Chapter Two
"Well, come on then. Explain" Jake shouted, his eyes firmly fixed on the wall behind where his wife was standing. As much as he wanted to, he couldn't look at her face. He couldn't look at her full stop. Her hair was unkempt, scruffy, and her lipstick was slightly smudged. Reminders of the betrayal and deception that he had just witnessed.
"How long has it been going on?" Silence. "Becca, tell me. How long has it been going?" Silence. "Weeks? Months?" Still more silence. Frustrated, and with the anger burning through his body like red hot lava, Jake turned and began to stride towards the door, to the outside, to the place where he had been before his world had been torn apart.
"Since Christmas" a voice said, breaking the silence. "It started at Christmas" There was no turning back now.
"That was six months ago, Becca" Jake said, hardly believing what she was saying. She had been betraying him for six months, lying to him for six months, sleeping with someone else for six months. He could feel himself reaching boiling point as these thoughts whizzed through his mind.
"Yes I know. But it's not what you think, Jake. I tried to fight it, I really did, and nothing happened after we slept together at Christmas, I swear, not till….." she stopped in mid sentence, catching herself just in time. This was hard enough as it is, he didn't need to know, he didn't need to know that they got together on that day, on Valentines Day.
"Not till when, Becca?"
"Till the first week of March", Becca said quietly, "It just happened, Jake. I never planned it"
"Well, I bet he did" Jake retorted, raising his voice as he said it, suddenly remembering there was another person in the flat. A person who he had begun to get on with, a person who he had given advice to when his family was having money worries. The anger was building.
"He's not like that" Becca said, her voice shaking slightly. She wanted to keep talk of Justin to a minimum with Jake right now. She wanted to defend him, of course she did, but she didn't want any violence.
"Well you would know all about that, wouldn't you, Becca? You probably know him better than his own mother" Jake remarked, suddenly realising how close her and Justin must have gotten over the last year. His mind cast back to the time he accused Becca of having an affair with Justin. Craig talked him out of it, of course. Like anybody would, his brother had quickly dismissed the idea of Becca having an affair. Especially with someone like Justin and especially after what happened with Lisa Hunter.
Lisa. That name drew thoughts that hit him like lighting bolts. Was this her idea of revenge? Did she do this to get back at him, make him feel all the feelings that he had made her feel? Anger, betrayal, jealousy. Was this her plan all along? To pretend to forgive him, to marry him and then to take her revenge? No, that wasn't Becca, his Becca. This was Justin's doing, he was sure of it.