I went to the airport to see a friend off, and I was shocked to see my husband hugging his mistress in the departure lounge. I walked closer to them and overheard everything. Ice ready.
That fool. Ice going to lose everything. I just smiled because the noise at John F.
Kennedy International Airport was like a disturbed beehive. Emily Hayes stood by the terminal’s glass wall, watching her best friend Ashley slowly disappear into the boarding line. The flight to Miami was half an hour late, but Ashley had insisted that Emily not wait for her.
“Go home to Noah,” she told her as she hugged her friend goodbye, telling her they would see each other in a week. Emily was in no hurry to leave. For the past few months, her house no longer felt like a home.
Ethan always came home late from the law firm, claiming he had urgent cases to finish. And when he was home, his mind seemed to be elsewhere. He was always lost in thought, and even the news of her pregnancy hadn’t sparked the joy Emily had expected from him.
Maybe he is just stressed from work, she thought as she caressed her belly, still barely noticeable. At her age, being a family physician, she was used to analyzing symptoms. But when it came to her relationship with her husband, her professional intuitions seemed to vanish.
She decided to buy a bottle of water before heading home. So she walked over to a coffee shop in the waiting area, and there her world fell apart. In a corner, almost hidden by a pillar, sat Ethan—her husband—who the night before had told her he had a business trip to Chicago the next day.
He was embracing a young blonde woman in a flashy pink suit. The woman clung to him like two teenagers in love, not like mere colleagues. Emily felt the floor sink beneath her feet.
Her pulse quickened. Her mouth went dry. She quickly stepped back behind the nearest pillar, hoping she had not been seen.
Ethan was saying something to the woman as he caressed her hand. The woman laughed, tilting her head slightly. It was Pamela.
Emily suddenly realized the paralegal from her husband’s office. The same 25-year-old woman Ethan often mentioned in his conversations. Pamela had a great idea to streamline the flow of documents.
Pamela is brilliant. Pamela stays late to work overtime. Now it was clear what they were streamlining after work.
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