” Matthias stuttered, as his mind churned with how this could be real!“That is a question that I have asked the good man myself! He did promise wo...ds with me before he and his crew would leave Prodosia!” Dagan chimed in, catching Matthias’ attention.“You know, I wouldn’t mind knowing how he does that either!” Matthias admitted.“Can we focus on the how the Confeds got here and infiltrated this man’s group?” Natalya wondered, steering the conversation back to more important things.“Yeah! I’d like. I'd taken the afternoon off and decided to just let the assistant manager handle things at the market. It was good training for him and he could reach me on my cell if needed. Stopping at a park near our home I mulled over in my mind the events that had led me to discovering my soon- to-be ex wife's adultery. I didn't want to go the house we called home because I could no longer think of it as a home; just a house where we ate and slept. I decided I would have to try to hold the family together. I resolved to try.But then, when it came to it, at the end of the fabulous afternoon of learning to ski round poles, with Chloé, I didn’t have the control I thought I was going to have. We arrived back in the resort all together and Chloé manoeuvred me slightly away from the others:“What are you doing now?” she asked, “after your shower or this evening?”It was intimate. Heading for more intimacy. Her face was close to mine. She was magnetic, gorgeous, charismatic, fun ... Christ. If we weren’t. I could somehow sense the air of disapproval as the taxi driver appeared to steal glances at me continually in his rear-view mirror. I tried to read his mind as his eyes examined me, his scrutinising gaze working their way up my stocking-clad legs, judging me. The middle-aged woman travelling alone to a hotel sealing his impression of me as the very image of a cheating housewife.Karen had made me promise to text her as soon as I arrived at the hotel and at regular intervals during the.