Wife's Betrayal, Best Friend's Stab

Wife's Betrayal, Best Friend's Stab

Xi Jin

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It was our third anniversary, three years of playing the perfect husband to Chloe Sterling, the silent engine behind her family' s empire. Then she tossed a leather-bound scrapbook onto the table, a 'gift' chronicling her affairs, page after page of my humiliation. But the world truly tilted on page eighty-seven: a photo of Chloe and Mark, my best friend, my brother, smiling on a ski lift in Aspen, with her cruel caption: "He was number eighty-seven, but don't worry, I upgraded him. He' s in the top ten now." My wife was flaunting her infidelity, not just with strangers, but with the man who stood by me at my wedding, and the worst part? She confessed it was all "to see if you'd notice. To see if you even care." The air left my lungs; the marriage that had been my entire world crumbled into an unbearable humiliation, leaving me with one desperate thought: I had to leave.

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It was our third anniversary, three years of playing the perfect husband to Chloe Sterling, the silent engine behind her family' s empire.

Then she tossed a leather-bound scrapbook onto the table, a 'gift' chronicling her affairs, page after page of my humiliation.

But the world truly tilted on page eighty-seven: a photo of Chloe and Mark, my best friend, my brother, smiling on a ski lift in Aspen, with her cruel caption: "He was number eighty-seven, but don't worry, I upgraded him. He' s in the top ten now."

My wife was flaunting her infidelity, not just with strangers, but with the man who stood by me at my wedding, and the worst part? She confessed it was all "to see if you'd notice. To see if you even care."

The air left my lungs; the marriage that had been my entire world crumbled into an unbearable humiliation, leaving me with one desperate thought: I had to leave.

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