Choices

C alixte took his wife out the next evening, starting with dinner in a Michelin-starred restaurant and a surprise afterward with VIP box tickets to a much-raved-about musical.

It was another night of many firsts for Eden, and she was unable to contain her excitement and delight when he took her backstage and introduced her to his cousin, Jacques, and his young wife Riri, who also happened to be the lead star.

"Thank you," Eden said shyly when it was just the two of them again, and they were on their way home. "Everything about this night is unforgettable."

"How unforgettable?" Calixte drawled.

"Um..."

"Would you think it's as unforgettable as the day I made you an omelet for breakfast?"

A sheepish smile touched his wife's lips. "I can't say it is---" Her voice broke off, and her eyes widened. "H-How..."

"How do you think?"

She choked, laughed, and sputtered at the same time. "Did you read my prayer journal?"

He looked at her thoughtfully. "Is that what they call diaries these days?"

"Don't change the subject," his wife protested even as she failed to keep herself from smiling.

"I'm not. You just don't sound angry enough for me to feel guilty."

Eden was now looking at him like she was torn between doubling over in laughter and divorcing him. "I don't think it's that big a sin, by the way."

His wife stared at him like he had lost his mind at this point.

"I think it was part of His plan, since I ended up believing in your God because of what you wrote."

Her mouth opened and closed, and a smirk curved over his lips. "You think I'm lying?"

"No."

It was his turn to feel disconcerted, with how swiftly she answered him, and in so fierce a tone, too.

"Talk to me, mon ange. " His admission had made her happy. That part, he didn't doubt. But at the same time, there was obviously something else that troubled her now---

"It's nothing."

But because he had yet to win her trust, his hands remained tied.

All he could do was wait.

The choice had to be hers.

And when that day came...

It was his worst fears come true, with his wife choosing to break his heart.