“Listen Jacob, just give me some time to process that you slept with the same bitch that’s tried to kill me, disrespected me many times, and killed her ex boyfriend,” I yelled as soon as I answered.
Henry’s eyes turned the size of quarters as he looked through the rear-view mirror after hearing the bombshells dropping.
Jacob’s unusual silence in response to such a damning statement demoralized me. “It happened, but I can’t express enough to you that it’s not what you think, Destiny. I never would knowingly betray you for her. I’m on my way back to the hotel and we can talk when I get there,” he said.
“You want to know the funny thing, Jacob? I knew in my heart she wasn’t spewing lies this time. The way she described every detail of our home, and then Montie confirming that you slept with her—”
“I thought she was you, baby.”
“The nerve of you to tell me that you don’t know her pussy from mine! Fuck you forever, Jacob. And, it’s a good thing we haven’t been married that long, because I want out.”
“You don’t mean any of what you said,” Jacob said in a deflated tone.
“Oh, but I do. I mean it, and I mean it more than I’ve ever meant anything in my life. Montie was right about you. I never should have married you.”
“That right there is our problem. Too many people have been involved in our relationship. Montie and Justine have been thorns in our side the whole time. We were never in this relationship alone. We’ve had too many influences and that’s why we haven’t been able to have an authentic relationship.”
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sp; “Montie is not involved in our relationship. He’s my children’s father who just so happened to advise me on something he saw in you when he met you, which obviously turned out to be true.”
“He did more than fucking advise you, if you need to be reminded Destiny.”
“Funny that I told you about me and Montie getting together that night, because I thought you left me, Jacob. It wasn’t because I just wanted a quick lay.”
“It still happened, and you weren’t confused about what was going on. You knew you were letting him have something that belonged to me while holding my heart in the palm of your hand,” Jacob said, his voice rapt with hurtful undertones.
“I explained my moment of weakness with Montie in as much detail as you wanted me to, and you forgave me. But you just skimmed over the detail you screwed Justine in the house you bought me as a wedding gift; the house you had to announce to the whole city through the press that you had built for our life together. What a gift?! Ha!”
“Destiny, I know how this looks, but you’re jumping to conclusions that you shouldn’t be. Since I didn’t tell you about the Justine incident upfront, like I should have, I’m going to let that part go.”
“You have no choice but to let it, and me, go.”
“Under no circumstance am I letting you go. You are my wife and I would never knowingly do anything to jeopardize that. I will spend every day of the rest of my life proving to you that I fucked up, but I’m not fucked up. I thought I was making love to my wife. I nearly choked the life out of Justine when the lights came on and I realized that she wasn’t you.”
“Well, it’s just pretty disappointing to know that you don’t know my body from the next woman. That says a lot about where we are.”
“Destiny, I’m not letting you go.”
“When I married you, I said I didn’t want to have to go through another divorce, and now that’s exactly where I’m headed. I can’t believe this shit,” I yelled.
Henry pulled into the loop of the hotel where Jacob was pacing along the path of the front door.
I glared at Henry and he hunched his shoulders. “Mr. Turner texted me and asked me to bring you here,” he said over his shoulder. He didn’t have the nerve to look at me when he made that announcement.
I huffed and stepped out of the limo. Jacob’s arms wrapped around my waist and he pulled me into his chest.
“I won’t let this break us. It can’t,” he said with his face nuzzled against my neck.
“It has. It did. We are broken forever after this,” I said, trying to pull out of his strong, unrelenting hold.
“You must not forget that our love is stronger than Justine’s tricks. She has tried her best to ruin us the entire time I have known you. This is just another one of her schemes.” A couple stopped in front of us and Jacob sidestepped so he could allow them into the building. However, he didn’t let me go. “I don’t want to talk about this out here,” he said, grabbing my hand into his before I could get an inch away from him.
“I’m done talking, Jacob.”
“Let’s go to our room.”
“Your room. And if you need to be told in your room that it’s over, fine with me.” I walked ahead of him and onto the elevator.