Returned home early, saw my wife embracing another man - Chapter 6- Leave me alone

I was sitting before my mother’s grave.

Every time I feel helpless and can’t decide where I should go, I come here and talk to her, knowing that I won’t receive any response.

She was the best advisor and I never hid anything from her…so yes, today, I really needed her.

It’s just that I never had any friends with whom I could share my personal problems. And the only one who actually got connected to me emotionally was the reason for my concern at the moment.

Asuka.

I don’t know what went wrong. But now that I think about it, maybe it was all about time and attention after all.

My mind kept repeating the image of Asuka hugging that man and going with him in his car.

Her lies…the way she used Akari-san’s name to skip our date so she could meet that man…it stung…it stung, making me breathless.

Now that I think about it, maybe she never stopped me or quarreled with me even when I overworked because she didn’t want me to be home?

After what I have seen and heard, I have started to see everything differently…and it hurts.

I clutched my chest, my eyes turning moist.

It was then, “Yuto-kun…”

I froze.

I couldn’t be mistaken for this voice.

The same voice which always calms me down has now become a reason for my despair.

My fingers clutched my shirt as I said, “Can you leave me alone?”

I asked, calmly. Trying to sound normal. But I know my tears have influenced my voice.

Her warm hand rested on my shoulder, “Yuto-kun…I can explain-”

“No, please…” I removed her hand. It pained me to brush her away like this, but at the moment, I didn’t want to look at her. I know my gaze would hold nothing but disgust.

“I…have lied to you…and I am sorry about that,”

“Asuka…I really don’t need your sorry anymore.” I told her, my control slipping, “It takes a lot of time to gain someone’s trust but just a moment to break it.”

I turned to look over my shoulder before confessing, “And I no longer trust you.”

Her eyes were moist, and lips trembled but she didn’t back away, “I can explain why I lied to you-”

“What will you explain, tell me?” I lost my cool. Getting up I faced her, “Lying to me that you are Akari-san’s place while you were another man…hugging her and then going somewhere with him in his car.”

Her eyes widened. She didn’t know I saw her.

My voice turned sharp, “Tell me what explanation you can give to that? You were hugging a friend like that? And what friend of yours is that rich? And if you were with a friend, what caused you to lie to me?”

I asked her, my voice cracking.

Tears welled in my eyes as I said, “I know I have been working a lot these days, can’t give you enough time…but I thought you understood me, Asuka. I trusted you…but…you cheated on me.”

Tears flowed down her eyes as she shook her head, “No, Yuto-kun…that’s not…”

I took a sharp breath, “What is it then?! You aren’t telling me why you lied to me and continuing to deny that I am wrong!” My voice elevated, making her flinch.

But I couldn’t hold it. I was intensely frustrated by her denials. She still was pretending that she didn’t cheat even though all the evidence was before me.

My shoulders slumped as I said in a quieter, weak voice, “Not even once did you hesitate cheating on me, Asuka? Was our relationship that frail?”

She was breathless. Opening and closing her mouth but couldn’t utter a word.

When she is too emotional she becomes like this, I know. But right now, I wasn’t in the right mind to console her.

I took a deep breath and told her, “For now, leave me alone Asuka. I don’t know what I might say or do that might hurt you, so don’t approach me.”

Saying so, I walked past her.

Her hand held mine desperately as she begged, “P-Plea..d-don..go…”

Her trembling hands, her choked voice, her tears…everything ushered me to just hold her close and comfort the woman I have loved more than anyone.

However, “Just leave me alone,” I pulled my hand away and started to walk.

I couldn’t take this anymore.

I thought I could make things better, and I might have led this talk in a more calm way if only she hadn’t denied everything I said.

She was still thinking that despite my awareness of everything, she could convince me that she didn’t cheat.

I couldn’t help but scoff. Did I always look like an idiot in her eyes that she thought she could fool with her tears?

Maybe I was foolish since, more than hatred; I was feeling concerned for her as I made my way to my house.

It’s over between us.

I tried to save this marriage, but since it seemed Asuka was not ready to part ways with that man, the only thing I could do was to set her free.

‘Who would have thought that our marriage wouldn’t last until even the second anniversary?’

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