Chapter 2
A week ago, my husband Ryan told me his company was sending him on assignment he’d be gone for at least a month or two.
One moment I was saying a tearful goodbye, the next I was celebrating my father’s generous gift of an entire building.
Come to think of it, I’d been so busy managing the property and counting rent checks.
I hadn’t really talked to Ryan in a while.
I opened our chat history my last message was asking if he’d landed safely a week ago.
No reply, no messages since then.
The timeline clicked – the woman moved into 301 that same week.
Was my husband really keeping a mistress right under my nose?
The doubt grew stronger as I heard them getting more… vigorous downstairs. My hands shaking, I hit the video call button on Ryan’s contact.
He declined after two rings.
The nerve of him, hanging up on me?
I started spam–calling him.
Each call was rejected until finally, his phone went straight to voicemail.
I sat on the cold floor, listening numbly to the sounds of pleasure from below.
After what felt like forever, the noises subsided.
Ryan finally called me back.
I tried to stand but my legs had gone numb, making me collapse back onto the floor.
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His flushed face filled my screen.
Wiping sweat from his chest, he said: “Sorry babe, I was at the gym. Couldn’t answer
earlier.”
“When are you coming home?” My voice was emotionless.
The moment the call connected, I knew he was in 301.
I recognized the distinctive bay window design unique to that unit.
Ryan didn’t notice anything odd in my tone. Instead, he smirked: “Missing me, huh? Once
you.” the boss approves my leave, I’ll try to spend a few days home with
So he was planning to stay away even longer.
We’d been married five years, weathered every hardship together from running from city inspectors in summer to freezing in a windowless basement in winter.
I was waiting for him to come home to our fresh start, to enjoy our beautiful new home that was finally mine.
Instead, he was cheating, with his mistress living right below me.
