The Love That Passed

Third Person’s POV

Jared waited for the result of the investigation and it didn’t take long. He found out everything about Stacey and he was furious. “Is this the reason why mom made me marry Colleen before? Why didn’t she tell me about it?” he asked himself. He had liked Stacey and even thought about marrying her. But after finding out the truth, he felt relieved.

He closed his eyes and thought for a moment. He thought that it was really the time to have a good relationship with Colleen and decided to say sorry about everything he said about her. He went home and looked forward to talking to his wife.

After his conversation with Colleen in the dining room, he never talked to him again. Not because he didn’t want to but because he couldn’t get the chance to do so. Colleen had been staying in her room every time he was around and only got out when he was in the office.

She always helped with the household chores, not doing heavy things but only those that her body can take. “Ma’am Colleen, let me do that.” one of the maids said and she just smiled at her.

“No need to worry, I can do this. You have a lot of things to do so this is nothing.” she said, she was folding the washed clothes and sorted those that needed to be ironed.

“OK ma’am, but I will be the one who will iron and put everything in the closet.” the maid agreed and Colleen nodded at her. The maid left her in the laundry area where she decided to do it, it was near the pool and her room so she feels comfortable working there because Jared didn’t go to that part of the house.

It was three in the afternoon so the sun was not that hot plus there was a canopy that shades the area as well as the big trees. “Hello,” she answered the call from Dr. Gerard.

“How are you? You’re not overworking yourself right?” he asked and she smiled. She understands him because she told him that she was ready to have surgery if she will be given a chance.Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

“Of course, I am taking care of myself. I didn’t want your effort to go to waste this time.” she replied and put him on speaker. She was still folding some clothes so she had to put down her phone. They were talking and Colleen couldn’t help but laugh from time to time. She enjoyed talking to Dr. Gerard because he made it a point not to say anything about things that will only make me feel burdened or worried that may stress her out.

“Colleen, see you in—-” Dr. Gerard said but he didn’t finish it when Jared ended the call. Colleen looked at him and was shocked to see him there.

“You still have a plan on seeing him even after I warned you?” he asked angrily. “You look so happy just by talking to him over the phone as if he was the love of your life that you haven’t been able to talk to for a long time now,” he added.

“Why did you do that?” Colleen asked, trying to appear calm.

“Why, don’t I have the right to do that? I am your husband and yet you talked to another guy as if you were having an affair.”

“I don’t know what you are talking about. I already told you that Dr. Gerard is my friend and I will never ever stay away from him.”

“Even if I told you that?” he asked.

“Even if you told me that.” she repeated.

“I am your husband and I have every right to stop you from talking to him if I want to. Or did you forget it already?”

“I told you that you only need to wait and everything will end. Do what you want and never bother with my business. I already told you that I am not going to cheat on you.” she replied.

“I don’t care whether you cheat on me with him or not, just stop seeing that doctor. End of discussion!” he yelled.

“You never cared about me before, what happened that you suddenly acted like a jealous husband?”

“It’s because it was the first time that I saw you talking to him, if I found out earlier that you had been doing this behind my back for a long time now, I would have stopped you then already.”

“You should know that we are only married in papers, I don’t care about what you do when you’re not home and never asked you anything about your day as well. Whether you see your girlfriend or any other woman, I don’t care and it doesn’t matter to me. Isn’t it just fair that you leave me out of my own business as well?”

“Now that you say it, I have never seen Stacey or any other woman ever since we got married. So how long do you think that I had been all to myself. Don’t you have a duty to fulfill?” he asked, which made Colleen’s eyes widened. Before she could think of the words to say to him, he pulled her closer to him and kissed her.

The kiss was meant to punish her but Jared couldn’t do it. He made sure to do it gently which made Colleen close her eyes and kiss him back. Although he was surprised that Colleen responded to his kisses, he decided to ignore it and continue what he was doing.

Jared was so gentle but the kiss was very passionate and burned their bodies with desire. Jared carried Colleen and brought her to her room without breaking their kiss. His hands moved and started to feel her body only to realize that she was so thin. They stop kissing to catch their breath.

Colleen looked at him with full desire in her eyes and so did Jared. He never thought that he would be able to feel that way towards his wife, “I am not sorry for this.” he said and then kissed her again with no intention to stop until he had her.