All Chapters of The Affair Revenge My Bestfriend's Husband Offered Me: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

140 Chapters

Chapter 1 Cause His 'Her' is Back

My fifth wedding anniversary was the day I learned my husband had never stopped loving her. The realization didn't come all at once. It came in pieces—a wrong number that wasn't wrong, a late night at the office that wasn't work, a name that slipped out when he thought I was asleep. Jovi. I'd spent five years pretending that name didn't live between us. Five years being the good wife. The understanding one. The one who waited while he mourned her, married me, and never quite arrived. It was seven years ago the first time I met her husband too. The one she left Zane for. Vance Blackwood. I stood beside her at their wedding, watched her marry a man who looked at her like she was a transaction, not a person. I thought she was lucky—rich, secure, settled. I didn't know then that lucky could feel like drowning. This morning, I'd passed him in the lobby of Astera Spire. New transfer to my department. New boss. He nodded once. I nodded back. Professional. Distant. Two people connected o

Chapter 2 The Wronged Husband

My thumb hovered over send. This would burn everything down. Their marriages, their reputations. One tap, and I wouldn't be the only one sitting in the ashes. But then I saw Zane at sixteen, sharing his lunch with the quiet, awkward girl everyone ignored. I saw Jovi at eighteen, squeezing my hand and telling me I could borrow any of her clothes, her friendship a gift I never felt I deserved. They were betrayers. They were also pieces of my only history. I deleted the message. I threw my phone onto the passenger seat, furious with myself. I had the perfect revenge in my hands, and I couldn't do it. I was still, after everything, the girl who loved them too much. I drove for another hour. Ended up at a bar I'd never seen before, in a part of the city I didn't know. Gin. Straight. The bartender didn't ask questions. My phone lit up. Jovi: Neri please. It was a MISTAKE. A moment of weakness. We can talk. Zane: Baby please. Where are you? I'm freaking out. Let me explain. I flipped

Chapter 3 The Collision

"Jovienne."Just her name. It hung there like a verdict.He took one step forward. "There you are."Jovi shrank. The confident, radiant woman I'd known since childhood seemed to disappear into herself. She looked from Vance's impassive face to mine, her eyes wide with a panic I'd never seen. This wasn't a drama she could control. She was looking at two facts she couldn't spin: her husband and her best friend, the wife of her lover emerging from a hotel room together at dawn."Vance," she whispered. Her voice broke.Zane found his voice first. A raw, protective anger tore out of him. He stepped slightly in front of Jovi—a gesture so ingrained, so automatic, it hit me like a physical blow.That had always been his position. Her shield.I'd always been the one standing beside him. Not behind him."What the hell is this, Nerissa?" His gaze burned into me, ignoring Vance entirely.Vance answered. Quiet. Calm. Deadly."The question, Mr. Sullivan, is what this is." His cold gaze swept the inc

Chapter 4 Give Us A Minute

The car was silent. The smell of Jovi's perfume—that light, floral scent that was just her—still hung in the air. He started the engine, the sound too loud.A block passed. Then another."So... he's your new boss?" Zane asked, grasping for something normal."Yes."Another block. The tension grew tighter."Nerissa, I'm so sorry." The words burst out of him. "This is all my fault. All of it. Please... don't blame Jovi. She's fragile. She was scared of him. You saw how he is."A sound left me—not a laugh, but a puff of pure disbelief. "It always comes back to her, doesn't it? How fragile she is. What she needs. What she's afraid of.""She was our friend first," he said, as if that made the betrayal okay."Was that the reason?" My voice was low and quiet. "Friendship? When you were with her in our bed, was it out of loyalty?"He winced, gripping the wheel. "That's a cruel thing to say.""Cruel?" I turned to face him. "I was here when she left you for someone with more money. I was here to

Chapter 5 Well Done

All talking stopped when I walked in. Everyone looked at me—a woman in yesterday's wrinkled clothes with smudged makeup, walking into their space. I could see them writing me off before I even spoke."Gentlemen," Vance said, his voice cutting the silence. "This is Nerissa Sullivan, my lead data strategist. She runs our European analytics. She will explain what the Zenith proposal is missing."He didn't call me a data analyst. He made up a better title on the spot, giving me authority I didn't officially have. It was support. And a challenge.Harrington's bushy eyebrows went up. "We're short on time, Blackwood. We've seen the cost projections. They're too high."I didn't wait for Vance. I walked to the front, plugged in my laptop, and showed my first slide. One simple graph."The projections you saw use North American models," I said, my voice clear and firm in the big room. It didn't even sound like me. "They assume a forty percent improvement. They're wrong."A man with glasses made a

Chapter 6 The Proposal

He wasn't just talking about the merger."What do you want from me?" I asked, my voice quiet.He turned all the way around."I want us to work together. As a team."The words hung in the cool, quiet air. Not an affair. A partnership."They think their pain is special. Romantic." His voice was low and exact. "They're addicted to a story. He's addicted to trying to save her. She's addicted to needing to be saved. They feed each other's idea of a tragic, impossible love. We're the casualties. The stable, boring partners who don't 'understand'."Every word cut right to the heart of my marriage, and it was terrifyingly accurate."I suggest we change the story." He took one step toward me. "We cover for each other. And we prove a point.""Prove what?""That life goes on. And does it well." He held my gaze."You will be seen as the capable professional I promoted because you earned it. I will be seen as the CEO who spots and rewards skill. Together, we'll look strong and forward-moving. Their

Chapter 7 The First Step

The Lexington Club was everything I expected—quiet, expensive, and full of people who made a hobby of noticing things. I saw Vance the moment I walked in. He was standing near the maître d' station, checking his phone. He looked up as I approached. And he stopped. For one second—one single, unguarded moment—his professional mask completely fell away. His eyes widened just slightly. They traveled from the sharp line of my black dress to my face, which I'd done differently tonight—bolder makeup, my hair down and smooth. His lips parted as if he'd been about to say something, but no words came. He looked... struck. It lasted only a heartbeat. Then his expression smoothed over, the mask sliding perfectly back into place. But in that brief crack, I saw it: he hadn't expected this. He hadn't expected me—not like this. Not as someone who could walk into a room and command it without saying a word. He recovered quickly, giving a single, firm nod. "You understand the assignment," he said

Chapter 8 Too Late to Understand

As we stood to leave, he helped me with my chair. His hand touched my back briefly—for show, but his fingers lingered a moment longer than necessary. We walked out together, visible to everyone in the dining room.Outside, his car waited. He opened the door for me, and as I moved to get in, he spoke quietly."You surprised me tonight."I paused, looking back at him."Good."A faint, almost imperceptible smile touched his lips."Yes. It is." He looked past me, at the glittering facade of the club, and the smile vanished. "These performances are necessary. But exhausting. Remember that. The energy it takes to hold a face for the world is energy diverted from actually building something."He gave me a curt nod."Tomorrow will be interesting," he said, louder now, for the valet's ears."I'll be ready," I replied, sliding into the car.The door closed, and I was alone with the hum of the engine and the memory of two things: his stunned face when he first saw me, and the real laugh we'd shar

Chapter 9 The Promotion

My inbox exploded within minutes. Congratulations from people who'd never spoken to me. Questions from colleagues. A calendar invite from HR for a "transition meeting."At 9:15, my phone buzzed. Not a call. A text.Zane: I heard you're getting promoted. We need to talk. Call me.I stared at the message. A cold trickle of understanding dripped down my spine.I heard.The announcement was 15 minutes old. It was internal. For Astera employees only.Zane didn't work here. He had no friends here. He wouldn't be on any industry mailing lists that would get this news this fast.There was only one person who would have seen this email immediately and had a reason to run to tell him. One person with a vested, panicked interest in making him question my sudden rise.Jovi.She had eyes here. Someone was feeding her information. An assistant? A friend in HR? The realization turned the office air colder. My promotion wasn't just a career move; it was a move in a game where my opponent had spies in

Chapter 10 Crossing The Boundaries

I sat in the new chair. It was too big. The office was too quiet. Outside my window, the city spread out like a promise and a threat.My phone buzzed again.Zane: Why would Blackwood promote you NOW? What did you do to get this?The suspicion had curdled into a direct accusation, just as Jovi had intended. I could almost see her, feeding his fears, painting a picture of a transactional, sordid arrangement.I wrote back, my fingers steady.Me: My work earned it. Something you'd know if you'd ever paid attention. And tell Jovi her spy network is getting sloppy. The news took a whole 15 minutes to reach you.I put the phone away. I didn't wait for his reply, or for the panic that message would surely cause in both of them.I looked around the empty office. It was mine. I had earned it. It was also a new front in a war I hadn't known was being fought on so many levels.And somewhere in this building, a woman who had been my best friend was watching me through someone else's eyes, trying to

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