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Chapter 28: Forgiveness

Charlie P.O.V

I stumbled back at her words; my heart began to beat faster and faster.

"What did you say?" I stammered. I knew what she said; I just needed to hear it again, just in case I missed something.

"I, am, Brax's, wife." She said, empathising every word making sure that she left time so each and every word snuck into my brain.

"That can't be possible." I managed to say back.

"Ah no, it's very possible. Till death do us part."

Brax P.O.V

I arrived home to an empty, cold house, I climbed the stairs and walked into our bedroom, flicking on the light to see clothes scattered all over the ground, mainly Charlie's but a few of mine as well. I was starting to get worried.

"Charlie! Babe where are you?" I yelled. I stopped breathing, and listened for her voice, nothing but silence prevailed.

I ran back down stairs and began flicking on all the lights down stairs, every room was empty of her and eventually I walked back to the kitchen where I left my phone I picked it up and dialled her number, I knew it off my heart.

The dial tone rang.

"Come on Charlie, pick up, pick up!" I groaned, starting to get really worried.

Hey you have reached Charlie Buckton's phone, please leave your name and number and I'll get back to you. Okay thanks, bye!

I slammed my phone down on the table and suddenly a gust of wind blew through the door and sent a piece of paper floating through the kitchen and to the tiled floor. I walked over and picked it up, turning to over to read Charlie's hand writing scrawled on the paper.

Brax, I'm sorry but I can't deal with this, I can't deal with another one of your lies, I'm sick and tired of it. Tired of being there next to you and you telling me that there were no more secrets between us, when there clearly is... I'm sorry I can't give you a full explanation or a chance for you to explain but at the moment I know that if I face you, things will be said that aren't true. Things that will be unforgivable and unforgettable, something that will defiantly split us apart. Just remember that I will always love you and care for you.

Sort your priorities out, it either me or your wife, Teisha...

Love you always, Charlie.

The paper had dried tears on it; I could see the black liquid stains from her eye liner splattered on the paper. I walked over to the table it flew from to see Charlie's engagement ring placed on the hard wood of the table. I picked the ring up, and looked at it and tear escaping down my cheek, how could this have happened...

I grabbed my keys and ran to my Ute, I knew where she would be, she would be at Bianca's.

Teisha was my wife, sure it was true and I understand what Charlie must be thinking but she has it all wrong. I married Teisha fresh out of high school, one drunken night and a cheap ring later we were both standing in a cheap church with the boys cheering us on, we slurred the vowels and kissed. Then we woke up the next day, on the beach to find that she had a wedding ring on and we were now married. Safe to say I shit myself, 18 and married... Without thinking I ran, I took off to a different town, the River Boys following me and when I realised that it would possibly be very important to get divorced and no longer remain married I went back to the town where I left my 'wife' to find out she had also done a runner and no one knew where she went to.

So without her there was no divorce, law states that both participants must be there during the legal work. When I was finally involved with Charlie, so we were no longer just on and offs but living together I hired a very expensive lawyer to in fact find my missing wife and demand a divorce. But unfortunately, he has been unsuccessful trying to find her, but now like I always worried, she found me first.

Bianca P.O.V

1 hour ago, I opened the door to a very distraught Charliewith make-up running down her face guided by many tears, I automatically pulled her into my arms because I had seen her this way many times before, and I knew it was because of Brax. Without her even explaining herself I brought her inside and into the spare room where she put her bag and began to explain to me.

After a long cry and a warm shower I let her borrow some of my clothes, because she was in such a hurry that she forgot to pack her pyjamas. My clothes were bagging on her very tall, thin, slender frame and we were now seated at the dining room table sipping on our freshly made cups of coffee.

"Are you sure? Are you entirely sure that this women is who she says she is?" I questioned, still finding it hard to believe. Brax was a man of many different up bringing but never in my life would I have thought that he was married and unfaithful.

"I don't know... She had a ring on her finger..." Charlie stammered out. Wiping tears from her eyes.

"Charlie, this girl could have just been messing with you... Why didn't you talk to Brax?" I said, putting my hand over hers.

"I don't no... I panicked and took off. If you were told that your fiancé was married to another women you'd run first think last, trust me" She said quietly before taking a sip of her coffee.

Then our heads snapped up at the sound of tyre's screeching around the corner and into my driveway, we both knew who it was. Charlie jumped to her feet, fresh tears spilling from her eyes.

"I can't talk to him, not now..." She cried.

"What do I tell him then?" I questioned, looking out the kitchen window to see Brax's ute.

"Tell him I'm not here and you haven't heard from me." She whispered, so Brax wouldn't hear her voice.

"Charlie your car is out front!" I snickered back, see really wasn't thinking straight.

"Make something up!" She screeched as I heard heavy footsteps running up the path, Charlie ducked down behind the kitchen counter so she couldn't be seen.

A heard a knock on the door and went and opened it to find a very wide eyed worried stricken Brax.

"Where is she Bianca! I need to talk to her." He yelled trying to push past me, I held my ground.

"Brax, calm down. This mighten be the best time to try and sort things out, you are clearly not thinking straight." I said sternly, trying to talk sense into him.

"Bianca, I need to talk to her now." He said back, starting to intimidate me.

"No, Brax you can't." I almost yelled back, I gathered my composure before beginning to speak again. "Just sleep on it, talk to her when you've both had time to cool down."

"Charlie, I know you are behind that counter and I'm telling you that this is a misunderstanding, she means nothing to me, she never has and never will. I love you and you only! Please don't do this to me." He begged. Charlie remained silent behind the counter, not ready to face her fiancé.

"Brax, trust me... Sleep on it." I said, his face dropped when he realised Charlie wasn't coming back. I shut the door in his face gently, and just stood there until I heard his ute start and slowly back out of the driveway and cruise off towards his empty house.

-Next morning 7am-

I was dressed and ready for work; Charlie had the day off so I was fairly certain she'd spend the day moping around. I opened her bed room door to find her still fast asleep and cuddled up to a pillow, obviously wishing it was Brax. I smiled at her, knowing that she was so deeply in love with him that by the time I get home this afternoon they would have worked it out and be back together as if nothing ever happened, or at least I hoped, I really did hope.

Brax P.O.V

I opened the restaurant late... I guess I had slept in; I went to bed in the early hours of the morning because I couldn't stop thinking about her. I slept in the spare bed room, it didn't feel right sleeping in our bed when she wasn't there, although there would have been many reminders, for one her smell, she had this divine smell about her and it was burned into my brain so I thought it would be best to sleep in the spare bedroom where there was less reminders.

I had already had 3 cups of coffee and it was only 9am, it was the only way to keep me awake and barely functioning I slowly made my way around the restaurant, placing out all new clean cutleries and placing out Monday's menu. I heard footsteps coming up the stair case, and I tried to put on a happy, welcoming face for my first costumer of the day, not sure how long it was to last... Only to have a real smile spread across my face when I saw who it was. She walked through the door in a short, casual dress she looked up at me and smiled weakly.

"Babe..." I began to speak but she cut me off.

"Are you married Brax." She said simply, looking at me with nothing but seriousness.

I sighed. "Yes, I am." She looked at the ground and shook her head. "But I swear you've got this all wrong please just hear me out." I begged, she looked up at me. I walked over to one of the booths, she followed and sat away from me, just in case she needed to make a runner.

"What you must understand Charlie is that I haven't seen or heard from Teisha in over 10 years, she basically disappeared of the face of the earth. I've been looking for her for over 8 months now." I said, she just looked at me so I continued.

"I was fresh out of high school and just turned 18, us boys got kicked out of the formal so we decided to have our own party down on the beach, where of course our older mates had grog. Teisha never had many friends so once we got kicked out she followed like a lost dog. Once we were drunk, apparently things between me and her heated up and things escalated. I don't remember any of this but I was told this story by the more sober boys. They thought it would be a fun practical joke to get us married, so I went and bought this cheap ring and we all headed to the closet church we could find. We slurred our vowels exchanged a ring and the next thing I knew I was waking up on the beach with a wife."

"Why didn't you divorce her then?" She said quietly, looking up at me, her eyes red and tired.

"Babe I tried! I took off the same day I realised I was married. I didn't come back for a couple weeks and when I did she was gone. I didn't think much of it at the time; I didn't think I'd ever find a girl and settle down. But then I met you Charlie, and everything I stood for flew out the window, I found myself changing so you would be happy to be in a relationship with me and soon enough I fell for you and I wanted to settle down and I have now. I've got a house with you, we thought we were pregnant and now we are engaged and I want to marry you. When we started getting serious and when I knew I loved you, I hired a lawyer and got him looking for Teisha in order of a divorce and he couldn't find her. I haven't even seen her yet, I just figured she'd find me soon enough." I answered, and moved closer to her, she didn't move away instead she moved closer and I put my arm around her neck. She leant her head on my shoulder and grabbed my hand.

"Have you fathered any of her kids?" she questioned, I sucked in a breath.

"No." answered.

Charlie P.O.V

I was sitting there, looking at him; he smiled and squeezed my hand slightly before he leant into kiss me.

"That's not entirely true." I heard a female voice say, I broke the kiss and looked over to the door, to see Teisha walking through. I sighed.

"Here we go again." I said quietly, Brax squeezed my hand again, not looking at Teisha he grabbed the ring out of his pocket and held it out in his hand. I smiled and held out my finger for him to slide it on. Once he did that I fiddled with it, to make it comfortable and then he leant over and kissed me. I didn't kiss him back; I felt it was awkward with his wife watching.

"And what do you mean by that?" Brax asked, I could hear the nervousness in his voice.

"I was pregnant with your child, but I miscarriaged." She answered, hurt in her voice.

"What are you doing here?" Brax asked.

"Oh so no, hi honey how have you been, oh and where did you run away to for 10 years?" She asked sarcastically. She walked up to Brax and went to hug him, he stepped back.

"Not even a hug for your wife?" She questioned, I shifted in my seat and Brax looked over I shrugged. He hugged her awkwardly for about 2 seconds then broke away and walked over to me, grabbing my hand and pulling me towards him. I was standing next to him and looking towards her, his arm snaked around my waist and she looked at us awkwardly.

"Okay, okay I get it. You are happily engaged I get it, I just want to know where we stand." She asked.

"What do you mean where we stand? Teisha, we were 18 and fresh out of school, both drunk and fell into a marriage without even knowing. We stand nowhere, we are nothing. I just beg of you to get a divorce with me, without any complications..." He said, kind of harshly, she stepped back as if he had shot her in the chest, pain ridded her eyes. I couldn't watch this, it was none of my business.

"Babe, I'm going to go to Bianca's and get my stuff. Let you sort your stuff out." I said, he looked down at me with worried eyes.

"Are you coming home tonight?" He questioned, hope in his voice.

"Yeah, I'll be there. I'll see you soon." I said, leaning up and kissing him.

"Nice to meet you Teisha." I smiled and walked out the door and towards my car.

Brax P.O.V

I parked the Ute in the garage before getting out, locking it and rolling down the roller doors. Teisha said as soon as I got the paperwork she'd sign them and leave. She came looking for me to see if I would be interested in having another go at our relationship, I kindly declined and told her I was happy with Charlie and I'm not looking for anyone else, but Charlie.

I walked along the path out the front of the house and grabbed the key from where I hid it this morning before opening the door, closing it behind me and throwing my car keys, house keys, and business keys on the table, and walked to the fridge, opening it up and grabbing a beer cracking it open, taking a swig and walking around the corner and into the living room. I spat the beer everywhere in surprise when I saw her.

There was Charlie, standing there looking at me, smiling seductively and trying not to giggle at what I just did. She was wearing a tiny pair of red lacy underwear and a matching bra, which was way too small for her breasts, leaving most of them exposed. As I trailed my eyes up her toned, tanned, sexy body I felt myself grow hard, and I shifted trying to hide my sudden erection. She giggled at me, when I started pulling at my shorts; they were very tight and restricting. She walked over to me, and grabbed the front of my jeans waist band with her small fingers, looking down at the bludge in my pants.

"Wow." Was all I could say, looking down at her. "What's this for?" I questioned, not caring about the reason, I just wanted to know.

"For taking of and not letting you explain... I'm sorry; it's just when I heard you had a wife I freaked." She said, with a serious voice this time, looking up at me. I grabbed her face in my hands gently.

"It's alright, and you are already forgiven." I said looking down at what she was wearing, hoping she'd get what I was talking about. She laughed, looking down and blushing. "And I don't blame you... I should have told you about her, I just didn't want to cause you any unnecessary worries. But in less than a week, I'll be a single man again, for about 5 minutes and then I'll be officially engaged to you, again." I said, pulling her lips to mine and moving one hand down her back to her hip.

Soon enough things had escalated, and I was standing in the living room with my half naked girlfriend in only my boxers, where everyone could see us. And I wasn't too fond of letting other males see her likes this, especially when I do what we were about to get up to.

"Bedroom...?" I mumbled between kisses. She just nodded.

"Ah huh." She said, moving her lips to my neck and began to kiss and bite at the skin. I moved both of my hands to her small arse, cupping her cheeks and lifting her up my body, she wrapped her legs around my body and I began walking towards our bedroom.

"Hurry Brax or I might just make you have sex on the stair case." She said cheekily. That was all the encouragement I needed, I picked up the past and ran up the stairs with her giggling in my arms.

Chapter 29 Spoilers:

Wedding date is approaching.