Total pages in book: 154
Estimated words: 142664 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 713(@200wpm)___ 571(@250wpm)___ 476(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 142664 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 713(@200wpm)___ 571(@250wpm)___ 476(@300wpm)
“You have a visitor.” One of the cops appeared out of nowhere.
“Who? Me?” He opened the cell door and let me walk out in front of him. Corbin must’ve finally learned where I was. I was ready to forgive him anything if he got me out of here, but there was no way I was going to let him off the hook completely.
Once I get out of here and back on my feet, I’ll be sure to make him and the rest of them pay for leaving me stuck here. I came up short when I got to the visiting room and saw who was sitting on the other side of the glass.
“You, what’re you doing here?” I picked up the phone and yelled at her. She’s the last person I wanted to see or talk to. I know the bitch was just here to rub it in.
“I just came to tell you that Mitzie is doing well.”
“Mitzie? What about Mitzie? What did you do to my daughter?”
“I said she was doing fine. My daughter and son-in-law sent her out of the country to some fancy cosmetology school. I knew as a mother you would be more worried about her than anything.”
I knew from the look on her face that she was mocking me. We both know that I didn’t think of that girl even once because I knew she didn’t have the money needed to get me out of here, even if they had set bail.
So what? Am I supposed to start feeling bad? “If that’s all you came here for, you can leave.” Wait, what did she mean Alyssa and her husband had sent Mitzie away? “What did your daughter do to my daughter?”
“I just told you. By the way, there are some things I need to tell you now that’s you’re behind bars and can’t harm anyone else. Corbin and I have been together all along. We just kept up the pretense because of your threat against our child.”
“I spent the last decade laughing at you behind your back. You got to do all the cooking and cleaning while I reaped the benefits. Didn’t you ever wonder how he could go that long without sex?” She had the nerve to smirk at me and I hated her more in that moment than ever before. She had to be making it up. There’s no way I wouldn’t have noticed something like that going on right under my nose.
“You bitch, you’re lying. I knew where he was at all times.”
“Yes, you knew he left to go to work each day, but did you know that he had been working from home long before it became a thing? That’s right, for the last five years, since all the kids were out of the house, he has spent every day with me at our home.”
“When Alyssa was still in school here, he used to leave before school let out, but after she left, all those late nights at the office were actually spent with me. I’ve been on almost every work trip he’s taken in the last twelve years as well.”
It can’t be. Then what the hell does that make me? I lived in that house with him all these years where he treated me like a stranger. He started taking more and more out-of-town trips for work to get away from me, but I didn’t mind because his absence freed me up to have my own affairs. “You’re lying; you’re making it all up.”
I fought back tears of anger and hate as my heart sank. No wonder she never made a stink after that first year. They must’ve all been laughing at me. She, Corbin, and their kids. Who else knew? How many people?
“I would’ve heard something if this was true.”
“The reason you heard nothing is because no one likes you. All those times Corbin went to his family’s home and events without you, we were together. They would never tell you because they don’t like you and you never belonged. You were nothing more than the adulterous slut who climbed onto a married man’s bed.”
“Don’t worry, I made him pay as well, but we made up a long time ago. So, you see, you didn’t win anything. And thanks to the prenup you signed, you’ll get nothing in the divorce. Oh, and by the way, some of the wives of the men you cheated with are looking into suing you for alienation of affection.”
“That’s not even a thing.”
“Oh, but it is. So, if you own anything it will most likely go to them if they go through with it. But you don’t own anything, do you? You didn’t come into the marriage with anything, and you’re leaving it with even less. You haven’t worked in how long now?”
“Shut your mouth.” If I could reach through the glass partition, I would’ve strangled her with my bare hands. I refused to let her see that her words were getting to me in any way, but the truth of her words rang true. I have no pension, no savings, nothing. I wasn’t prepared for this.