ALAN
I nodded, my face pale. "Yes, I would," I admitted. "But I didn't mean to hurt you, my love. I was just afraid."
Ariel cut me off, her anger boiling over. "Afraid of what? Afraid of losing me? Afraid of being honest with your own wife?" She scoffed. "You should have thought of that before you lied to me, Alan. You should have thought of how I would feel."
She turned away from me, tears piling up in her eyes. “Do I even know who you really are anymore” she said, her voice so little barely above her whisper. 'I thought I knew you, but I guess I was wrong.
All alone, she just stood cheek in the banisters on the landing of the stairs, trying to feel what emotions were transpiring in her, and only the depths of drowning sadness surged up. She was hurt, betrayed, confused. She couldn't
