Just to let you all know this will be finishing up in the next few chapters.

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The laughter could be heard through out the house, it was coming through the walls to the apartment on the other side. Daryl put a pillow over his head to block the noise out. All the women were there having a girls night. Tara, Carol and now Maggie had joined them with baby Phoebe. It was supposed to be date night but they had got into a slight argument about something silly and he had canceled it. He told her he wasn't going out with her now because he was annoyed about how slow they were taking things, but that wasn't the real reason, they both knew the real reason.

Carol had said fine! Which Daryl knew he was well and truly in the dog box with her as he left and went to sulk in his own side. He was frustrated, upset and now alone. It had been his fault and he picked the fight almost to bring on the argument. Carol wanted to quit the counselling because she felt they had come full circle. Daryl did too but he wanted to move back in and he wanted Tara gone. The argument had been about Tara... again, it was all they seemed to be arguing about. Daryl couldn't cope with it, Tara being so close to his family and being so supportive of Carol. It made him wild and jealous, also he kept wondering if there was something more in the relationship between them. The small smiles, the inside jokes and the way Ollie listened to everything she said.

It started off pretty much the morning after Tara arrived, Daryl become jealous of their relationship. Carol assured him that it was just friendship, he was also jealous about her relationship with Ollie, he couldn't help but feel resentful; and now he could hear Carol giggling with the other women when they should be out on a date or at home in bed together. He was a idiot, he knew there was nothing going on between Tara and Carol. Carol had told him, shown him but he couldn't help it, he was as jealous as fuck.

It been two weeks since they moved into the house. Two weeks that he had had underlying simmering of jealousy and tonight he had blown his top when Tara come bouncing down the stairs without wearing a bra under her shirt giving Carol a hug telling her that she'd loved how they snuggled up last night to watch DVD's. Daryl couldn't take it he really thought there was something going on between them. Tara had jokenly slapped Carol's butt as she walked though the kitchen to go upstairs to use the new bathroom they had installed. Then he asked - again.

He never thought he would be jealous of his wife and another women but here he was simmering under the surface worried that Carol might have an affair.

Tomorrow was the anniversary of their baby's death. Carol was giggling, he was fuming, he had a day planned for them tomorrow to take them where he went. Carol had asked him to settle down that nothing was going on they were just really good friends, she was not interested in Tara because she loved him. She had asked him to take her on a date still or through to his apartment but he couldn't do it because he was trying to control his feelings which were all over the place. Carol had said 'Fine!' and that was the end of the argument as she went upstairs to check on Ollie who was asleep. He didn't know if that would happen now. He put the pillow over his head and tried to go to sleep, to block out the women talking and watching a movie.

A few hours later he felt his bed shift and a cold body slide in next to him. He must have dozed off at some stage, he rolled towards her looking at the time it was now 11pm and he'd been asleep for a few hours.

'Are you still mad?' she whispered to him.

He shook his head and wrapped his arms around her, 'I'm jealous of her,' he finally admitted. 'She's close to you guys and it makes me realize how much I missed,'

'I can see that, would it help if I asked her to move out?' Carol asked.

'No that's not fair she's got no where to go,'

'Well she has, she can move in here and you can move in with me and Ollie?' Carol offered.

'You serious? The counselor said...'

'I don't care, I'm ready... I am, I need you in my bed, my life, Ollie's life,' Carol kissed him finding her mark in the dark of his soft lips. She wriggled really really close to him stroking down the side of his face, 'I'm ready to forgive and forget, move on together, but if you ever start drinking like that again we are gone,'

'I'm not going to drink like that again,' his hand glossed over her body, her tummy stroking her slight bump. 'I'm gona try not be jealous of Tara,'

'That's good because I don't think Tara's interested in me anyway she seems to have her eye on Merle and Maggie's nanny Rosita,'

'Really?'

'She's into girl's Daryl,'

'I know I just thought she was into my girl,'

'We never went there, I'm not into girls, I mean I can appreciate a beautiful women but I don't want to sleep with one,' She climbed onto him straddling his lap, lying down on top of him to kiss him again, 'You don't need to be jealous,'

'We still going tomorrow?'

'We are still going,' Carol whispered to him, then she took the lead kissing him, making love to him in the dark.