Chapter 3

"Oh come on." You chuckled.

"I'm serious. He obviously wasn't at work and he was hanging out with, whoever that was!"

"Like I said, he was probably on a break."

"He wasn't on a break!"

"Did you see them kissing?"

"I, no, I didn't but-"

"Holding hands? Anything?"

Peter exhaled. "No."

"I seriously don't think that Adam would be cheating on me. Let alone in broad daylight in the city we both live in, come on." You shook your head, grabbing your now empty plate and taking it to the kitchen. You heard him follow you, and you turned around to find him standing in front of you.

"It's suspicious." He said seriously.

"Okay," You put your hands on his shoulders. "I appreciate you telling me. But I can promise you that Adam is not cheating on me."

"He might not be. I hope he isn't!" Peter said. "But you cannot tell me that it's weird that he told you he was working all of Saturday, and he was in town with some other woman!"

You slowly slid your hands off his shoulders. You thought about what he was saying.

"Like I said, you didn't see them kissing. It could have been anything."

"Don't you deserve to know why he lied about working though?" He whispered as he took a cautious step closer to you. He could tell you were struggling to come up with an answer. "He's been doing it so often lately. You need to at least ask him."

"Right," You laughed. "So I have to go up to my boyfriend and say 'Hey, Peter took a picture of you with someone on a bench, are you whoring around?'"

"I mean-"

"No, Peter, come on. He was sitting on a bench. I sit on benches all the time and I'm not cheating on him."

"Luka you're missing-"

"I appreciate that you were concerned, really." You headed to the door. "But I just, there's nothing to ask him about. I um, now I have to go, but I will uhh, text you? I'll text you later." You opened the door, and looked back at him standing in the same spot in his kitchen. "Bye Peter."

You left his apartment, closing the door softly behind you. You leant your head back onto the wood, your eyes closed, thinking back over Peter's conversation. Why was Adam in Queens when he was supposed to be working? No, no. You were right the first time, he was probably on a break, grabbing coffee. It might have even been someone from his work he was sitting with. Adam worked hard. Peter just thought that he saw something different, and like the good friend he was, he was letting you know. Adam wasn't cheating on you. No chance.

On the other side, Peter put his hands over his face and groaned loudly. That's not how he was expecting it to go. He knew what he saw, and he thought you would see it too. That was no work break, or work lunch. Whoever he was with was too close to be just a friend. You were probably angry at him now, suggesting that Adam was cheating without any proof.

He clenched his fists.

Well, maybe he just needed to get proof.

The next day, you were at work, still thinking over your conversation with Peter. You loved your job, and were trying to immerse yourself into it, but Peter's words were still seeping through.

"You look moody." Sasha pouted at you as she put another box on the counter. "Already bored of being around a hundred clit vibrators?" You laughed with her as you put down your shift schedule and helped her open the box.

"Not bored, considering that lately these have been my only friends." You huffed as you started pulling the toys out.

You were the assistant manager of an Adult Store off of Queens Boulevard. You used to get a bit of stick for your job, but then the people making fun of you would quickly realise that you were making more money than them, for less hours and more benefits, so they would quickly stop. Plus, it was way more fun than a stuffy desk job.

"You and Adam broke up?!" Sasha gasped.

"No, no, we didn't." You reassured her. "He's just been working so much I've barely seen him. Although..."

"Although what?"

"Well," You paused. "You know Peter right?"

"Oh yeah, hot guy. Amazing hair."

"Sure," You laughed. "He uhh...well he thinks Adam's lying about working all the time."

"Why would he lie?"

"Well, exactly. I don't think he would. But now I just can't shake the feeling that he might be. Peter saw him out at coffee on Saturday when he said he was working."

"We always pop out for coffee."

"Yeah but we go down the street, not 20 minutes away."

"I see." Sasha nodded in understanding. "What are you gonna do?"

"I suppose I should ask him. But it's just going to sound like I'm crazy, asking him why he wasn't at work because my friend saw him sitting on a bench."

"Hm, not if it turns out he was cheating." Sasha shrugged before walking off to put some of the boxes on the shelves. You froze at her words.

Was it really possible?

You shook yourself out of it. You'd known Adam for 10 months, he wasn't that kind of guy. Not in your opinion anyway.

Your day went on like usual, checking inventory, emails, helping out on the shop floor when breaks were scheduled. During the time you were on the shop floor, you were just waving off a customer when another one entered that you thought you'd seen before.

You waved Sasha over subtly and she slid expertly up to you.

"Yes milady?" She teased.

"Have we seen her before?" You questioned, pointing to the brunette now walking through your store.

"Hmm, nope. Can't say I remember her."

"I know her from somewhere." You whispered, trying to rack your brain. As Leah approached her to ask if she needed help, and the brunette smiled back, it hit you.

It was the girl that Peter saw with Adam, that he took a picture of. You watched her move through your shop as your brain froze for a few seconds.

Well, if Peter thought there was something to worry about between Adam and this girl, this was probably a good chance to find out.

You placed yourself on the side of the store that she was walking through, straightening out some boxes and bottles. You waited until she moved towards the sex toys and then moved to a nearby display.

You waited until she was looking at a specific toy, then approached her.

"That's a great little device, but its battery life isn't too great, just so you know." You said to her.

"Oh really?" She frowned, putting the box back on the shelf. "Which ones are better?"

"I'd say any of these two," You pointed. "Or the entire new line that's just been released, but they're slightly more expensive. Do you have a budget?"

"Not really," She sighed. "Just looking for something that would be easy for my boyfriend to use." She chuckled at the end, and you joined in a second later. "Don't want him getting bored of me so I'm looking to spice things up a bit."

"Of course, yeah. Don't worry we have a lot of people that come in for the same thing." You said reassuringly. "Tell me a bit about your guy. What does he do, what does he like?"

"Um, well," You saw her face go a little pink as she thought. "He's got a kind of boring job to be honest, accounting." You felt yourself still as she said that. That's what Adam did. "And he's been doing all these crazy hours lately so I guess when we get to it, it's a bit..."

"One and done?" You offered.

"Yes, exactly! Exactly. Just need something to...prolong it a bit."

"What about his hobbies?"

"He plays video games, Fifa, Fortnite, that kind of thing."

You swallowed a hard lump in your throat. This was sounding more and more like Adam every second.

"You know, it's a bit out of the box, but..." You mused, leading her over to the more 'experimental shelf'. "It might be worth looking at some things here?"

"Oh he would never let me use that on him!" She giggled awkwardly as she pointed to the anal toys.

"A lot of guys act like that, but they have just never let themselves open up to it. But if that's not something you wanna explore now, we have a lot of rings that are kind of, a step towards that."

"Rings?"

"Yeah, for the base of the penis, the balls, it keeps the blood in one place, makes it more sensitive for him and delays his orgasms so that you can get yours first." You winked, and saw her face light up a little. "They come in a range of simple rubber rings up to vibrating ones, and ones with extra bumps you can wear during sex, so feel free to pick one that you think would be more suited to your guy."

You smiled at her, and she smiled appreciatively back at you, and you headed back to the counter so that she could browse on her own. Sasha was waiting.

"Did you figure out where you knew her from?" Sasha asked.

"Yeah." You dropped your voice to a whisper. "She's the one Peter saw with Adam."

"Oooooooooooh! Did she spill?"

"Not his name. But it sounds a lot like him." You exhaled as you watched her picking up some boxes. "She used the word 'boyfriend'."

"Ooft." Sasha shook her head. "Seems like you need to find out for sure."

After work, you found yourself knocking on Peter's door. Adam had texted you saying he was at work, again, so you knew you wouldn't run into him before you'd spoken to Peter. He opened the door and you were pleased to see he was fully clothed. Not that seeing him in just boxers was completely awful though...

"Hey," He said. "What's up?"

You looked at him, and breathed in before answering.

"We're going to find out whether he's cheating."