Cheers Darlin'

by Ophelias dream

She stood up, glancing back, he raised his glass to her. Her eyes lingering for but a moment, she walked away and he downed his glass slumping down in his chair. Watching the door. Waiting. Waiting for redemption to come back through the door. Implied DG

1. Prologue

Authors Note: Listen to Damien Rice's Cheers Darlin' while reading, I think it just sets the mood better then words could ever do it . I disclaim again and again and once more again! I love this song.

Prologue

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They couldn't have kept it up anyways; an affair maybe, cheating he could have done for her. But marriage? He wouldn't break that bond, especially if it was her own choice. If she had once told him it was for a different cause, not even a better one, he would have done it for her. If she could have just said it was for money but she didn't lie. She was agreeing to it and he hated the man she would spend the rest of her life with, not just because everyone loved that man, not because that man always bested him in everything. He hated that man because for once he had done better than him, for once he had done the right thing; and by doing the right thing, that man got to be happy, with his girl.