Love, Jerk, and Affair

"Who do you mean?" asked Mark, frowning. It seemed that he was pretending not to know.

"Maura," replied Adriana. "Yesterday she takes you home when you were drunk. What did you do with her before?" She continued with a sharp glance.

Mark didn't answer right away. he didn't flinch to swallow his saliva rass confused at being caught.

Seeing her husband did not answer her question, Adriana immediately walked out of the room, then headed into her private room which was not far from Evan's room.

"We accidentally met, and I had no appointments at all," said Mark as he walked following Adriana.

"Then why you drunk? Unusual, right? ... you left me when I was sleeping, then came back among the other girls. Don't you think about my feelings?" Adriana began to spit out what's on her mind since this morning.

"Sorry ... I'm just having a headache thinking about work, that's why I went to have a drink. You know it's been my habit since a long time ago, so don't worry about it." Mark again argued as if Adriana was a stupid woman to who he could easily lie.

"The problem is ... you are with Maura! Do you not care about my feelings? I was patient enough to endure the insults from my mother and Byanca. Now you are even starting to be dishonest to me," Adriana felt annoyed, then on the edge of the bed. Slowly, her tears just dripped off.

"Honey ... She is just my ex. Now between us just a friendship, please don't think negatively!" Mark approached Adriana and sat down too, trying to seduce his wife who was crying.

Adriana looked down and was still sobbing. "I do not believe."

"We're married. Then what else do I need? I'm satisfied with having you. You have to believe that there is no special relationship between us." Mark wiped Adriana's tears with his thumb.

"I don't know ... it's hard to believe you." Adriana brushed Mark's hand. She immediately got out of bed, then removed her make-up, changed clothes into her pajamas, then lay back on the bed, not caring about her scarf anymore.

Mark let out a rough breath, then followed Adriana to the bed. he put his hand around his wife's stomach but was immediately brushed away, even the wife turned her back on him and gave him a distance. Now, they both sleep far from each other.

"Adriana," called Mark.

"Shut up, I don't want to hear your nonsense explanation!" exclaimed Adriana without changing positions.

"Please don't be angry, I can at least keep you quiet like this." Mark tried to touch Adriana's arm, but his wife immediately brushed it off, then sat up and glared at him.

"What do you want if I'm not angry? touch me, make love with me, then leave when I'm asleep? I'm fed up with all that!"Adriana irritably then got out of bed.

Mark looked at Adriana who was angry and it was impossible to be persuaded. "I just want to keep you calm, Adriana. Since everything you think about me and Maura is not true, I don't want you to get into a misunderstanding," he said full of pleas.

Gosh, Adriana was even sick of seeing Mark's caring face.

"I don't need comfort. I will rest easy if we move out of this house and we live with our small family, away from mother or Maura!" Adriana ventured to discuss the problem of wanting to move house because she also couldn't stand the stinging mouth of her in-laws which always made her earshot, hurt her heart, and even wanted to run away.

Mark got out of bed and then pulled Adriana to sit back beside him. "Honey, I am the first child, my father is dead, I have two younger siblings, I have to stay here as the lead of the family. We will not move and this house is completely mine, yours too," he explained softly.

"Mother never liked me, I was always insulted, even Byanca didn't want me to be here." Again, Adriana's tears just dripped until Mark embraced her from the side.

"They just haven't accepted you, I'm sure they'll be nice to you one day. Please don't cry, I can at least see my wife sad like this." Mark tried to calm down.

Adriana let go of Mark's embrace then, rubbing her tears roughly. she glanced at her husband who acted as if he was full of attention, but the image of Maura accompanying her husband seemed to continue wandering in her mind, the woman immediately got out of bed.

"I'll just sleep with Evan," she said.

"I'll come, we sleep three of us," said Mark.

Adriana rolled her eyes then glanced at Mark full of hatred. "You sleep with Evan and I'll sleep here alone," she said and then pulled Mark out of bed.

"Adriana ...."

"It's been a few days you haven't accompanied your son to sleep. So, now you have to accompany him until morning," said Adriana, remembering that Mark rarely had time for Evan. And actually, she also didn't feel like sleeping with her husband because she was still disappointed.

Mark let out a rough breath then said, "I thought we were going to sleep three of us because I can't sleep without you."

Adriana smiled sarcastically, glanced at Mark, who was acting spoiled and pretentious. oh my god, she wanted to throw sandals in the face of the husband who never realized and admitted his mistake.

"Don't protest much, better get out now or I'll go out to sleep with Evan," Adriana exclaimed firmly.

Mark was silent for a moment then returned to sit on the edge of the bed. "You sleep with Evan. I'm tired and want to sleep well," he said then lay down and covered his face with a pillow.

Adriana shook her head in surprise and hatred, she didn't know what to do, her husband even preferred to sleep alone instead of having to sleep with his son.

Seeing that Mark had covered his face with a pillow, it was a sign that he didn't want to continue the conversation with her. Adriana walked out of the room feeling annoyed and as if she wanted to run away. She walked out of the room to Evan's room.

"Adriana."

Adriana turned around when she heard her name being called.

"Dave," she said to his brother-in-law who looked like he was going to sleep because he was already wearing navy blue pajamas without a motive.

"Are you going to sleep with Evan?" asked Dave.

"Yes, I want to sleep with him tonight," Adriana whispered then opened the door to Evan's room

"Adriana," Dave called again.

"Why Dave?" asked Adriana.

Dave looked at Adriana's flushed face with puffy eyes, it was clear he thought that his sister-in-law had been crying.

"What made you cry? Did Mark hurt you?" asked Dave with a look of pity.

"No," Adriana briefly then returned to say, "I'm sleepy. You'd better get to sleep as well, it's late at night."

Adriana immediately went into Evan's room. She was reluctant to accept questions from Dave which would only make her saddened by pity. That woman couldn't deny that her brother-in-law cared about her, but she didn't want her problem to become a burden for her brother-in-law.