“So, what do you want?”
“I want you to tell her, to walk away from her and be with me.”
“You know that’s never going to happen, Amy.”
“Of course not. You’ll just keep fucking me at home while you take her to fancy hotels and fuck her all night. Do you know what it was like watching you with her last night? I was going out of my mind. I couldn’t sleep. Every time I closed my eyes all I saw was you and her. The way you fucked her. The way your cock was inside her instead of inside me, the way she touched your face as you came inside her.”
“Did you follow us, Amy? You were watching. How?” I growl as a cold chill runs down my spine. “You’ve gone too far.” My jaw clenches and the muscles there tense.
“I love you, Annie, I love you so much,” she mimics me, panting as she does.
“Amy…”
“I need you so much, Annie.” She moans, and the anger keeps rising inside me like a wild tide.
“Shut up.”
“Fuck me, Annie.” She repeats all the words I told my wife as she rode me on that hotel bed.
“Stop!”
“Fuck me like you—”
“Enough!” I roar, grabbing her throat and pinning her to the wall. I tower over her, our faces impossibly close. She finally stops talking, but she doesn’t cower away from me. Instead, she reaches up, latching onto my shirt, grabbing it desperately like she might fall apart if she lets go.
“Do you have any fucking idea how it felt to see you withher, when you should have been with me?”
“This has gone too far, Amy. You need to stop.” With my free hand I grab her wrists and pull them off me, but she just clutches on tighter.
“It can’t stop. Iwon’tstop. I love you.”
“This needs to end, Amy.”
“No! I’ve never loved anyone like I love you.”
My mind reels at her words. She is totally unhinged. “You don’t love me.”
“I’m in love with you, Joe.”
“You’re fucking insane.” Even as I say the word I see the devotion in her eyes, her need for me, boundless desire that I can’t answer for and don’t deserve. It’s only been a few short weeks and she’s just a kid. What the fuck have I gotten myself into?
“Don’t say that. I’m in love with you and I know you love me too.”
“No, Amy. Enough of this.”
“Yes, please. I love you so fucking much.” She keeps latching onto my shirt, tearing at it, reaching for my face and trying to find my mouth with hers.
I rip her hands away and push her shoulders, taking a step back. Her body collides with the back wall and the air flies from her lungs. The bunch of balloons rips from her hands and races towards the blue skies. “Stay away from me and my family, Amy! It’s over. Do you understand me? It’s over.”
I leave her there as her body slides along the wall.
I don’t look back.