All Chapters of The Wife He Finally Lost: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

"You can stop waiting, Victoria. Alexander isn’t coming home tonight.”The message glowed on my phone while seven candles burned on the anniversary cake. I read it twice, although the words did not change, then looked at the dinner I had spent four hours preparing. Alexander Sterling’s favourite roast, the potatoes he liked crisp at the edges, and the expensive red wine he had once said tasted like our honeymoon. Everything was ready for a husband who had forgotten he was married.Tonight marked seven years since Alexander had promised to love me in front of hundreds of people. Ten years since he had first chased me through rain outside a university library, insisting that one day I would wear his ring. I used to believe that kind of love could survive anything. Six months ago, I began to suspect that it could not even survive a pretty secretary.The first warning had been a lipstick mark on his shirt collar. A bright red shade I never wore. Alexander had laughed when I asked about i

“Take your hand off my wife.”Alexander’s voice carried across the reception hall, sharp enough to silence the nearest guests. The stranger beside me did not move. He simply looked at Alexander as though the interruption bored him.“Your wife appeared to need help,” he replied. “I was offering it.”“I can handle my wife.”“Then perhaps you should have noticed someone humiliating her before a stranger did.”A few people lowered their glasses to hide their reactions. Alexander’s face hardened, and I almost admired the stranger for saying what I had wanted to say for months.Madison quickly stepped backward. “I was only joking. Victoria is being sensitive.”The stranger looked at the wine dripping from my sleeve. “That is an unusual definition of a joke.”He turned toward me. “Would you like to leave?”I hesitated. I had spent the entire evening pretending that Alexander’s behaviour did not hurt. I was suddenly tired of pretending.“Yes, thank you.”Alexander caught my arm. “You are not

“You will apologize to Chloe before you leave this office.”Alexander stood beside my desk, speaking as though he were issuing instructions to an employee. Chloe sat behind him, dabbing at her eyes with a tissue, while Eleanor watched me with open impatience.I looked at the ruined designs. “Did you ask her what happened?”“I can see that she is upset.”“That was not my question.”Alexander’s jaw tightened. “Victoria, stop making everything difficult.”I reached for the security tablet on my desk. The office cameras recorded the entire design floor, including the coffee incident. I had already asked the building manager to preserve the footage.“Then let us watch what happened.”I connected the tablet to the office screen. The recording showed Chloe approaching my desk, glancing toward the door, and deliberately tipping her cup across the drawings. It also showed her stepping back before the coffee touched her dress.The room became silent.Chloe’s face drained of colour. “The angle i