Chapter 41: Crossed Lines

Infidelity.

Four years of laughter, of promises made,

A love steady, like sunlight through shade.

But care came in hands I did not expect,

A soul’s gentle presence, my heart’s secret defect.

While I wore the pants, paid the rent, held the weight,

Your absence from work shaped our fate.

A kiss in a game, a spark that betrayed,

Emotions awakened, yet trust frayed.

Not malice, not hatred, just hearts that misstepped,

Love’s fragile garden, where boundaries wept.

And now I walk forward, lessons in tow,

Of choices, of longing, of what hearts truly know—

Sometimes it’s the people you lean on, the one who shows,

That when love falters, a new path often grows.

I wanted to be honest, I wanted to be true,

But the heart has its own way of breaking through.

And in the end, the truth I can’t undo:

I broke us first. I broke you first.

Fantasies became reality.