My Husband Kissed His Girl Best Friend in Front of 200 People, So I Filed for Divorce novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: Plus One

Steph didn't answer him.

She didn't have to.

Her eyes went, all by themselves, to the far end of the bar.

Every head in the Gold Hound turned to follow them.

A man in a navy brewery polo shirt was sitting on the last stool with a half of bitter and a clipboard.

The brewery rep.

He'd come in at five to sort out the barrels that couldn't be dropped through the chained doors.

He'd been very helpful about it.

Now he was looking at his clipboard.

"Him?" Alfie said.

The rep cleared his throat.

"I think I'll settle up," he said to nobody.

"You've not paid for anything," said the barmaid. "She never charges you."

The pub made a noise I'll remember on my deathbed.

It started as a gasp and turned into a howl.

Alfie walked down the bar toward him.

The rep slid off his stool and backed toward the beer garden.

"Mate," he said, hands up. "Mate, she said you two were just friends."

That stopped Alfie dead.

Twelve years of telling me exactly that.

Just friends.

Now somebody had believed him.

"Just friends," Alfie repeated.

"She said you were like a brother."

Somebody near the fruit machine started quacking.

Then somebody else.

Within seconds half the room was doing it, soft and steady.

Alfie turned round slowly.

"Since when?" he said to Steph.

Steph lifted her chin.

"Does it matter?"

"Since when, Steph?"

"Since you started crying about your wife every night in my bed!" She flung her arm out at me. "You wanted her and me and the pub and your mum's Sunday dinners! You don't get everything, Alf!"

"You said you loved me!"

"I said a lot of things. You said you'd sort the bank."

The rep was gone. The beer garden gate banged behind him.

Alfie stood in the middle of the floor where he'd caught her two weeks ago.

Nobody was holding him up now.

Sandra took his arm.

"We're going home," she said. "Both of you. We'll talk about this in private, like a family."

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