. Later when she let Adil into the apartment while Kyst put the garbage out, she looked at him, "he was with her today, wasn't he?" When Adil hesitated while positioning a camera quickly over their door in an inconspicuous place, she pushed him, "didn't he? I could smell her. He did!" 3/5 11:37 "He did. They met at the same coffee shop they always do, two blocks from his office." She watched him put the other two cameras up and then leave her apartment to disappear into the stairwell seconds before Kyst came out of the elevator. She was standing in the open door, strangely wanting to run after Adil and ask him to take her out of there. If she raced to it, she could catch up to him. Where would she go? She had nowhere to go. Her mother lived in an apartment on the grounds of the family she worked for. Her best friend was currently in Europe meeting the man she'd been dating long-distance for the first time and she'd be gone a full month or more. Kyst's footsteps made her look up warily and the urge to slam the door in his face and lock him out was overwhelming. "Hey, you're up again. What are you doing out here?" She closed her eyes and shook her head, "I thought maybe you left." Lies. Lies, lies and more lies were falling from her lips, and she'd never lied to him a single time in their entire lives. "Where would I go, sweetheart, I wouldn't bring you with? You go where I go. You're my entire world." He swung her up in his arms before she could stop him and carried her into the apartment. "You're still very pale. I don't like it. We need to make sure my beautiful wife is feeling better. I'm sorry you're feeling so crummy tonight. Come on, let's snuggle on the sofa 4/5 11:37 and watch some tv before bed." He kissed her forehead softly and gently placed her on the sofa. He grabbed a throw blanket and tucked it around her legs. He sighed staring down at her when she wouldn't meet his gaze. He squatted in front of her and tilted her chin with his hand, forcing her to meet his eyes. "Baby, I love you. You are my entire world. There is nothing I want more than for us to start our family and have a baby but, not at the risk of your health, mental, emotional, physical. If this pressure is getting too much, then we need to rethink this. I feel horrible I missed our appointment on Friday. It clearly as made you feel you I'm not as invested in this as you are and it's not the truth. I fucked up. I should've told my boss I needed to I should have prioritized you and our future, and I am sorry. It's unfair to you. I won't miss any more dates. I promise but I also mean it when I say, as much as I want this, if you're finding this too much pressure, we can stop. We were incredibly happy before the possibility of kids. I don't need anything but you in my life, Juni. A life we created is great, but I love you enough I'm good if it's just us. She stared into his eyes wondering how the hell she was supposed to reconcile this, loving sweet man with a cheater. For the rest of the night, she couldn't stop wondering how the hell it all went so wrong. Coin Package: Earn up to 1200 bonus for free. 5/5 X get it 11:37