Kimberly still stared across the room at the wall.
“I’m so sorry. Will you please say something?”
Without glancing down, Kimberly said, “You slept with her?”
“No. I didn’t sleep with her.” Alex felt relieved he could tell her that he hadn’t until Kimberly closed her eyes and grimaced in disgust as she realized what that meant. Still, Alex had to confess. “She performed for me, orally.”
Kimberly hugged her knees and shook her head. She looked like she might start to cry. The guilt of that experience that had pained him to varying degrees over the years rushed back, magnified with his mistress to witness it, and Alex felt a devastating pang of shame. “I am such an asshole.”
Kimberly finally looked back down at him. “You acted like such an asshole, but you aren’t an asshole. You could h
