The party was a success. People talked about it for a long time. Helen played her role as a hostess very well. She acted in a way that no one could suspect there was anything between Jacob and her! She began feeling comfortable in her red dress that she hated it when she had put it on.
All the women in the party complimented her dress and her beauty. Evidentially, Steve's plan to show her off as a loose woman did not work.
Melisa, Jacob's wife, was wearing a black, velvet dress. It was a very simple, short, and strapless dress. She was also wearing a black velvet stole with red satin lining around her shoulder. She wore her hair in a French twist. Amongst all the women, Melisa and Helen were the prettiest; and Jacob had both of them.
Helen was sure that Melisa did not know Helen was her husband's mistress; even though she knew of his adultery.
The dinner was served; but people decided to take their plates and sit in different places in group of two- three, or more. Helen noticed that Steve, Jacob, and John, the friend who had had the accident, were together the entire evening, talking, drinking, laughing!. She, herself, drank a lot, although it was her tactics not to drink too much when she gave a party!
Since Steve had told her earlier offensive things again, she decided to act the role of what Steve had called her! She was sexy and flirtatious. She swished her red chiffon dress when walking, began to feel comfortable in her low cut dress that showed her wide, beautiful back and her cleavage in the front! She noticed that Jacob's eyes followed her everywhere; but she had made up her mind that night to break up with him. She thought to herself: "Even if his father- in- law forced him to come to this party, he could had done something to refuse it!" If he truly loved her the way he always said he did, he could had found a way not to come to her home and befriended her husband!
In her drunkenness, she believed that at one point, Jacob loved her for who she was; but as he had become a powerful lawyer in the law firm, and had noticed that most of these successful men had wives and a mistress at the side, he had also changed; and Helen had become just an affair, just a mistress, not a true love that she had been before! She believed that the childhood crush, the love of that New Year's Eve party did not exist anymore. It was now all about having an affair. But she also knew that she had always loved Jacob! Now this love had changed to a love with disgust!!
To Be Continued
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