Stolen Choices

~Kaelen~

I woke before she did, the way I always woke before she did, and lay there for a long time looking at the ceiling instead of at her.

I had fucked up yesterday.

I knew exactly what I had done and exactly why I had done it, and neither piece of that knowledge made the act itself any less wrong. She was my wife. I had known it for months, carried that knowledge through every meeting and ever