Husband Beats His Pregnant Wife to Please His Lover—Then Her Three CEO Brothers Burst In Before He Can Strike Again
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Chapter 12 / 27
Chapter 12 - The affair becomes undeniable
Until that evening, Ryan had admitted:
“Emotional boundaries were crossed.”
That ridiculous phrase.
He denied a physical affair.
Melissa denied one too.
Then during the argument, she said:
“We have too much at stake to let her ruin this.”
We.
I looked at Ryan.
“You and Melissa?”
Melissa realized what she had said.
Too late.
Later, phone extraction and civil discovery confirmed:
Hotels.
Messages.
Deleted photographs.
Seven-month affair.
Was adultery the crime?
No.
It mattered to my marriage.
Not the criminal case.
Its importance to the transaction was different.
Ryan had given his secret romantic partner a potentially enormous financial option while asking me to approve a sale benefiting both of them.
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That was a conflict.
A serious one.
