I stood in the kitchen long after Daniel left, unable to move.
His threat kept playing in my head. He would tell Ethan everything in the morning, and there was nothing I could do to stop him unless I agreed to his demands.
I pressed both hands against my face.
How has my life become this complicated?
If I had controlled myself from the beginning, none of this would have happened. If I had been patient with Ethan and found a way to manage the problems in our marriage, I wouldn’t have ended up sleeping with another man, let alone his father and younger brother.
I had made one bad decision after another, and now I was paying for all of them.
The worst part was that I couldn’t even blame anyone else.
Ethan had his faults, but he had never forced me to betray him. He had known about my p
