All Chapters of THE HUSBAND WHO ERASED ME: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Our daughter, Lily, was fast asleep in her nursery, and I was curled up on the living room sofa, nursing a cup of chamomile tea, while watching my favourite soap opera.My phone vibrated against the cushion, it was a livestream link from an old college friend: Grand Azure Lounge Grand Opening…Rooftop VIP Stream.I tapped the screen absently, expecting to see a crowd of local socialites, the camera panned across the dimly lit rooftop patio, sweeping past glass tables and bottle-service sparklers, then, the lens focused on the VIP glass railing.My tea sloshed over the rim of the mug, burning my knuckles from what I saw next, standing by the railing was a man in a bespoke suit, his hand was resting intimately on the bare waist of a woman wearing a backless crimson silk dress, i didn't need to see his full face to know the slope of those shoulders, i knew the way he leaned in when he laughed, I recognized the custom sterling silver cufflinks flashing under the patio lights..I had bought

"Two days ago?" I echoed, my voice barely a whisper in the empty kitchen. "Sarah, that's impossible, two days ago, Mark was supposedly trapped in a hotel room in Chicago.""Clara, I'm telling you, I was downtown, and I saw him," Sarah said, her voice dropping lower, sounding frantic. "He was getting into a black car outside the Grand Azure Lounge and Clara... he wasn't alone, he was with…"Suddenly, a loud crash echoed through Sarah’s side of the phone, followed by a man's sharp voice calling her name.Sarah gasped. "I have to go, i can't talk right now.""Wait! Sarah, who was he with?" I demanded, gripping the granite counter. "Who did you see?""Meet me at the corner café near my office at noon," Sarah rushed out. "Don't tell Mark we're speaking. Please, Clara."The line went dead.I stood in the kitchen, shocked and confused, The Grand Azure Lounge, the exact same rooftop bar where I had seen the man in the suit on the livestream last night. Mark had sworn he was freezing in Chicag