“I gotta get my wife back. When I tell Eden how things happened, she’ll understand that I never meant to hurt her. We can recover from this,” he said as he reached for the phone to plead his case.

He knew Eden didn’t have any words for him, but he had them for her. Jermaine planned to fight tooth and nail to get his marriage back to where it once was.

“I gotta show my wife that our marriage is worth saving. I’m human, I made a simple mistake. I love her too much to lose her for good.”

RING!

The sound of the ringing phone made him jump. He ran to the phone hoping it was Eden, but when he looked at the unsaved number, he knew it wasn’t his wife. The number hadn’t been a saved contact, but he had sent enough illicit text messages and photos to the number to recognize who was calling.

Jermaine sighed.

He didn’t want to speak, but he knew that if he didn’t answer she’d keep calling just to be annoying.

“What do you want?” He asked dryly.

“I miss you so much,” Envy said animatedly.

From the simple four words that fell from Jermaine’s mouth she knew he didn’t want to speak. The irritation in his voice was evident. She wanted to laugh at his lovesick ass. His misery was brightening her day.

“Envy, stop playing with me. I told you I was done with this shit. I should’ve never started dealing with you. Now because of you, my life has gone to Hell. Stop calling and texting me. You’re loose and all over the place. I don’t want you and you never wanted me,” Jermaine yelled.

He was so angry that his hands began to shake. He couldn’t say that he was mad at Envy, she was who she was. He was mad at himself for taking the bait. Envy was a mistake that spiraled out of control.

“I find it so funny how men will rearrange their entire schedule and even their life, become an entire trick, pay bills, eat ass, and the moment their ol’lady finds out about their dick slinging, the pus is now loose. You are such a clown,” Envy laughed.

Marriage, family, and loyalty were a joke to her. She knew firsthand that the people that were closest to a person were normally their betrayers. She proved that when Jermaine made excuses not to go home so he could put his penis in every hole of her body.

Her words butchered him because it was the truth. Before Eden discovered his infidelity, he had been doing a lot for Envy. It was wrong, but sadly, the thrill and good sex, kept him on the hook.