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All Chapters of How I Catfished my Husband and his Girlfriend: Chapter 221 - Chapter 230

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Chapter 223

Sophia sat at the kitchen table surrounded by open bags, paperwork, and half-finished lists.The house felt split in two.Upstairs—children packing stuffed animals and pajamas.Downstairs—adults trying to contain something that had gone too far.Sophia stared at her phone in silence.No tears.No panic anymore.Just exhaustion.Deep exhaustion.“I’m done with this,” she said quietly.Not to anyone specifically.Just… out loud.Patrick looked up from installing camera notifications on his laptop.Dominic stopped pacing immediately.Sophia leaned back slowly in the chair, rubbing her temples.“I’m done reacting to her. I’m done changing our lives around someone who refuses to stop.”And for the first time—there was no fear in her voice.Only resolve.Her phone rang.Pasquale.The second she saw his name, the energy in the room shifted.Even Patrick straightened slightly.Sophia answered immediately.“Hey.”Pasquale’s voice came through calm and direct.“I’m already on the road.”Soph

Chapter 224

The house settled into a strange kind of quiet after the call.Not peaceful.But organized.Directed.Patrick finished adjusting the last camera angle on his laptop.Dominic was outside double-checking locks and motion lights for the third time.Upstairs, the kids were finally slowing down, their excitement fading into exhaustion.Sophia sat alone at the kitchen table for a moment.Phone in front of her.Messages still waiting unread.She looked at the screen.Then flipped it over.Done giving it power.Patrick walked back into the kitchen and stopped when he saw her expression.“You alright?”Sophia let out a tired laugh.“No,” she answered honestly.Then after a pause—“But I’m clearer.”Patrick pulled out the chair beside her and sat down.“You’ve been holding everybody together.”Sophia looked toward the stairs.“I have to.”Patrick’s expression softened slightly.“You don’t always have to do it alone.”That almost cracked something in her again.Almost.Before she could answer—t

Chpater 225

Patrick’s grip tightened slightly around the phone as Dominic stared at the image.Streetlight glow.Dark hoodie.Standing just outside the range of the motion lights.Watching the house.Dominic’s face drained instantly.“She’s outside now?”Patrick nodded once.“Camera picked her up near the corner about two minutes ago.”Dominic moved immediately toward the front window.Patrick stopped him fast.“Don’t.”Dominic looked at him sharply.“She’s outside my house.”“And she wants you to react,” Patrick replied calmly.“That’s the point.”The room tightened again instantly.The feeling of safety upstairs suddenly fragile.Temporary.Patrick zoomed in on the image.Kristi wasn’t moving.Just standing there.Watching.Another notification buzzed.Motion detected.Same camera.“She’s still there,” Patrick muttered.Dominic ran both hands over his face hard.“This is insane.”“No,” Patrick said quietly.“This is escalation.”Upstairs, the kids laughed softly about something before settling

Chapter 226

The house stayed tense long after the headlights disappeared.Nobody trusted the quiet anymore.Not after tonight.Patrick kept monitoring the cameras from the kitchen table while Dominic stood near the living room window, forcing himself not to look outside every thirty seconds.Sophia stayed in the middle of it all.Calm.Focused.But exhausted down to her bones.Another motion alert flashed across Patrick’s screen.Everyone looked immediately.Empty street.No visible car this time.“She’s parking farther down now,” Patrick said quietly.Dominic let out a sharp breath.“She’s literally hunting us.”Sophia looked toward the stairs instinctively.Toward the sleeping kids.“No,” she said quietly.“She’s trying to intimidate us.”Patrick nodded once.“And she’s escalating because she knows tomorrow changes everything.”That hung in the room.Because tomorrow did change everything.The mayor.The EMS Chief.Official attention.Questions she wouldn’t be able to manipulate away.Dominic f

Chapter 227

Sophia stayed quiet for a moment after Pasquale said it.Let me carry this part now.Those words hit harder than anything else had tonight.Because she hadn’t realized how badly she needed to hear them.The kitchen around her blurred for just a second.Patrick quietly turned back toward the cameras, giving her space.Dominic stayed seated, watching her carefully but not interrupting.Sophia finally spoke softly into the phone.“I don’t know how this got this bad.”Pasquale answered immediately.“Because you kept trying to handle it peacefully.”Sophia let out a shaky breath.“She followed the kids today.”Saying it out loud again made it feel even more real.“I know,” Pasquale replied quietly.“And tomorrow, everybody else is going to know too.”Sophia leaned against the counter slightly, exhaustion finally catching up to her.“She keeps texting like she knows everything we’re doing.”Pasquale’s voice hardened again.“That’s because she’s spiraling. She’s trying to maintain psychologi

Chapter 228

Dominic watched Sophia sitting at the kitchen table, shoulders tight, eyes exhausted, phone still buzzing every few minutes like the night refused to let her breathe.For the first time all day—she looked overwhelmed.Not focused.Not strategic.Just tired.Patrick stayed crouched beside her for another second before finally standing.“She needs rest,” he said quietly.Dominic nodded slowly.Then moved toward Sophia without hesitation.He gently took the phone from her hands and muted it completely before setting it face down on the counter.“No more tonight.”Sophia looked up at him, exhaustion written all over her face.“I can’t shut my brain off.”Dominic reached down and took her hand carefully.Not forceful.Grounding.“Come on,” he said softly.“Let’s try to sleep.”Sophia looked toward the windows instinctively.Then toward the stairs.Then toward Patrick.Patrick gave her a small nod.“I’ve got downstairs.”Dominic squeezed her hand lightly.“Come on,” he repeated quietly.“L

Chapter 229

Downstairs, the glow from Patrick’s laptop reflected across the dark kitchen as he watched the street cameras again.The same vehicle.Same slow pass.Same deliberate pacing.Patrick leaned back in the chair, jaw tightening.“She’s not even trying to hide it anymore,” he muttered quietly to himself.The house stayed still around him.Kids asleep upstairs.Sophia finally lying down for the first time all night.Dominic beside her.And outside—Kristi circling like she couldn’t let the night end.Patrick grabbed his phone and took another screenshot for the file.Time-stamped.Documented.Pattern established.Then another notification appeared.Motion detected — side street camera.Patrick opened it immediately.The car had stopped farther down the block this time.Lights off.Parked.Patrick’s entire expression changed.Upstairs, Dominic was still awake beside Sophia.He could feel it in her breathing.Too shallow.Too alert.“You still thinking?” he asked quietly.Sophia laughed softl

Chapter 230

A firm knock echoed through the house.Not aggressive.Official.Patrick moved first, checking the front camera one more time before unlocking the door.A uniformed officer stood outside beneath the porch light, another patrol car idling farther down the street.“Evening,” the officer said calmly. “Who made the call?”“I did,” Patrick answered, stepping aside slightly.The officer entered carefully, immediately noticing the tension inside the house.The packed bags near the stairs.The exhausted faces.The laptop open to security footage.“This is Sophia,” Patrick said quietly.The officer nodded politely toward her.“Ma’am.”Sophia stepped forward slowly, arms crossed tightly against herself.“She was here again,” she said quietly.The officer’s expression stayed professional.“Kristi?”Sophia blinked slightly.“You know her name?”The officer exchanged a brief glance with his partner outside before answering carefully.“We’ve had prior calls tonight involving the same individual.”T

Chapter 231

The silence after the police left felt unfamiliar.Not peaceful.But temporarily stable.Patrick checked the cameras again from the kitchen table.Empty street.No headlights.No movement near the driveway.“She’s gone for now,” he said quietly.Sophia stood near the staircase, staring at nothing for a moment too long.The adrenaline crash was finally starting to hit her.Dominic noticed immediately.“You need to sit down.”Sophia shook her head faintly.“If I sit down, I’m not getting back up.”Patrick gave a tired half-smile.“Honestly? That’s fair.”For the first time all night, a tiny crack of normal human energy slipped back into the room.Brief.Fragile.But there.Dominic walked slowly toward Sophia again.This time softer.No frustration.No panic.Just concern.“You haven’t stopped moving since this morning,” he said quietly.Sophia rubbed both hands over her face.“I feel like if I stop paying attention something bad happens.”That honesty hit hard.Because everybody in the

Chapter 232

Just after dawn, headlights finally turned slowly into the driveway.Different this time.Not circling.Not lurking.Arriving.Patrick was already standing before the vehicle fully stopped.Dominic moved toward the window automatically.Sophia froze in the middle of the kitchen.Because she knew that SUV immediately.Pasquale.The second the engine shut off, something inside Sophia finally gave way.Not panic.Not fear.Relief.Patrick unlocked the front door before Pasquale even reached it.The cold morning air swept into the house as the door opened.Pasquale stepped inside first.Calm.Sharp.Composed.But the second his eyes landed on Sophia—all of that hardened control shifted.“Sophia.”She didn’t walk to him.She practically ran.Straight into her father’s arms.And the moment he wrapped his arms around her—the exhaustion she’d been holding back for days finally cracked open.Pasquale held her tightly against him without saying anything at first.One hand against the back of

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