Chapter 45 Last Morning

• I wake up with Julia in my arms. I haven’t been asleep long at all. After I made love to her most of the night, I finally fell asleep with her resting her beautiful head on my chest, my arms wrapped tightly around her in a protective arch. She is still asleep, which is just as well. I don’t have to get up to get ready for work for another hour, and she doesn’t have to get up until she is ready to. I will have my driver take her home later, if that is what she wishes. As I gaze at her lovely face, I wish that I could find the words to change her mind, to convince her to stay here with me, to leave Jeff and all that she knows of her married life behind.
• She doesn’t seem to think that is an option, though, for reasons I can’t quite understand. I wish that she would explain to me what it is that is keeping her from telling Jeff off and leaving his ass behind. He doesn’t deserve her! Surely, she can see that now, can’t she?
• I don’t know what Julia thinks of herself at this point, but I hope that I have convinced her of just how amazing she is, how she deserves someone who can love and treasure her the way that I can. But… as I gaze at her peaceful, still face, I know that she is going back to him. I can only pray that his betrayal, that his signing of the contract, his cheating, his pornography addiction, will be too much for her now that she knows about it and when she sees that he has no intention to change, she will send him on his way.