My Husband Claimed He Was Going to Work Every Morning, Until I Discovered He Had Been on Leave for a Week—Then I Followed Him and Saw Who He Was Secretly Meeting

it.

He had apparently finished whatever meeting he had been attending and had returned to the ordinary rhythm of pretending that everything was normal.

I typed:

Fine. How about yours?

His response came quickly.

Busy, as usual. Might be late tonight.

I put my phone down.

That evening, I decided I would confront him.

Not with accusations about an affair. Not with assumptions about my sister.

I would ask one simple question.

Why had he lied to me?

When Eliam arrived home, he seemed distracted. He placed his keys on