Page 107 of Oracle Returns: Time will Stop

“When did the sex happen?” she asked. “I’m not talking about in the static. When did you both break that promise to me and fuck on this plane?”

OOF.

There it was.

The words…they hung there.

This was exactly what he’d feared, and he wasn’t shocked that his wife came here to do battle. This was exactly where it happened, and now, he was about to pay.

For a crime he didn’t even recall.

It took him a few seconds to compose himself. As he stared at his wife, his heart hurt. She was gorgeous, and he knew that losing her was going to do so much damage to him.

Bishop was his salvation, his goodness, and the only reason he got up each day for the longest time.

She saved him.

And he’d hurt her.

So, in silence, Lucian sat there as he contemplated what he was going to say. Just as he was about to open his mouth, she stopped him.

“Please don’t lie. I know that you’re now actively in a relationship on this plane with him, Lucian. I can feel it in this room. It happened here. On top of that, you called him baby. Up to this point, I was your only baby.”

Jesus.

He’d never realized that he’d said that word to Ridge, but now, he understood why she was hurting.

“Bish,” he began.

Only, she stopped him.

“Tell me when. I deserve that at least. I’ve been faithful, and I’ve helped build this life. Don’t make it foul by lying to me and trying to gaslight me. WHEN?”

What choice did he have?

He could throw himself on the mercy of the court and pray that his wife let him keep their marriage. Deep down, that was his fear. He was between a rock and a very difficult place right now because both people needed him, and neither asked for this.

He’d broken the promise.

He’d put his dick in another human being.

Yes.

That was on him.

He came clean.

“The last time we went into the static. I told you that I lost the ability to flip between the two planes. That darkness came for us, and it locked us in a box. Somehow, it stripped me of my control.”

She knew when that had been.

It was earlier in the day.

“If it matters, I didn’t intend to do it. Ridge told me I didn’t, at first. He lied to protect us, and I had no clue it happened. Had I known, one hundred percent, I would have come to you, Bish. I would never intentionally break a promise to you. I would never tarnish all we’ve built and been through by cheating on my wife, intentionally. Stressing out my pregnant, armed wife, was never my intent.”

Slowly, she turned her head.

Their gaze met, and she stared into his eye.