The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 381

The Biggest Lie

MARY’S POV:

The words did not sound right to me. I had lived with Alistair long enough, and watched him cover his tracks enough times, to know that believing him without proof was always a mistake. There was something in his voice, a strange note in the way he delivered the news, that made my stomach turn over.

“Who called you just now?” I asked him quietly. “You set up a special ringtone on your phone for urgent calls. Your mother never had a special ringtone. Your assistant does not have one either. The only person you ever assigned that specific ring tone to was…”

I trailed off as the full truth suddenly settled into my brain like a weight.

He had set up a custom ringtone for Vesper.

Of course he had. He had given her a direct, special chime on his phone so he would always know the second she needed him, placing her above everyone else without ever telling me. He gave her that level of attention and intimacy while I was sitting right beside him at the dinner table.

I had never had a special ringtone on his phone.

To him, I was just the background noise of his life. I was the default setting, the person he took for granted because he assumed I would always be there. The wife. The mother. The woman who stayed at home, waited up late, and cleaned up whatever mess he left behind, no matter how terribly he treated her.

I felt like such a fool.

Alistair let out another long sigh, his shoulders slumping down as if he were carrying a heavy sack. “It was the doctor calling from her phone, Mary. Look, I know you are furious with me, and I know you have every right to be upset about everything. But please trust me on this one thing. There is nothing happening between Vesper and me right now. You are my wife. You will always be my wife.”

Those words hit my chest like heavy rocks.

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