Chapter 12: The Truth

“If I give you this divorce,” said Patrick as he stood in Sheelagh and Des kitchen facing her. “Then you don’t get a penny.” He explained.

“That’s fine I don’t care about the money. Not any more.” She said. That wasn’t what was important. She wanted to be married to another man and have his child. That was the centre fold of her life. The money she couldn’t care less about.

“You’ll be left with nothing.”

“I don’t think so.” She said to him.

“I do. Shee, I love you. I don’t want to see you make a silly mistake and through you’re life and everything you have done in it away.”

“I am not. What I am doing is enriching my life not taking away from it. I know you hate this. I didn’t mean to make you suffer. But I am having another mans child now.”

“And this is the life you are choosing?”

“With a man I love who I can be happy with.” She said.

Her heart was sinking. He was in pain.

They had been in love. And they had been just as she and Des were then once. All her hopes for the future had been on there children.

Everything had changed.

A tear rolled on to her cheek.

”hurting you is never what I wanted,.” She said to him.

“I believe that Shee.” He said to her nodding. She had never been a good liar.

He was so angry she could still do this to him. Make him forgive her with a tear.

“Then have it. Have your bloody divorce. And never other me again.”

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When she Des the news he was understandably excited. It meant now that she was to be divorced they could be married. Maybe before the child was born. There child would be born in to a family. Their family.

She was a bit more caution. She had done it before and it had ended badly. So she found work a welcome distraction.

Reports which had taken half an hour before her life had changed now took an hour.

She was more careful even when it came to work.

That weekend she let des have his way though. They book the registry office for there wedding.

Once they had done that a huge weight seemed to lift off of her. She was going to be Mrs Taviner. And that thought made her smile. That was who she wabted to be.

She had a date, and they were going to be married. It was actually going to happen. He was serious about her.

With Patrick gone she decided she could move forward with her life.

Her and Des were going to face life together come what may. She had finally accepted the truth in her heart. The truth that he loved her. And it was because he loved her she lived.

An: I know this is a pants ending, but I lost it with this story and couldn’t remember how I was going to end it originally.. I know it is rubbish. I’m sorry .

Hope you enjoyed it anyway.