Betrayed.

I have never tried to be so quiet in my life. I have never been so unnecessarily loud in my life. Every step I take makes the floorboards creak. Shutting the door sounded like a freight train and felt like it took a hundred years.

As I quietly tiptoed through the house and up the stairs I winced at every groan and squeak made under the old wood. I feel red heat creep up my neck as I remember what I did tonight with shame.

She will never forgive me. She has every right not to. But then again, she might not even find out. All I had to do was get undressed and get in bed without her noticing. Then I could convince her I was there all night. That I wasn't out. That I wasn't betraying her trust.

As I made my way down the carpeted hallway I tried to calm my racing heart and push away thoughts of what I had done. I felt bad for doing it behind her back but honestly, I didn't regret it. I regret the consequences that are sure to come if she finds out, but not the actions themselves. There are just some things a person can't wait for. Some things a person has to grab by the horns and just go with. It had felt so right at the time. Now, sneaking back into the house they shared together, it felt so wrong.

"You're home," the icy voice of my wife greeted me as I entered the room. She flicked on the light and I was greeted with an icy cold stare of someone who knew they had been lied to. 

"I thought you had to work late?" I asked, using my questions to delay the inevitable. 

"I got off early," she replied crisply, looking down at the laptop on her lap. "I thought I would surprise you."

I gulped, realizing my mistake. She had been here. She had been here at 9 pm. Without me. I was supposed to be here. I was supposed to be waiting for her to do what we did every Sunday night together. Instead I was out being unfaithful to her and to our routine. 

I gulped, "I'm so sorry, I just, I didn't want to be spoiled....."

"I can't fucking believe you watched Game of Thrones without me. You are such an asshole!" she shouted throwing the ceramic dragon egg replica at my head. 

I had betrayed her and I had been caught.