The Home-wrecker

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I've been faithful long enough.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I never claimed to be a good man but I've always done what was expected of me. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Find a nice girl. Get married. Have children. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That was my duty as a good Christian man. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And everything was going as planned when I met Briar. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Beautiful. Charismatic. Sexy.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But marriage is hard and after seven years I feel like I'm failing.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then a figure from my past enters the picture. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dean Sheridan is cocky and charming. When this twenty-six-year-old needs a place to stay I should turn him away-especially after I notice the spark between him and my wife.  But I don't.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When I pressure him about his relationship with Briar he does the last thing I expect.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He dares me. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He thinks he can take what's mine.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And if it's a challenge he wants it's a challenge he'll get.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What started as a game becomes so much more. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Between them. Between us.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This isn't how normal couples behave. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The games we're playing are dangerous. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And the roles we're playing are far more. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But God help me I can't seem to stop.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What we're doing is wrong but it feels so right and before long I don't recognize the good husband I used to be.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>