Natalie's POV

I'd become someone I didn't recognize.

A cheating wife who lied to her husband's face while another man's cum was still inside her. A woman who faked headaches and period cramps to avoid sex with David while texting Ryan increasingly filthy fantasies about what I wanted him to do to me. A person who looked at her wedding ring and felt nothing but resentment for the vows I'd broken so completely there was no going back.

I should have felt guilty. Should have been drowning in shame every time I looked at David's trusting face across the breakfast table. Should have ended the affair and tried to salvage...