A Shocking Discovery

I was a little startled to discover her secret. Everyone has secrets, I know, and everyone is entitled to them. I mean, she doesn't know everything about me. Not too many skeletons in my closet but if you slammed the door, some bones would surely rattle!

But what to do with it now that I've discovered it? Should I use it? Abuse it? Or ignore rather than explore? I mean, it's shocking but not unheard of in this modern age. I just feel, I don't know, a little weird about knowing something that has been so purposefully hidden and not mentioning it now I've discovered it. It seems a betrayal of sorts...

And yet, not.

Ha! A betrayal! What an irony! Me talking about betrayal. After all, I've been betraying her for years. I've never had a full-blown affair as such, although the chance has been there for an attractive man like myself. I suppose that sounds a little arrogant but I like to speak as I find and after multiple offers from multiple women, one has to think that one has something that they are drawn to. It's not charm - I don't have a fantastically interesting personality - people wander away from me at parties, and it's not money, unless it's by association. She has all the money after all. That's why I'm with her.

But I've not been loyal. The odd dalliance though, does no real harm.

This clandestine life though? I feel like I should tackle her but that may be just what she wants. And this is clearly not my bag.

I could be jumping to conclusions. She could be keeping it for someone. No. It's definitely hers. But why never mention it? All these years!

We all have secrets.

But it's always best to keep them hidden. Once in the shadows, they can be used for leverage by others, the dark veil of blackmail.

I mean, it'd be a shame if this ever got out. Career wrecking one might say.

"Mayor in Masochistic Mayhem" is a headline no-one wants to see. Nor to discuss at the next town council meeting.

An opportunity presents.

She'll pay, one way or the other.

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Interesting story - this was another story started and left, and then converted into a microfiction. Waste not, want not.

Not the perfect husband to contemplate blackmailing his own wife. I have a feeling that she may be more than a match for this slippery toe-rag though.

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