April Fools “Surprise” Husband Divorcing Me For His “Pure” Girl novel Chapter 29

Chapter 8

Day forty-eight of lockdown.

The end was finally in sight.

News kept saying next Monday-full reopening, flights back up and running

Ryan’s calls went from every other day to twice a day.

still not me he was calling. Always Diana.

But every single conversation was about me.

She’s been talking to lawyers?”

Wait, she’s working again? At the institute?”

What’s her vibe? She say anything about working things out?”

Hlana’s response never changed: “Ask her yourself. I’m staying out of it”

irst time in her life she’d told her golden boy I can’t fix this for you.

he was terrified.

tot of me.

of the stack of papers she kept refusing to look at.

larrison didn’t just collect evidence.

le dug up Ryan’s overseas spending. Took some finesse, but completely legal-joint credit card meant I had every right to see where our money went.

hree pages of charges when he printed it out.

op of the list: $4,800 a month for some standalone house in the Auckland suburbs. That’s like $21,000 in real money.

hen jewelry. Two separate purchases. $3,200 and $5,100.

urniture stores. Electronics.

nd a pet shop.

hey got a fucking cat.

stared at that line forever. PetCentral – $380.

ive years I’d been asking for a cat.

ive years he told me he was allergic.

ive years I believed him.

When I got home that night, I moved Diana’s stuff out of the master bedroom.

All of it. Into the spare room.

Then I grabbed the last of Ryan’s clothes still hanging in the doset-couple old shirts, a jacket-folded them, shoved them in a box, buried it in the storage closet.

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Diana stood in the hallway watching. Didn’t say a word.

Just gripped the wall, lips shaking like she wanted to speak but couldn’t.

Turned around and disappeared into the spare room.

That night I slept right in the middle of the king bed. Tossed both extra pillows on the floor.

Our wedding photo was still on the nightstand.

flipped it face-down.

Didn’t throw it away.

le could deal with it when he came crawling back.

Harrison’s final email came through around midnight.

‘ull breakdown. Full litigation strategy.

ne: Reverse that bullshit property sale. Claw back the $840K he basically gave away.

wo: Get back the $455K he drained from our account.

hree: Press criminal charges for the forged mortgage signature.

our: Infidelity claim. He cheated, he pays. Literally.

ive: I keep the apartment. He keeps the debt.

read through it twice.

arrison’s note at the end:

Emma-we’ve got everything. But heads up, if we file, his career’s toast. Credit’s destroyed. Just want you to know what you’re pulling the trigger on.”

sat there staring at my phone.

hree seconds.

yped back: Do it.

e didn’t think twice before leaving me.

hy the hell should I?

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