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    A Gentleman's Pride: The Tainted Series
    A Gentleman's Pride: The Tainted Series
    A Gentleman's Pride: The Tainted Series
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    A Gentleman's Pride: The Tainted Series

    By T.L. Tate

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    Following the events of A Gentleman’s Folly, Jacob is enraged when he discovers that his wife, Rachel, is still meeting with her denounced lover, Alex. Finding them entering a hotel together, Jacob goes on the warpath. This novella explores the rocky road of marriage, especially after that marriage has been shaken up by infidelity, lies and secrets. Jacob and Rachel each try to do what they think is right only to find that their actions lead to more devastating complications on both sides. However, despite their shortsighted attempts and failings, they each struggle to maintain what remains of their misguided trust and broken marriage. This story was written for anyone who has ever been in an imperfect relationship, which was comprised of two people missing the mark and making mistakes at one too many turns. Enjoy!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherT.L. Tate
    Release dateSep 2, 2017
    ISBN9781370982226
    A Gentleman's Pride: The Tainted Series
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    T.L. Tate

    I love books. It has been a dream of mine since I was a child to author a book. A couple of years I gave it a try. It's hard work and I'm still learning but despite that...I love it! I love creating new worlds and falling in love with the characters that I create. I love hearing from fans or watching the downloads of my books increase. I love it because I know that in some way, I'm reaching someone that I wouldn't have before. Being an author is a great gift and I'm grateful to have the opportunity to share my stories with the world.

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      A Gentleman's Pride - T.L. Tate

      A Gentleman’s Pride:

      The Tainted Series

      By T.L. Tate

      Copyright 2017 by T.L. Tate

      Distributed by Smashwords

      Cover Photo Copyright of NeonShot/Shutterstock

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      ***ATTENTION!***

      Hearts that Bleed has been released! Check inside for a link to a free sample of the novel.

      Thanks for your support!

      ~T.L. Tate~

      ~Pride without Wisdom makes a Fool~

      Contents:

      Main Story

      Hearts that Bleed! –Sample–

      About T.L.

      More Stories

      A Gentleman’s Pride:

      The Tainted Series

      Room 721. I knew what awaited me in there—my wife and her lover. After years together, she started having an affair with him, which had become sexual 4 months ago. I found all this out close to a week ago. It was the day before my 30th birthday. Rachel, my wife, had told me that she was called to a last minute conference that was to be held in San Francisco and that she wouldn’t return until the following Monday. This was the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. Up until then, I had continued to put up with our deteriorating relationship. In the beginning our relationship was filled with mutual love and respect but it seems that the moment after we said our vows, all of that changed. In the following years it was like being married to a stranger. I tried everything that I could to express my love and appreciation towards her but nothing that I did seemed to matter. I doted on her. I honored her. I cherished her. Everything that I did, I did for her but with each attempt, I felt like the two of us got further and further apart.

      I felt down and was hurt after Rachel left to go on her trip. It wasn’t until her little sister, Toni, came over that I found out the truth. I’ve known Toni for almost as long as I’ve known Rachel. She’s a beautiful, curvy and capable woman who is now one of my subordinates at work. Last Thursday, before I made it home, Rachel confessed to Toni the truth behind her illicit affair. Toni gave Rachel 24 hours to tell me the truth, but instead she left on a weekend excursion to Las Vegas with her lover.

      After finding out the truth, I fell into a downward spiral. Toni was the one that helped rescue me from my heartache. Her words were supportive. Her heart was a radiating column of strength. But it was her actions that really got through to me. One minute after midnight, Toni appeared at my bedside and woke me. She offered her body to me as a way to help me heal. However, it had another effect. She helped transform me from a man that allowed his wife to walk all over him, to a man that stood his ground. Toni offered me her innocence and in that I found a wealth of strength that I never knew existed. However, despite our carnal experience, Toni still pushed me to forgive her sister and not divorce her. Given what I had taken away from Toni, I felt that I didn’t have the right to refuse.

      In a moment of foolishness, Rachel contacted me via text to wish me a happy birthday and to send me a picture of some lingerie that she claimed was bought with me in mind. Of course, she didn’t know that I had been made aware of her lies and that at that very moment she was shacked up with the guy she was cheating on me with. Therefore, all it took to bring her lies crashing down around her was me simply telling her to enjoy Las Vegas, to which she responded that she would. She failed to stick to her original lie that she was going to be in San Francisco.

      Upon realizing that I knew the truth she practically tripped over herself to make it back home, leaving her lover alone in Vegas. I wanted to kick her to the curb. I wanted to leave her and never look back but I couldn’t…rather, I didn’t. She carried on an emotional affair for 2-years and a sexual affair for 4-months. That was horrible, despicable and majorly fucked up. However, I did sleep with her sister so I wasn’t exactly Mr. Innocent in all of this. Although I didn’t think she deserved it, I had no choice but to give her a second chance.

      But that second chance didn’t come cheap. Marriage counseling, avoidance and being relegated to the guest bedroom were the prices she had to pay to keep me in the marriage. But this was nothing more than a stopgap. I wasn’t very confident that there was anything that we could do to repair the destroyed trust and to rebuild my feelings for her. But all of that changed the day that I came home and saw her crying.

      Apparently, while I was at work, her bedmate, Alex, came by the house and threatened her. I wasn’t having it. Betrayed or not, no one was going to come to my house and bully my wife. No one! While I contemplated murder, she claimed that she had it all under control. I kept refining my plans but since she wouldn’t give up his address, I had to leave it to her to deal with. Perhaps it was my lingering feelings. Perhaps it was seeing her in pain. Perhaps I was just tired of being stuck in a marriage that didn’t seem to be heading in the right direction. Whatever it was, upon seeing her, those recent wounds opened back up and my bleeding heart poured out. Despite the pain and betrayal, I loved her. Later that night we fell in bed with each other.

      The next day we had our marriage counseling with the alluring Dr. Amara Jeffries. Rachel openly admitted to having an affair and although I slept with Toni in a moment of pain after finding out about Rachel’s affair, I didn’t come clean and admit stepping out on her too. Instead, I admitted that over the years

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