64 SIX YEARS AGO

I took a deep breath calming myself. "Six years ago, when Zachary had a business meeting out of town for two days and one night, he asked me to do whatever I wanted while he was away. He told me that when we were already married, I couldn't do it alone anymore because he would always stick by my side. So when he leaves with Jason and Alex, I first go to the spa, but I meet Winter there. Back then, I don't remember her as well as Dylan." I paused and took a breath again.

"They pretended they were my friends the first time I met them."

"What? And you didn't tell us?" Jason asked, annoyed.

"I'm sorry. I didn't think that they were planning something. I kept it because they said Zachary doesn't want me to be around them."

"Because those two always have a hidden agenda," Zachary commented. I lowered my head in shame for being stupid back then.

"Whenever I eat alone outside the company when Zachary has a lunch meeting, they are there. I'm so stupid not to notice it back then. I thought it w