บททั้งหมดของ After the Homewrecker Left: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

I was in a foreign country where I could not speak the language, and I did not have a cent to my name.By the time I walked back to the hotel, it was already 3:00 am, and the staff stopped me in the lobby simply because I could not prove I was a guest.Every call I made went to the same automated voice telling me the number was unavailable. Exhausted, I said, "I really am staying in Room 1809. You can call up to the room and ask."The clerk eyed me with suspicion, dialed Room 1809, and put it on speaker."Hello, Ms. Bellamy. There's a gentleman in the lobby who says he's your husband."Cyrus' cold, hoarse voice came through the line. "Husband?"Then he raised his voice. "Adele, how many husbands do you have? The front desk is calling again because someone down there says he's your husband."Adele took the phone and spoke flatly. "My husband has been with me the whole time. Don't put calls like this through again."I lunged for the phone in a panic, but all I heard was the cold,

My ears rang. I seized Adele's wrist and denied it at once, yelling, "It wasn't me!""It wasn't you?" Cyrus let out a scornful laugh and stepped forward, looking down his nose at me."Other than you, the delivery guy, only Adele and I touched those condoms. If it wasn't you, then who? Adele? Or are you saying I did it myself?"The mocking, provocative look in his eyes made everything click. He had most likely staged the whole thing and put the glue in himself.Even if I knew the truth, what good would it do? Would Adele ever believe me?I fought through the searing pain in my body and gave a self-mocking laugh. "If you want to know who tampered with them, Ms. Bellamy, why not just check the security footage? With the Bellamy family's resources, finding the truth shouldn't be hard. Unless you don't actually want the truth and would rather pin all of this on me."My gaze was cold as I met her eyes, and neither of us looked away.A deathly silence fell over the room. Neither of us

I realized at once that every one of those explicit videos had been made with AI.My bloodshot eyes locked on one spot in the video. The AI-generated man had his most private area exposed, and on it were three small moles in a neat row.The first time Adele had seen those moles, she had remarked offhandedly, "That's quite an unusual arrangement."No one but Adele could have known exactly where those three moles were.She was the one who had ordered these videos to be made. Worse still, she had single-handedly stirred up the entire online backlash. She had done all of it just to placate Cyrus.The moment I realized that, it felt as though my heart had been shoved into the deepest pit of hell. The pain was so sharp that my breath caught in my throat."Why?" I glared at Adele, nearly grinding my teeth. "Why would you fabricate all this to ruin me?"Adele's brow creased slightly. She seemed irritated, and there was a faint trace of disgust in her voice. "Kenneth, that's a question y

Third-Person POV:Adele spent the entire day at the mall with Cyrus and bought watches worth at least as much as a house. The money meant nothing to her, though by the end she was a little worn out from all the shopping.She was leaning against the floor-to-ceiling window, toying with her ring, when a plane passed across the sky. Her chest tightened sharply, and Kenneth Linwood's face suddenly surfaced in her mind.It occurred to her that in nearly seven years of marriage, she had never once gone shopping with him. Rather, it seemed Kenneth had never spent her money on anything luxurious at all.Kenneth had always lived simply. He wore cheap T-shirts and casual pants bought in bulk online, and the few expensive suits he owned were birthday gifts from her.He ate simply too. Whenever she and Matilda were home, he would carefully prepare a whole spread of her favorite dishes. When he was on his own, however, he would just make himself a slice of toast, and adding a fried egg on top

Everything around her went quiet. When Harriet finished, Adele actually laughed, her eyes full of scorn. "Are you joking?"Her gaze landed on Matilda beside her. Oblivious to everything, Matilda was happily building with her Legos.Adele was quick to reassure herself. "Tilly is the apple of Kenneth's eye. How could he possibly give up custody of her? Did Kenneth contact you? What did he promise you to make you go along with a lie this ridiculous?"Harriet's breathing went quiet on the other end of the line. After a long silence, Harriet said only one thing. "I'm not joking."That was when Adele realized something was wrong.She opened the full agreement Harriet had sent over and suddenly remembered that she had signed this divorce agreement herself.It had been a month ago, the night she locked Kenneth out of the house. He had said he would move out, but only if she signed it.At the time, she had thought he was throwing a tantrum. She had believed that even if she signed, Kenne