Niamh had a point. I had to admit I would have been suspicious if I had been faced with those pictures and Valerie would probably have come off a lot worse than she'd given me. Deep down I knew she wasn't wrong. If I'd been on the receiving end of those pictures, I'd have found myself in the nearest gun store buying a Glock and hunting the fucker down... but this isn't her it's me. And I'm innocent.
When Val said, she wanted to believe me and then hesitated, I saw red. In front of me stood the girl I'd give my life for. I loved her with every bone in my body. But... and it was a huge but, I had to ask myself if I could live a life where my fidelity was constantly in question and I had to face constant challenges to prove my innocence all the time? I'd never once given Valerie cause to doubt me and yet this one negative piece of press had cancelled out everything positive we'd accomplished in our lives together.