Alfred could do nothing but sighed at the way Brettly was acting towards his wife.  He had worked so hard to make his marriage work and here he was willing to throw it all away in a drunken stupor.   “I believe what I know, Mr. Brettly and Ms. Miranda loves you and she is still feeling lost inside so when a person takes medication and liquor it makes them do and say stupid things.”  Alfred sighed, “Try to remember the times your father did the same to your mother” Alfred said then dropped a piece of paper on Brettly’s lap with the directions to the cabin where he knew Miranda had gone.  There were times when Alfred kept Miranda’s secrets and then times he kept Brettly’s secrets, but this was a time they both needed him to speak up.<br/>Alfred had met Thomas on his way in the house and all Alfred could do was shake his head.  Alfred knew that something like this was going to happen one day and to be honest it was everyone that was involved fault; each and every one had a role.  People seem to think that the butler never knows anything, when in fact they know everything.<br/><br/>&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&<br/><br/>Thomas should have known that Brettly was not going to listen to anything that he was saying because who knew how much he had to drink.  Thomas had always hid his feelings from Brettly and had been trying to be supporting friend, but even Thomas has a breaking point.  “You really have no clue about anything do you.  I have always been your friend and tried to help you run your business and I will continue to do so, but I couldn’t take it anymore. “Thomas said and began to pace.<br/><br/>“I have always been jealous of what you had, and always wanted it.  I took a back seat and watched you tear apart a beautiful woman you were suppose to love at ever chance you could get.  I was the one who had to pick up all the pieces of that woman who would sit alone in the dark and just cry wanting to know why you hated her so much.  What she had done to deserve your wrath against her?”  Thomas tried not to cry while he spoke.<br/><br/>“Then when your mother died I took a backseat and watched the two of you start to become so close and her I was losing my best friend who would vent to me when he was mad at his wife, or the best friend to the wife who cried on my shoulder when her husband was a ass.”  Thomas sighed, “Suddenly I was not needed by anyone and I was left alone to care for things, so yes I got even more jealous.”<br/><br/>Thomas stopped for a moment and glared at Brettly, “So when this beautiful woman disappeared I felt like I was finally wanted again that you needed me for more than running your business.  Then when we found her and she lost her memories I felt like I was going to get her back too.  Of course I still tried to keep my distance.  But then her she kissed me twice already and she didn’t remember her loving and caring husband.”  Thomas could not believe how much he was telling Brettly, but then he had nothing less to lose.<br/><br/>“When she left again I thought this was going to be the perfect chance for me to convince her to leave you and be with me, but then I couldn’t do it.  I love you both like you are my family.  But when I remembered where she could be and I went up there, I lectured her like I always do.  She looked so beautiful in that towel and then I started drinking and she was already drunk I.”  Thomas sighed once again.  “She lost her balance and when I went to help her up and she lost her towel I could not help but kiss her back.  I had dreamed for so many years to have her in this position, so when she returned my kiss I was lost in a lustful, drunk induced haze.  But one minute everything was enjoyable to me and the next she was like ‘Oh Brettly’ and I couldn’t take it.  Damn bitch I was the one making you feel this way, not that damn man who couldn’t give a shit.  That’s what I was thinking in my mind.”  Thomas stopped and the tears were falling down his check.<br/><br/>“I threw her hard into the wall and about gripped her breasts roughly, all the time she was begging me to stop.  I rammed my cock in her so hard she screamed and cried in pain.  Still begging me to stop.”  Thomas stopped for a moment and took a breath, “The next thing I remember is she was screaming Richard’s name telling him to quit hurting her and just kill her this time and that’s what woke me up.”<br/><br/>Thomas knew that he was going to get his ass beat and probably lose his job, but he screwed up because of his jealous and wanted to fix it.  “She was the one that wanted to forget the whole thing; she was the one that kept acting like nothing happened.  I asked and begged her to call the cops, I know what I did to the woman I loved.  Knowing Miranda the way I do, she probably wanted to make love to you to remind herself she was worth something in her eyes, not just something to be used and abused and look where that got her.”  Thomas said and then took the key and threw it at Brettly.  “You will have my resignation in the morning.”  Thomas said and left the room.