Murder She Wrote

I killed her. And after I laid a black rose beside her body. The same black rose that Micheal had given me on our first date. It's been put up ever since it was  dead and dried up now it kind of reminded me of Micheal and I’s relationship. “Why a black rose?” I recalled asking him. “Because black roses are real, but rare.. Just like you, they are one of a kind. I remembered  those words like it was yesterday. I could have killed him too. I swear to God. Instead I went home, and washed the blood off before Micheal could get home.  When he came home that night I could tell that he had found out the news. His eyes were bloodshot red, the same color the palm of my hands had been hours prior, he’d been crying. I decided to antagonize him. “Whats wrong Micheal?” i asked. “Oh nothing. Long day, thats all.” “But it looks like you’ve been crying.”  “No just allergies.” he assured me. “Oh okay, Goodnight,” “Yeah, goodnight.” I walked away with my hands dripping sweat. Heart beating fast, adrenaline still pumping, mind racing. I went to the room and laid in bed. Soon as I heard the bedroom door open. I rolled over pretending to be asleep. I felt him crawl into bed, careful not to wake me and as I laid beside him I could feel his grief soaking through the bed spreading like a pool of blood. He was heartbroken and I was in great disbelief that I had killed his mistress hours prior. He had no idea that I knew about his two year relationship with Virgo. I stayed up plenty of nights crying asking myself  "why does he love her and not me?" Or the most famous questions "what does she have that I don't have?" The answer? "My husband". For two years I told myself that it was just a fling. We were going through tough times. He needed to clear his mind and never imagined that he would fall in love with another woman. We didn't talk anymore, our s*x life was non existent. He couldn't even look at me without the slightest  touch of annoyance in his eyes.    Why not just get a divorce? We couldn't have our peers gossiping about us. We were one of the most successful couples in our city. He was the most requested engineer for surrounding areas and neighboring states even starting his own engineering company. So he traveled all the time. As for me, the RN I worked at an hospital an hour away from our city. I worked in the baby unit. The irony huh? Well.. we get to that part later. My husband and I were known for throwing the most extravagant parties, having the most wonderful vacations. We lived the "Good Life" . For the life of us, we couldn't get a divorce and place that type of embarrassment upon us.