Total pages in book: 52
Estimated words: 47419 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 237(@200wpm)___ 190(@250wpm)___ 158(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 47419 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 237(@200wpm)___ 190(@250wpm)___ 158(@300wpm)
She’d gone on with her life as if we never existed. No wonder she was so graceful after the affair came to light. No doubt a bitch like her had always had Jacob waiting in the wings as her backup plan.
I’d sent him that message right after the wedding when I was too pissed to breathe, but he’d blocked me without answering. Now, I have to way of getting to them or the kids.
I feel like I’m on a runaway train that is headed for a cliff at full speed. Nothing has turned out the way I expected. I’ve known people on second marriages who had done well for themselves even after having affairs. Unless those people were putting up a front, I had made a misstep somewhere.
Doug was a high earner when we met; now we’re living off of my income, which was less than half what his was or used to be, I should say, since the bum isn’t working.
All he does is sit and drink all day, and I’m too ashamed to say or do anything because all my friends think that I’m living this great life since I bagged him. Things would’ve been good, too, if I had kept the upper hand.
But now he has something on me that could put me away for a very long time, not to mention the fact that he’s holding onto my passport, my ID, and my birth certificate along with my social security card. The bastard had pretended to need them to get a marriage license.
I was surprised days later when he did, in fact, produce one, and we went down to the courthouse to get married. Instead of a honeymoon we’d gone back to the house where he’d made me open a joint account and transfer all of my money into it.
I feel trapped, alone and isolated. He wouldn’t let me see my friends, and I couldn’t talk to anyone for more than five minutes at certain times of the night. He monitors my phone even when I’m at work, so there’s no escaping him. Even my texts are read by him, and if one of my friends says something he doesn’t like, he goes ahead and blocks them.
My family had turned their backs on me long ago, ever since the affair, in fact, so there was no help from that quarter, and none of his friends or family would give me the time of day.
There was a time when I wanted him all to myself when I’d gone out of my way to make it happen. Now, I can’t even stand to be in the same room as him.
JACOB
Those two are on the fast track to hell. It couldn’t have happened to better people. I guess I’m supposed to feel bad for the hag he left his wife and kids for, but I don’t. She knew what she was doing, so anything she gets at his hands is on her, and I make no apologies for my thoughts.
They’d both hurt my wife, and though their stupidity is what made it possible for me to have her, I won’t forgive them for that shit. I’m just sitting back and watching them slowly implode their stupid lives.
I knew all these years that the only reason he never dared lay hands on Rachel was because I had warned him once over drinks that if he ever did, they’d never find his body. Back then, I’d only known of one instance where he had hit an old girlfriend, but he had convinced me and others that it was a drunken mistake.
It was only after running into that same girl sometime later that I learned the truth, and from then on, I’d had this hole in my gut just waiting for the day he did some shit like that to her. Thankfully, it never came, but now he’s trying to find new ways to hurt her and us.
I had my lawyer send him a cease and desist when he started spouting lies about us having an affair, but our friends and those who count didn’t believe him for a second. Not that I cared what anyone thought of me, but I didn’t want that shit hanging over my wife’s head.
I have them both blocked everywhere and had changed her number just in case. As it stands, we have sole custody of the kids thanks to Doug’s behavior in court and won’t have to revisit that mess for another year.
Our families, including his, have free access to the kids and have been doing pretty good at keeping them away from him. He has no way of knowing when the kids are at his parent’s home because they had pretty much banned him after his latest stunt.
There were whispers and rumors all around town about him beating up on the side piece, but no one knew for sure since the two of them had become reclusive.