“Well, he’s always in my suite,” I said, with a shrug.
“It’s not a problem,” Alani smiled. “I can give you the staff key.”
Alani and I headed over to the reception where she handed me the staff key to Seth’s suite. I thanked her and headed up to his room to surprise him, feeling slightly more positive and very excited.
Alani was right—given how much we both worked, I needed to be pro-active about time with Seth, as opposed to brooding about it. If I wanted things to work out between us, I needed to try as hard as I could.
I got to Seth’s suite and opened the door softly. I tiptoed inside and looked around. We were rarely ever in his suite. It was slightly smaller, and my view was far better. Still, it was a large and beautiful room. I heard the shower running in the bathroom, and I headed over there. I pushed the door open slightly and peered in. The shower was running, and someone was inside, but one look told me that it wasn’t Seth.
I could see a faint outline through the smoky curtain. I could see the perfect silhouette of a naked woman. I froze in shock as my body reacted to seeing a strange woman in Seth’s shower. Her clothes were all over the bathroom floor, and I could hear her humming softly under her breath. Realizing that she hadn’t noticed my presence, I backed out carefully and shut the door.
I stood in Seth’s bedroom for a minute, trying to process what I had just seen. Was it possible that Seth had just been stringing me along this whole time? Had he been sleeping with other women the whole time he had been sleeping with me? I felt hurt and disappointed and betrayed.
But most importantly, I felt like a complete and total fool—a fool who had clung to a perfect daydream instead of facing cold hard reality.