The fifth time my husband stayed out all night, I didn’t call him—I opened his company’s Slack and told more than five hundred employees

I was part of the scenery while Jasmine enjoyed the attention at Aaron’s side.

She could keep it. He believed I’d committed a terrible act by embarrassing him before five hundred employees. But the Slack message wasn’t my attempt at vengeance. It marked my departure. Leaving Nathan’s office, I knew that, for the first time, Aaron would have to see the woman he’d spent three years overlooking. I had no intention of fading into the background again.

Chapter 2: THE WIFE WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO STAY

Aaron returned at 8: