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1 Returned to Surprise My Husband, Only to See Him Kissing Another Woman
I returned to the country ahead of schedule without telling my husband, Herbert Foster, because I wanted to give him a surprise.
Following the location, I rushed to the pub’s box. However, through the glass window, I saw him passionately kissing another woman in his arms.
All his friends were cheering, and one of them said, “You said you’d be a DINK for your wife, but you still got Stella pregnant. Your wife is so high and mighty and boring. She won’t even give you a kid.”
Herbert frowned and scolded, “Shut up. Don’t make jokes about my wife. When Stella’s baby is born, I’ll find an excuse to let my wife adopt him.”
After lighting a cigarette, he added, “My wife is delicate and can’t have children. If anyone
lets
my wife find out about these things, I won’t let them off the hook.”
Everyone swore they would keep it from me, and I stood outside the door as tears
streamed down my face.
The man who once doted on me and said he couldn’t bear to see me suffer from pregnancy and was willing to be a DINK for me had already had a child with someone else behind my back.
Such being the case, I would never let him find me for the rest of his life.
Chapter 1
I came home in a daze.
I knew that woman. She was Stella Edwards, the new secretary Herbert Foster had hired.
Everything I saw outside that box seemed to be etched in my mind and lingered there for a long time.
Those hurtful words kept echoing in my head and reminded me that Herbert, the man
who I thought loved me with all his heart and soul, had truly betrayed me.
I took out my phone and initiated a video call to Herbert, but he hung up on me in a flash.
Almost immediately, several messages popped up on my screen.
[What’s up, babe? I’m in the middle of a meeting.]
[Sorry, I can’t answer your call right now, babe.]
[Are you missing me? I miss you, too, honey. I’ll wrap up this meeting soon, and we can have a video chat then. Love you.]
If I hadn’t seen him locking lips with another woman with my own eyes, I might have fallen for his sweet–talking lies.
Vsent him a voice message, telling him that I had come home early.
Herbert quickly replied: [Why’d you come home early, honey? I’ll be home right away.]
I didn’t bother replying to him. Instead, I stood in front of the floor–to–ceiling window, gazing out at the night view of Rivrt.
Yesterday, while I was at a fashion show overseas, my assistant, Tiffany Reed, told me that Herbert had specifically told her to buy every single piece of
eye.
cloth that caught my
Tiffany had laid it on thick, trying to speak up for Herbert. “Ms. Brown, Mr. Foster loves
you so much. He wants to bring all the good things in the world to you.”
She was right, in a way. Herbert had loved me.
He loved me so much that even though I saw him kiss another woman with my own eyes, I still doubted if I had seen it wrong.
My mom died of amniotic fluid embolism when she gave birth to me.
My dad raised me until I was eighteen and then committed suicide by cutting his wrists to join my mom in death.
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He left me with hundreds of millions of dollars in inheritance, which made me a prime target for all sorts of people with malicious intentions.
Then, Herbert entered my life.
He was my knight in shining armor, protecting me from all the dangers and harm, creating a safe bubble around me.
He refused to get even a single cent of my money. Instead, he transferred all of his properties under my name.
Everyone said that his love for me bordered on obsession.
He was such a proud and dignified man, yet he’d race back just to catch a glimpse of me even when he was swamped with work and only had half an hour of break time.
I had a deep–seated psychological trauma because of my mom’s death, and I was terrified of having children.
Herbert would hold me close in his arms and plant gentle kisses on me, saying, “It’s probably for the best if we don’t have a baby. I’m scared that once he’s here, he’ll steal all your love away from me, and I’ll be envious. Honey, having you is more than enough for me in this lifetime. You’re the only one I love.”
Herbert’s love had almost suffocated me in a way. Even though I was angry at my dad for leaving me behind, I envied the unwavering love my parents had for each other, a love that was strong enough to make one follow the other into the unknown.
I once thought that, just like my mom, I had married for true love and was the luckiest woman on the planet.
But in the end, it all turned out to be a beautiful dream that shattered into a million
pieces.
