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A New Life Chapter One: Finding Out.
She came home to find another woman in her bed with her husband.
I came home early to pick up a few things for an afternoon meeting at one of the houses I was showing when I noticed Benjamin’s car in the driveway.
My husband Benjamin was a high-profile prosecution lawyer in our city, hell, most of the state. He had never lost a case, and seeing his car at home so early in the afternoon was not something I had expected.
‘Maybe he’s working from home today,’ I thought to myself as I walked inside.
It didn’t take long for me to figure out what was happening. The smell in the air wasn’t my perfume, and sounds were coming from the upstairs bedroom.
‘Thirty-Seven years,’ I thought to myself as I gained the strength to climb the stairs. I had never cheated on Benjamin, not once, not even flirted with another man.
We had been together since the last year of high school. I had been with him through everything.
Thirty-seven was the number of years we had been married, but we had known each other for two years before that, and now it was all getting thrown away.
I wanted to see who it was that he deemed worthy of throwing such a life away.
