18.

Iris moaned as she turned to her side on the bed and attempted to burrow into the warmth her husband should provide but she fell to her back on the cold side of the bed with no weight to support her. Her eyes flew open and her stomach clenched in disappointment when she saw the room was empty and Luca was nowhere in sight.

She bit her lips to fight back the tears that threatened to fall. How could she have thought that the night they spent together was enough to change the way that Luca felt about her? It had been her first time and though she never had any plans to keep it for that special someone, she never imagined that she would be left feeling unwanted after.

“You knew this would happen deep down so no need to start crying over it” She told herself but it didn’t help to stop the moisture in her eyes as she climbed down the bed and wrapped the robe on the chair around her body.

She took a quick shower and discarded the nightgown in the bin. She felt guilty since it was probably wo