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

My husband had tried to help her.

And both of them had made choices that hurt me.

I could understand their motives without pretending those choices were acceptable.

But the hardest conversation was still waiting for me.

I needed to decide what happened next in my marriage.

Chapter Seven: The Money Wasn’t the Only Problem

That evening, Eliam and I sat across from each other at the kitchen table.

For the first time in days, there were no distractions.

No television.

No phones.

No convenient excuse to leave the room.