Demand to know why

"What? Why not?" Your voices rises but you aren't quite shouting yet. "That hardly seems fair."

"Fair?" She arches an eyebrow and that subtle gesture alone terrifies you. "I thought you cancelled your date because you realized how wrong you were. Or did you actually just do it to make me cancel my date with Matt?"

Damn, she got you. You bite your lip and struggle to reply. You don't want to admit to the ulterior motive especially now that you've cleared the air. But what else can you say. Without a good excuse of your own, you try to turn it around on her.

"You didn't even want to go on this date," You point out. "So why go out with Matt now when you don't have to? It just seems like you're trying to punish me."

"I'm not punishing you, just holding you to your word," she insists with a steely stare. "This is what you wanted. For me to go on a date with your best friend and let him have my body for that one night. You cancelled your date because you realized how disrespectful that was to me, or so you say. Or are you saying that this was all just a way for you to hook up with Kali? So which is it?"

Gritting your teeth, you accept that you have no way around this. Even though you're sure that this is her way of punishing you, you can't rebuke her arguments without coming off like a huge asshole because of how you set up with sex date without her input. Any argument you make now might completely ruin your marriage, and that was never your intention.

So, with your head bowed slightly, you tell her, "No, I cancelled the date because I wanted to show you that I understand how much I hurt you."

"Good," she says as she turns and heads into the living room. "I'm glad to hear it."

As she swept away from me you notice that her being pissed off at you has given her a kind of confidence in her words and actions that she usually lacked. She saunters to the couch, her hips shaking in such a way as if to say look at what you're giving away. You would have liked to join her, but you know that she has left you behind to clean and tidy up the kitchen.

The rest of our night was uneventful, mostly because you try not to cause any more problems, but you are also deep in your thoughts, trying to think of a way to either disrupt their date or find out what they get up to. You're certain that, although it's a sex date, your wife won't actually go that far. She won't go that far to punish you...will she? You put the thought out your head and climb the stairs to bed not long after Ariana.

She stirs as you slide into bed beside her. You sense the mattress move as her body tenses when you near. Not a good sign, but you take some solace that she only keeps her back to you, she doesn't kick you out of bed. You fall into an unrestful slumber, uncertain what the next few days will bring.