Something has been really bugging me about the reason for James’ absence, and a lot of things don’t add up.
Whilst in the Library, just before the MC visits her and they kiss, Bella thinks the following:
“Married women don’t fool around with young students.”
“...”
“They aren’t intimate with friend’s either…”
“But that…That was different!”
“It doesn’t matter… I’ve stopped it.”
“Please, James… forgive me.”
“Please, just come home again”
“It’s been long enough…”
This makes me think that Bella cheated on her husband with one of her friend’s and James left her because of that.
Then in the pool, just before the MC makes a move on her, Bella thinks the following.
“It’s adultery… isn’t it.”
“Can I just decide to move on?”
“What if James comes home?”
“Would he blame me if I did this?”
“After all this time?”
“I have forgiven him…”
This now feels like James left because of a mistake he made, maybe he cheated on Bella?
Bella in bed with Jill, after MC comes round to speak to Cathy.
J: “Is something wrong?”
B: “No. Nothing’s wrong.”
J: “If you say so…”
J: “It’s not going to happen again.”
B: “I thought we had an understanding.”
J: “We do. That’s what I wanted to assure you of.”
B: “I don’t need to be reassured. I need you to stop talking about it.”
Jill mentions she was going to sleep on the couch and then storms off, Bella then pushes her wedding photo onto the floor.
We know that Bella doesn’t have many friends, could Jill be the one she cheated on her Husband with? She does say before that married woman aren’t intimate with friend’s either… I would be very disappointed if this was to be the case, as this is a bit to close to Josy and Maya’s path, but, currently what else could that conversation mean other than what I just said?
Then just after the tit-fuck scene in the MC’s new bedroom, Bella thinks the following:
“No, not a relationship. Adultery.”
“You’re an adulteress.”
“You’ve become something you hate.”
She is now only just becoming an adulteress? But before it seemed like the reason James left was because she was intimate with a friend, thus meaning she is already an adulteress. Plus, her conversation with Jill in the bedroom, what else could that mean other than them being intimate together in the past?
At a push maybe, as the line she says seems like a new thought, we can think that the married woman she is talking about is not her, and that she was a friend of Bella and James and she had an intimate moment with Bella’s husband.
And then the following line of I stopped it, could mean how she stopped the MC from going further with her when he first kissed her.
Maybe that person was Jade? As we know Bella doesn’t like Jade, because she does say she is becoming something she hates…
And the Jill conversation in bed could be about something completely different that we will find out about later?
I would love to hear other people’s opinion on this.
