Faith stood and wiped off her hands with a towel. “Why do you want to know?”
His mouth almost dropped open. “Because she’s my wife.”
They looked at each other again.
“Tell me what the hell is going on?” he yelled.
“She’s gone.”
“Gone? Where? When will she be back?” Duncan asked.
“She’ll never be back, and she said to tell you that you should expect divorce papers in the mail soon.”
He almost thought he was having a heart attack because his chest felt tight. His breath stalled in his throat long enough for black dots to appear in his vision. Jesus, was another woman going to tear him apart? He couldn’t take it again. No, Angelica wasn’t like that. He would have never thought his Angel would ever deceive him.
What the fuck were they talking about? Where had all this come from? There was never a day that went by that he didn’t thank God for her, and she didn’t want him anymore. God, just thinking that made him crazy.
He cleared his throat. “What was her reason?” he asked.
Hope lifted her chin, and she looked so much like his angel that it made him want to howl.
“She thinks you don’t want her, so why stay?”
“Not want her? Jesus, I’m obsessed with her,” he yelled.
“You have a funny way of showing it,” Faith said.
“What does that mean?”
“You haven’t given her any attention for days, and you wouldn’t even talk to her when she tried. But the worst is the fact you think it’s okay to have a mistress right under her nose and in the same house,” Faith said.
“Mistress? What the fuck?” He looked at Beth, who had stood a few feet away, looking down at her feet. “Beth, you know me. What do you think?”
He hated to see the bleakness in her eyes when she lifted her head.
“I know that men have needs, and sometimes they don’tcare where the sex comes from, and it doesn’t have to mean anything to them. Not like it does women.”
“You think this way about every man, even your own?” Duncan asked.
Beth nodded. “Yes. I will stay with Alastair for as long as he’ll have me or until I know he’s taken another mistress, and then I’ll be gone.”
What the fuck did she mean by another mistress? Fuck, he felt like the whole world was going crazy.
“Beth.”
They all turned to see Alastair standing there staring at Beth. Hell, by the look in his brother’s eyes, he knew Beth would be busy the rest of the day.
“Did I just hear you, right? If I take a mistress, you will leave me?”
Beth shrugged. “Of course. A man doesn’t need two, do they?”
“You think of yourself as a mistress?” he asked her. The dark low tone of his voice told Duncan his brother was pissed.
Beth exhaled. “I think of myself as Alastair’s woman until he’s done with me.”
“Jesus, woman. Why haven’t we talked about this?”
“There’s nothing to talk about. I’m happy with the way things are, and I don’t want them to change. That’s all you need to know. My inner thoughts and insecurities are my own.”