While Sutton is on a business trip, the last thing she expects to discover is that her husband is having an affair, resulting in a pregnancy.
But after Jacob moves out, and the months go by, Sutton plans her revenge.
It was a year ago when life as I knew it changed dramatically. I was on a business trip, trying to secure a deal that would help us get through our son’s medical bills.
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My three-year-old, Danny, had been ill at the time, going in and out of the hospital, and every moment away from him felt like torture. I mean, when your child needed you, he needed you.
But I never anticipated that the real torture was happening at home.
Jacob, my husband of eight years, had cheated on me with his colleague, Jessie.
At first, neither of them said anything, especially when Jessie used to come over and work with Jacob at the dining table until the early hours.
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“I can’t help it, Sutton,” Jacob said. “Work is work.”
But then I found out in the worst possible way. I saw Jessie at a supermarket.
She called out to me, flaunting her pregnancy.
“Congratulations, Jess!” I said, pointing to her belly.
“Thanks! Jacob got me pregnant,” she announced with an unsettling calmness.
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My heart broke into a million pieces, just like the bottle of gherkins that slipped through my hands.
Jacob didn’t even try to deny it. He packed his things immediately.
“I don’t regret anything,” he said.
“I am fed up, both with you and this little burden of a child. He is always sick!”
And then he walked out of our lives. The last glimpse I had of him was him slamming the door.
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“Good riddance,” I said to myself, but I was unable to keep my tears in.
I had never felt so blindsided in my entire life.
For months, I was lost in a haze of grief and anger.
I couldn’t understand any of this. I couldn’t understand what I had done so wrong for Jacob to find solace in another woman.
How could he do this to Danny and me?
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But then, I found something that Jacob had left behind. It was a keychain from his grandfather that was usually attached to him.
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