Eileen is ready to have children with her husband, James. But after she starts paying closer attention to him, she begins to notice late-night phone calls and different smells that cling to him. What is going on?
I’m 33, and I’ve been married to my husband, James, 39, for a few years now. Initially, we both decided that children would be in our future — we wanted to move into a house, a big difference from our little apartment, and we wanted to be financially stable.
Which is exactly what we are now.
I’m an Editor at a wildly successful magazine, and James is in cyber security — heading his own team at a large corporate company.
So, now that I’m ready to have a baby, I’ve been waiting for James to get with the program. But recently, I’ve noticed that James has been acting very strangely. He is always on his phone — answering late-night calls, and a different perfume clings to the air around him.
I was devastated at the thought that James might have been cheating on me.
But if I was going to start a family with this man, I needed to know the truth. I decided to hire a private investigator.
“Listen, Alexis,” Benson, the investigator, told me when we met over coffee.
“More often than not, you’re going to find your husband doing exactly what you think he is. So, you need to be prepared for the worst.”
I nodded. I knew what I was getting into, and I knew that at the end of the investigation, my marriage could potentially be over. The thought alone unraveled everything I knew about my life, but I needed to know.
Benson promised he would do what was necessary, and I returned to work — ready to put together the final articles for the magazine’s deadline.
Then, things took a turn.
I met with Benson at the end of the week — he had promised to have enough information for me.
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