All Chapters of The Wife He Betrayed: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

At 2:17 in the morning, Patricia woke up.She did not know what had disturbed her.For a few seconds, she lay still beneath the covers, listening to the silence inside the house.Then she reached across the bed.Her hand landed on cold sheets.Patricia opened her eyes.Alex was gone.She turned toward the other side of the bed.His pillow was slightly indented, but the warmth had disappeared from it.She sat up."Alex?"Nothing.She looked toward the bathroom.The door was open.The light was off.Patricia picked up her phone.No message.She stared at the time.2:17 a.m.Again.It was becoming a pattern.She couldn't remember exactly when it had started, but there had been several nights when she woke up and found Alex missing.Sometimes he returned before she woke again.Sometimes she heard the front door just before dawn.Whenever she asked, his answer was always the same."Something came up."At first, Patricia had accepted it.Their lives had become complicated.There were invest

The morning came quietly, but Patricia had hardly slept.She remained beside the window long after the first light had entered the room, watching the compound gradually come alive.A guard opened the main gate.A vehicle passed outside.Somewhere in the neighbourhood, a radio came on.Ordinary sounds.She envied them.Her life had stopped being ordinary the moment Obadiah's DNA test had revealed what she had never imagined possible.She had gone from being a woman trying to understand her family to becoming the centre of a mystery involving a missing father she had never known, a mother whose past was filled with unanswered questions, and a company that had somehow been waiting for her.And now there was Glen.Her son.The thought of him remained with her even when she tried to push it away.She turned from the window.Alex was still asleep.For a moment she watched him.He looked exhausted.She wondered how many nights he had spent investigating Glen without telling her.She also won

Patricia stood beside the wardrobe with her phone in her hand.You found the photograph.She read the message again.Then the second one.Now open the notebook.Her eyes moved slowly toward the handbag hanging from the chair.The notebook was there.She had taken it from Daniel's locked drawer that afternoon, intending to examine it later.She had not told Agnes.She had not told Bethwel.And she certainly had not told Alex.Yet somebody knew.Patricia's fingers tightened around the phone."Who are you?" she whispered.There was no response.She waited.Nothing.She placed the phone on the bed and opened her handbag.The small notebook looked ordinary.Its brown cover had become worn with age, and several of its pages were slightly curled.Patricia turned it over.There was nothing written on the cover.She opened it.The first pages contained Daniel's handwriting.Names.Dates.Telephone numbers.Meeting notes.Business figures.Then, halfway through the notebook, the writing changed

Alex remained motionless beside the tunnel.The piece of paper felt strangely light between his fingers.Yet the sentence written on it seemed heavier than anything he had carried all night.You are looking for Glen in the wrong place.He read it again.There was no signature.No threat.No explanation.Only nine words.Someone knew what he was doing.More importantly, someone knew what he was looking for.Alex looked toward the mouth of the tunnel.The security camera remained fixed on the same angle.A blind spot.He suddenly understood why.It wasn't necessarily meant to hide someone entering the tunnel.It could have been meant to hide someone leaving it.He stepped backward.His phone vibrated.Bethwel.Alex answered."Tell me."Bethwel's voice was low."The name I mentioned.""Yes.""I've been checking further.""And?""It doesn't appear only in Daniel's file."Alex became still."Where else?""Property records. An old company transaction. And one other document.""What document

The vehicle moved through the darkness without its headlights for several seconds.Alex noticed the mistake immediately."Why are the lights off?"Patricia looked at him."What?"He switched them back on."Nothing."But his eyes remained on the road behind them.They had barely left the compound, yet Alex had already checked the mirrors three times.Patricia noticed."Someone is following us?""I don't know.""You just said nothing.""I don't want to alarm you unnecessarily."She gave him a sharp look."After everything we've discovered, I think we're past unnecessary alarm."Alex almost smiled."Fair enough."He took a different road.Then another.Patricia watched him carefully."Where are we going?""Back to the quarry.""Because of the symbol?""Yes."She held her handbag tightly."Do you think Glen was there?""I think somebody wanted us to believe he was."Patricia frowned."That's different.""Very."The silence that followed was heavy.Neither wanted to say what they were thin