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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karin Schill" data-source="post: 234171">Thank you everyone for the feedback and ratings. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I'm glad you found the last part to be that  good [USER=66]@superman fan[/USER]  <img src="http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/love/s0308.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hugs:" title="Hugs    :hugs:" data-shortname=":hugs:" />Now there's only one more chapter to go of this story. I hope  you'll like where it ends. *Chapter twentyBobby had barely slept a wink all night as he’d spent most of the night worrying about his wife. Ann had not returned to their room to sleep all night and it was not like her. Sure yesterday had been her daughter’s wedding day so Bobby assumed that she’d been out celebrating all night long. The party had still gone on when he’d left it and gone to the hotel to sleep around midnight. But he had expected his wife to be here in the morning when he woke up. So when she wasn’t he was really alarmed. He picked up his cell phone and called her on speed dial. Then he could suddenly hear a phone signal that went off. He looked up in the direction of the sound just in time to see his wife walk in through the door.“Bobby!” She smiled sheepishly, as she realized that she’s just been busted.“Annie where have you been all night?” He asked in a worried tone of voice.“Um...” Ann looked down, feeling guilty. But then she remembered that Bobby had started this when he had cheated on her with Pam. So she looked up, giving him an angry look, “That is none of your business.”Her reply angered him and he lashed out at her, “Of course it is, I am your husband!”“Well you should have remembered that before you jumped into bed with Pam,” Ann argued and he could see in her eyes that she was still hurt by his cheating.“Oh so is that what this is all about?” Bobby sighed.”You decided to stay out all night to punish me?”“No,” Ann shook her head. “I spent the night with Harris.”“You did what?” He exploded.“I slept with my ex, like you did!” She spelled it out for him and seeing the anger and hurt expression in his eyes she almost relished in hurting him like he had hurt her.“Oh Annie I’m so sorry,” Bobby shook his head. “That you had to degrade yourself like that because I hurt you and...”“It wasn’t like that,” Ann insisted. “Besides you have no right to pass judgment since you slept with Pam before I slept with Harris!”“Yeah but that is different,” Bobby said. “I love Pam. We never would have gotten divorced if it hadn’t been for the meddling of other people.”“I know and it kills me to be married to a man who doesn’t love me,” Ann said in a broken voice, as a tear ran down her cheek.“But I do love you,” Bobby tried to reassure her but his words didn’t help since she could feel that something had changed between them.“Not in the way that you love her,” Ann cried and something flickered in Bobby’s eyes. The pain was written all over his face. “Don’t deny it since I can feel it. Ever since she came back into our lives you’ve been obsessed with her and therefore I think it’s better for everyone involved if we just get a divorce so you’re free to be with her.”Bobby dropped his chin, as he could never have imagined that Ann would be the one to ask for it, “You’re asking me for a divorce?”“Yeah, our marriage should have been over a long time ago,” Ann sighed. “But we’ve been clinging on to it thinking it will get better.”“That’s not true,” He denied it. “Yes we’ve been having problems. But we’ve worked through them and I thought we were good now,” He sighed. “Besides all marriages takes some work to last.”“I know but don’t you see that we’ve been trying too hard?” Ann tried to make him see the light. “But now it’s time to face the music. You and I are not good for each other Bobby. We don’t trust each other.”“Sure we do,” Bobby said.“No we don’t,” Ann insisted “If you really trusted me you would have told me the real reason why you wanted to go to Emma’s wedding.”He crossed his arms defensively, “What are you talking about?”“I know Bobby,” Ann said accusingly and seeing the confusion on his face she added after a beat. “I know that Lucas is your son!”“Oh,” Bobby made a face, as his arms fell back to his side, “How did you find out?”“I overheard you and Jenna argue yesterday and it hurt like hell to realize that my own husband doesn’t even trust me enough to tell me he has another son!”“Oh Annie, I don’t know what to say. I know I’ve hurt you,” he admitted and the pain was visible in his hazel eyes, “But to go to Harris Ryland of all people. Don’t you remember how he’s hurt you before?”“Yes but he’s a changed man,” Ann said. “He’s grown some balls to stand up to Judith now.”“He is still a piece of work,” Bobby said warningly. “You deserve better than to be with a scum like that.”“I deserve to be with the man I love and that’s Harris,” Ann said.“You can’t be serious?” Bobby dropped his chin. “Please Annie tell me you’re joking.”“It’s no joke,” Ann said in a small voice. “I love Harris just like you love Pam!”Bobby sighed when he heard that, since he had been blind. Apparently his marriage was in more trouble than he’d thought. Sure he knew that Harris still loved Ann. But he hadn’t expected the feeling to be mutual. But seeing Ann standing before him now he knew that his marriage was over. Yet he had nothing but compassion for her, “I pity you then!”“I don’t need your pity. I just need you to let me go,” Ann said pleadingly. “I’m serious Bobby. I love Harris and I want to be with him.”“I find that hard to believe,” Bobby shook his head.“It is true,” Ann insisted. “I don’t know about you, but I think we should be with the people we’re in love with.”Hearing her reasoning he knew that he had to let her go. It killed him to know that she’d be divorcing him to spend time with a scum like Harris Ryland since Ann deserved better than that. She was a good woman who deserved to be treated like a lady. He knew Harris would never do right by her. But he also knew that they were miserable together and Ann was offering him a chance of happiness. If he divorced her he could have a third chance with Pam and despite all logics he knew in his heart that’s what he really wanted. So he caved in.“Alright you’ll get your divorce,” Bobby sighed. “But try not getting killed by Ryland.”“That is ridiculous,” Ann said. “Harris will never hurt me again.”“He caused Pam’s accident,” Bobby informed her. But Ann wasn’t easily scared off by that.“Like you said it was an accident,” Ann said.“No he drove out on purpose,” Bobby said. “He took money from a terrorist to do it.”“Well maybe he was working under cover,” Ann made up excuses for Harris.“You don’t even believe that yourself,” Bobby said. “You know Harris is capable of most anything. He kidnapped your baby and that’s why you tried to kill him!”“That was a crime of passion,” Ann told him. “I thought I hated Harris. But the line between love and hate can be quite thin. Besides I know now that the whole kidnapping of Emma was all Judith’s doing.”“But he still went along with it!”“Because he was weak,” Ann said. “But he’s not weak anymore.”“Is there nothing I can say to make you see what a mistake you’re making?”“No,” Ann said. “There’s nothing left to say.”“Alright then, I hope you won’t regret this.”“And I hope you will be as happy with Pam as I will be with Harris,” Ann said, as the tears ran down her cheek.“Thank you Annie,” Bobby said, before he walked up to Ann and gave her a hug. It felt like a bittersweet goodbye since there really was no animosity between them. They were simply two people who had grown apart. They were in love with other people and therefore they both wanted out of their marriage.</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?