"REALLY Stella? You don't believe I was READING!? Reading is like the number one thing I do!"

By this point, I was growing aware that I'd jumped to an unfair assumption. I could see the hurt along with the anger on his face, "I... ummm..."

"Stella... Do you actually think that I would cheat on you?"

I felt very small when he asked me that. My answer was little more than a whisper, "No."

He held his hands open in front of him for a moment, then shook his head, "Unbelievable." He walked out and the bedroom door slammed behind him.

******

I sat on the bed for a while....