7

Monique was young, even with the age difference, yet, she adored Paul's children, she made everyone feel good around her.

Even with a few years between the stepchildren, he thought it was good, life behind the doors of their house, they seemed like a happy couple, everything was new and different for them, at that time, they were growing up, he saw almost a source of youth, being with a younger woman, was the bliss he was in.

He was in the military, which he's still active in, he got a calling, he was called a call to go to the middle east, he spoke for honours, and serving the country and having such a responsibility, when Monique and the kids find out and get upset and he trusted Monique to raise the kids.

He would be away for 2 years, she is worried about responsibilities, so he asks.

- How are you? – He questioned.

- I'll be fine, now I would have to do things on my own.

The oath he took to his country at the age of 23 was defined by marriage, she was lost when he went to the Middle East, he spent a month without the head of the family around, the routine and discipline disappeared. At first Monique felt scared, she made the decision to take the fun by following her own stepchildren and their friends.

She had the chance to have a new life, for some reason these high school teenagers, soon the rumours spread that this was the house of the teen hangout.

He was a young man 20 years old, his name was Regan, he had a different life, he dropped out of school, as he was focused on his studies, he made life at home difficult, the tension, between him and his mother, it was increasing, when he got tired of the rules, the politics of the house, not bad, that he ran away from the rules of the house.

What Monique saw in Regan, who was Arab, in addition to flirting with the Bad Boy boy, getting involved with the lonely housewife, is the height of adolescent fantasy.

She offers him, the solution, she invited the boy to sleep, she was offering much more, things evolved, at the end of that spring, she took him upstairs, now, Monique is ready for more than just talking, pulling Regan in for their first kiss.

They had chemistry, it was forbidden in any aspect that you can see, there was no healthy future for that relationship, forbidden loves with a violent outcome and no return.

He liked his relationship with the older woman, Regan told his mother that he was an adult and not bossed around by her anymore.

- I do what I want, you don't order me, I'm leaving. - He said.

The friend's stepmother transaction, for the transaction, Monique was experiencing physical, sexual and fantasy satisfaction, she was not reasoning, she had a forbidden relationship.

On the other side of the world, when Petty Officer Smith every autumn, while her husband was working in another country,

Satisfaction, physical, sexual, emotional and psychological, acting risky, she just felt that she was in search of happiness and pleasure, and the relationship they knew of the two, they knew that Regan simply came and went when he wanted.

- I have great news to tell you. - He said.

Monique would be afraid, she is emotionally involved, now, she finds herself in a difficult position, he would leave, in a year...

- I'm going to spend the festivities with the family, at Christmas. - He said.

Monique had to decide about that situation, she fell in love with her, she has two men in her life who believe she has a commitment to him.

Before Paul arrived for the holidays, Monique and Regan discussed what they had to do, which was steeped in a cauldron of sex and lies.

Monique is not ready to tell Paul this, this situation could not end well, leaving the two cornered, it made everything more intense, immersed in a cauldron of sex and lies.

They knew how this would turn out, they came to a decision, she wasn't ready to end her relationship with Regan.

Monique asked Paul's children for help, the two teenagers, who just wanted her to be happy, that none of that spilled over on them.

Back and Zeca, they knew that none of this ends well

- I just don't want your father to know that, they ended up arguing about what to do.

Promise not to tell him. - She asked.

Back and Zeca, they knew that this situation had no solution.

They knew what the consequences would be if this became public, the whole neighbourhoods knew what they were doing.

Monique was going to see what Paul would do when he got home.

Even with their father's bond with the children, they themselves had friendship and secrets from all their friends.

What would be the consequences if the information got out, and the consequences for your family.

The part of your friend group, the loyalty, of not ratting out your friends.

They decided to keep it a secret, so, in December, Monique went to pick him up at the airport, what Paul doesn't know is that at that exact moment, there was another man, when he was running, in case Regan took her things out of the house, minutes before Paul returned.

She was happy, the kids were happy, as any people would be.

This happiness is short-lived, when they receive a visit from a boy who came to visit Monique, at that time, Monique's secret life is one step away from being revealed.

He noticed that Regan and Monique didn't know each other, the teenager's unexpected visit, not connecting the dots, doing things that defy logic.

Monique went to the funeral of someone who was Regan's friend, when she came back, Paul doesn't understand that he is his son's friend, that there was the man.

He didn't have an intuition, as to the fact that he was jealous, he was present, in a way he couldn't see Monique, he turned to Lestad, who was his friend, boyfriend of Monique's husband's daughter.

Back at the Smiths' house, on December 17, 2020, she got a little distant, she proposed a romantic day, they even suggested that they have a romance day, when they would go on a picnic.

They then, at night are going to the park, when she makes a basket with wine, until in a fraction of seconds their happiness is destroyed.

When her husband Paul is about to find out what happened behind his back.

There was a call for help, at night, near the park between the pier, when they heard screams.

When the police found both of them, they saw that he was stabbed and shot in the head, while Monique was shot in the shoulder, according to their accounts.

- We were surrounded by two men.

She thought she saw two people, the police didn't see anyone, but they believe there was a thief in the area, which could be a robbery.

A few hours later, while taking Paul to the hospital, he dies hours later, so the police begin a suspected homicide investigation, in her statements, which she was in doubt as to what to say.