Semua Bab My Wife's Lover Called Into My Livestream: Bab 1 - Bab 8

"What if I can make it official? What if I make you my husband? Everything you want, Julian. I'll give you all of it."I closed my eyes. There was nothing left inside me but grief.In the silence, Julian slowly let go of the arm he'd been using to steady me.He lowered his head."Okay. Three more days. If you haven't done it by then, you let me go."After Vivian left with him, I bent to retrieve my phone.More than a hundred thousand people were watching.The chat was full of the same demand."Show us the diary!"I looked where the phone had fallen. A journal had slipped out beside Julian's pile of luggage — a journal about their relationship.I opened it for the viewers.With every page, I felt the blood drain farther from my face.March 18, 2018"We've been together for three years. Today she married someone else."She says he's just part of a business deal between their families. I'm the only one she loves. We spent the night together, crying and clinging to each other

I hung up before she could finish.Pressing my cheek against Dad's urn, I whispered the same words over and over."I don't need it anymore. Your money. Your love. None of it."I'm taking you home, Dad. To our home."Numb, I carried his ashes back to the house I'd shared with Vivian for seven years.There was nothing left there for me.I wanted to take Dad back to the town where he and Mom had raised me. Warren and Diane Hayes had bought that house together. He belonged next to her.I tore up all eighty-one love letters I'd written Vivian, from childhood onward. I smashed our wedding portrait. I broke apart the furniture we'd chosen together, tore down the decorations we'd hung, and destroyed every gift she'd ever given me.Then I gathered my essential documents. Apart from Dad's ashes, they were all I took.I was heading out to catch the earliest flight when the hospital called."Mr. Hayes, we found something of your father's in his room."It was a flash drive.There was on

When Dr. Reyes heard what had happened, he agreed to keep the news from her.With his help, I cut every possible tie between Vivian and the child.My baby would have me. That was all we needed. I wanted a child who belonged completely to me.When the clinic confirmed that the embryo was healthy and developing normally, I finally began to breathe again.I settled in a quiet town where life moved slowly.My parents and I had lived there once. So had my grandparents, before they died.Their old house was still standing. I cleaned it up and moved in.I needed to earn something, so I took a job at a flower shop nearby.The owner was a young woman named Lily Morgan.She wasn't nosy. When she learned I was going to be a single father, she didn't press for details. She simply went out of her way to look after me.Life began to settle into a rhythm.To my surprise, I had a knack for arranging flowers. Customers noticed. Business picked up.As Lily and I grew closer, I started to tru

"For years, I thought Julian was the only person I loved. I don't know when it happened, but you became part of everything.""I didn't understand until you left. It feels like something's been torn out of me.""I love you, Nolan. I can't let you go. I don't know how."There were more. Always more.I never answered a single one.When I ignored her calls, Vivian stood outside my yard in the pouring rain all night.I opened the door for work the next morning and startled at the sight of her, soaked through.She hurried toward me and reached out. Then she looked down at her wet clothes and drew her hand back, as if getting me damp were something unforgivable.Her eyes were bloodshot. Her voice scraped."Nolan. I'm sorry."When I helped Julian cover up the hit-and-run, I didn't know the woman he'd killed was your mother."She swallowed."I didn't know he'd done that to your father, either."Please forgive me. Hit me or curse at me. Whatever you need. Just come back. I know I wa