As some of you know, I'm suffering a writers block (in most of my stories), but as I already finished writing this story - as I said the chapter before -, you won't need to get worried because I won't take too long to publish new chapters.

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It already was night. It had spent hours since she had news from her husband and Maryse was feeling very worried.

She tried to call him multiple times, but never got an answer. She had even called to the hotel where he was staying, but they simply said he wasn't in the room. Not knowing another way of reaching Ted, Maryse dialed Cody's number.

- Hello - Cody answered with a sleepy voice. Maryse had just waked him up.

- Hey Cody, it's Maryse. I'm sorry for disturbing you. I was trying to contact Ted. He usually calls me back at this hour. But I can't reach him at the cell phone. I was hoping he might be with you.

Cody stood for a while in silence. He didn't know how to tell Maryse that Ted was at the hospital because a naked Kelly tried to kill herself in his bedroom.

- There was a kind of incident - Cody spoke minutes later.

- Is he alright? - Maryse asked and felt more concerned than she already was. Silence was the answer she got. - Cody, what happened? Where is Ted?

- I think he should tell you - Cody responded. He really didn't want to get in the middle of this situation.

- Cody, you are scaring me now. - Her heart was beating faster. What could have happened so bad with her husband that Cody didn't want to tell her? - What is going on?

It had been hours since he arrived to the hospital. Ted was at the reception waiting to know about Kelly's condition. He really didn't care about her health; he simply didn't want her to die.

A nurse came out from the block Kelly had been taken unconscious on the gurney.

- Is she okay? - Ted stopped the woman, who didn't get too amused with the action.

- The doctors are taking care of her now - the nurse answered and kept her path to another block.

Ted stood behind and raised the hands to his head. He had kept Kelly assault quiet since it began. But after her suicide attempt, he wouldn't be able to keep hiding it from his friends, coworkers and most important his wife, Maryse.

He didn't know how Maryse would react. He only hoped she would believe in his words. He never touched Kelly.

Reflecting in how he would tell Maryse about Kelly and the situation he had got himself into, Ted didn't see the woman he was thinking about entering in the room.

- Ted. - A feminine voice very familiar called his name. He didn't need to glance over his shoulder to know it was his wife who was running to him.

Taking a deep breath, he turned around to face his wife. He was going to have to explain the mess he was into sooner than he expected

- I was so worried. - Finally reaching her husband, Maryse wrapped her arms around his neck in a close embrace. - Are you okay?

- It's all okay. I'm fine - Ted said and broke the hug. Maryse's concern was expressed in her hazel eyes. - Where is Honey?

- The neighbor next door is watching her - Maryse answered. - What happened?

It was the moment. Ted would have to tell Maryse everything. He would have to tell her that Kelly had been harassing him and fantasized a love relationship between them. The moment Ted chose to start his explanation was interrupted by a detective.

- Mr. DiBiase? - Turning their heads around, the couple saw the woman who called Ted. - My name is Stephanie McMahon. I'm the investigator detective.

Maryse looked her husband again. Not only was she worried, but now she was confused too. What could have happened so wrong to a detective want to speak with Ted?

- This is my wife, Maryse. She just got here. - Ted gave emphasis in the last words. He hadn't gotten time to speak with the woman standing at his side.

- So, you haven't told her? - Stephanie asked very surprised. - Do you prefer to speak in private?

- Why do we need to speak in private? What's happening Ted? - Each second it spent, Maryse's worries increased.

Ted stayed in silence trying to understand what to do. He could speak with Maryse in private, but then the detective could think he had something to hide, which he didn't. The last option he had was to speak with both women at the same time and believe Maryse knew him well enough to know he would never betray her with another woman.

- It's everything okay. We can talk.

- I read the initial statement you gave the local police in the scene. I just need to clear a couple of things, okay? Let's sit. - Stephanie pointed to the chairs located in the waiting room.

The couple and detective occupied the seats not too far away. Maryse and Ted sat side-by-side while the detective sat on the opposite chair. The platinum blonde wrapped her hand around Ted's.

- Detective Reese, 3 a.m, 15th January - Stephanie spoke to a recorder before starting the small interrogatory. - This young woman, Kelly Blank, works in your office?

- Kelly, the temp? - Maryse exclaimed very surprised. Did she drive as a crazy to a hospital because some girl she didn't know? - What happened to her?

- She tried against herself- the detective told only to hear more questions flowing from Maryse.

- Why? What did she do it? And what has Ted to do with it?

- Mrs. DiBiase, I'm sorry. I need your husband to tell it by his own words.

- Apparently, so do I - Maryse whispered. The conversation was just in the beginning and she already wasn't enjoying it. She couldn't stop asking herself what Ted had to do with Kelly. She wasn't working with him anymore.

- She worked with us for two weeks - Ted finally answered.

- You only know her for two weeks? - Stephanie said very surprised and Ted nodded with his head. - Long enough for her to image that you were having an affair.

- What? - Maryse faced her husband with a deadly glance. The once comforting hand was now gone.

- Nothing happened - Ted said very quickly. His eyes were on his wife. He regretted the decision of speaking with both women at the same time. He should have spoken with Maryse in private. - She came onto to me at the Christmas party and then in the parking garage. Then she showed up at the retreat at my hotel and I rejected her

- And when you rejected her, she tried to commit suicide, naked, in your bed, in your hotel room.

- She was naked in your bed, Ted? She was naked in your hotel room? - Before Ted could explain himself, could explain Maryse it wasn't what it seemed, the detective threw more wood to the fire.

- Did you say this affair…

- There was not affair - Ted interrupted the woman before she could go further.

- Are you saying she made it up in her head and you didn't contribute?

- That's exactly what I'm saying! - It was a situation to Ted to feel desperate. He never touched Kelly, but no one would ever believe him after finding her naked inside his bedroom.

- Why do you think she picked you? - Stephanie asked suspicious. It was hard to believe Ted's statement.

- I don't know. Maybe I said something that she took the wrong way.

- What did you say she took the wrong way? - Maryse asked very aggressively. Kelly was a secretary. Her job was to answer Ted's call, not to have conversations and distort words.

Ted felt like he was in the middle of crossfire. These two women were making him questions and none of them believed his answers. He wasn't worried with Stephanie's opinion, but he was concerned with Maryse. If she didn't believe him, his married would go down the sink.

- I'll have to ask you to leave - Stephanie threatened Maryse. She had to do her job and Maryse wasn't allowing her to do it every time she interrupted.

- No, she stays. She isn't going anywhere - Ted ordered. - I didn't say anything. I didn't give her fake hopes.

- Didn't you know she would be on the hotel?

- I don't even know how she entered in my room.

Stephanie opened her notebook. - She told the hotel she was your wife and she wanted to surprise you.

Maryse felt an earthquake under her feet. The conversation was over for her. She had already heard enough. She rose off the chair and made her way to the hospital's exit.

Quickly, Ted stood up and followed his wife. He heard the detective grumbling, but ignored her.

- Maryse, stop. - In a delicate move, Ted wrapped his hands around Maryse's arms and turned her to him.

When their eyes meet, the damage he had done was seen. Just one look inside her beautiful eyes, was enough to see how much this situation was hurting her.

- Did you have sex with her? - At this point it was the only answer Maryse wanted. How could she have been so dumb? How didn't she see it?

- No, I didn't, - Ted lowered his voice to a whisper - have sex with her. Maryse, you know me. I would never do it.

- Mr. DiBiase - Stephanie called impatiently.

- Please, stay here - Ted begged his wife before going back to Stephanie's side.

Maryse crossed her arms over her chest and didn't move. Her head was telling her to go and leave Ted, but her heart was telling her to stay.

- Look, I don't care if you are doing this girl or not - Stephanie advised Ted. She really didn't care if Ted was cheating on his wife or not. An unfaithful husband was the least of her problems. - I just want to know what happened.

- I'm not doing this girl. I never had - Ted stepped back.

Before Stephanie could go further, both saw the doctor who took care of Kelly. When she heard him calling her name, Stephanie went to speak with him. Taking an opportunity, Ted returned to his wife. He was glad she hadn't gone away.

- Maryse, I swear to God it is just a misunderstanding.

- A misunderstanding? - Her voice carried a sarcastic tone. - A girl tried to kill herself because of you and it is a misunderstanding?

- Yes Maryse. It is all a misunderstanding - Ted repeated. Taking a deep breath, Ted made the question which he didn't want to hear the answer. - Do you believe me?

- No, I don't believe you. Last night, you didn't call me back to know how your daughter is - Maryse yelled. Some people who were in the same room looked askance at them. - I thought your cell phone ran out of battery, but you were just screwing another woman.

The two faced each other in silence. The last revelations had been a big low blow in their relationship. Ted didn't know which words to use to convince the woman he loved Kelly was nothing to him.

- They made her a stomach wash in time. - Stephanie told Ted and Maryse. - Maybe tomorrow they will take her from ICU to the 5th floor for a psychiatry evaluation.

- That's great. Thank you - Ted said. He linked his arm to Maryse's, so they could leave together the hospital.

- She was lucid to give a name to the doctor in case of emergency - Stephanie announced.

The detective offered the couple a look at the white paper that a member from the hospital had given her. With the paper on his hand, Ted read it over and over again.

At his side, Maryse read the number on it. She saw Ted's name and cell phone number was written on it. Wagging her head in disbelief, without hesitation, Maryse strolled out of the hospital reception without her husband.

- Are you going to stick to your story?

Not answering, Ted crashed the paper and threw it to the floor. Under Stephanie's eyes, Ted ran after Maryse.

It was a silent trip. Ted and Maryse drove home without share a word. A sepulchral silence reigned only broke by the vehicle's engine sound.

The platinum blonde kept her watery away from her husband. She didn't have the courage to face him. She didn't want to look the man she loved in the eyes and realize their marriage was a farce.

- Maryse, can we talk? - Ted asked when parked the car. Taking off the seat-belt Maryse simply ran out of the car.

The neighbor Maryse asked to take care of Honey came out of the house when saw the car's lights.

- Thank you. - Maryse said without even looking to the woman, who didn't try to say a word. It was visible Maryse was angry.

Getting out of the car, Ted went after his wife. Thanking the woman for taking care of their daughter, Ted got into the house. Following her steps, he caught her in the kitchen.

- Can we talk? - Not a word came from his wife's mouth. Maryse threw her jacket to the kitchen table and then picked up the dirty plates on top of the counter. - Maryse, all I want to do…

- What do you want? - One of the plates flew against the wall when she turned to face him. The pieces that it broke off fell to the ground. - You want to talk to me?

- You know me Maryse.

- No, I don't know you - Maryse replied fighting the tears that wanted to run from her eyes. - I know the Ted who would always talk to me. But you? I have no idea of who you are.

- Maryse, I know I did wrong. I should have told you about Kelly since it all began.

- If I hadn't gone to the hospital; if I hadn't called Cody, would you have ever told me about it?

- Of course I would have told you - Ted exclaimed. He hid the first incidents because of Maryse's sister situation.

- As you told me about the Christmas party, right? Or about the parking garage? - Maryse asked with irony in her voice. - Yes, I clearly remember when you told me about being in the parking garage with this woman. - A cynic smile was formed by her lips. - What else haven't you told me?

- Maryse, I was wrong! I should have told you the truth from the beginning. - From all discussions they had, since started a relationship, this was the worst of them all.

- You should have. Why didn't you?

- Because I didn't think it was a big deal. Then I didn't know how to tell you. How could I say it to you without sound…- Ted lost the words. How could he tell it without sound an unfaithful bastard?

- Guilty - Maryse concluded. - I'm your wife! You are supposed to trust me. How did you allow this happen?

- Do you think I encouraged it? - he asked very surprised.

- Don't play innocent with me. - Maryse pointed her finger to him. - I was your assistant. At the first day I went to work for you, you asked me out. - A tear ran through her face. - I heard the girls talking about how you played them. I was happy you never did it to me…until now. - Ted got closer of Maryse, but she gave a step back. - Why did you do it? Was it because I'm going to start working again?

- Maryse, it doesn't have anything to do with that. - He was not very happy with the idea of Maryse going to work in another place, but he would always support her decisions. - This woman is sick, okay? Nothing happened between us.

- All I ever asked to you, was to be honest with me - Ted's justifications weren't being accepted by Maryse. If he wasn't guilty, he wouldn't have hidden it behind her back.

- I told you the truth - Ted yelled.

- No, you didn't.

- I told you the truth. - Ted lowered his town voice.

- No, you didn't - Maryse said one more time. - You lied! We made a vow on our wedding day. We promised we would tell everything to each other. No matter how ugly and uncomfortable it might me. - Taking a deep breath, the platinum blonde leaned her eyes on Ted. - I specifically asked: "Did anything happen in that party?" What did you tell me? You said "no".

- I know - Ted said. He ran his hand through his short hair.

- I don't know what to believe right now. - Walking by Ted, Maryse was decided to leave the kitchen. Ted tried to stop her, but she pushed him away. - I need to be alone. - Please Maryse, stop - he begged. - I swear nothing happened.

- Get out of my house - Maryse yelled, but Ted didn't move. - Get out - Maryse yelled once again and pointed to the door - Get out of my house.

- Nothing happened with this woman. - Ted couldn't remember how many times he had always yelled it. And any of those times, Maryse believed. He didn't know what to do anymore. - Just tell me what you want me to do and that's what I'll do.

- First, I suggest that you to pack your toothbrush. Then, I want you to get your socks, your shaving kit and your underwear. You can even go get condoms, if you think you need them. After it, I want you out.

- And go to where? - Ted asked desperate. He couldn't believe he had been stupid enough to allow Kelly to destroy his marriage.

His eyes followed Maryse, who was making her way out of the kitchen. Ted had never seen her so angry.

- You can go to hell! - Maryse exclaimed without look behind. She just couldn't face Ted anymore. - But until then, I suggest the Four Seasons.

I'm sorry for the spelling and grammar mistakes. English isn't my first language.

xoxo

Ainat