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After my wife's 44th affair, my father was hit in a car accident. When I found the perpetrator, my wife emerged disheveled from the passenger seat.
I stayed by my father's side at the hospital, while she accompanied the perpetrator at the police station during questioning.
When I refused to settle, she grabbed her thermos and smashed it violently against my head.
"He's a lawyer. Do you want to ruin his entire career? What's wrong with you?"
I calmly wiped the blood from my head, watching her panicked face as realization dawned.
This wasn't her first affair, but it was the most serious one.
My mind flashed back to our fifth year of marriage, when she grinned at me and said:
"Don't you get bored sleeping with just one person for the rest of your life? To be fair, I won't care what you do either."
"I give them sex, but I give you love."
Later, I did as she wished and got together with the girl she herself had introduced to me.
Yet she ended up on her knees begging me to come home.

After the Wife's 44th Affair

"Shut your mouth! Who do you think you are? What gives you the right to lecture me? Don't forget, without me, you'd never have made it into my husband's bed!"


I shielded Candace behind me, looking at Genevieve with utter disgust in my eyes. "You're right about that. I should thank you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have met Candace."


"Genevieve, it's over between us. You've already signed the divorce papers. If you don't believe me, go ask your forty-fourth lover. He'll tell you the truth."


When Genevieve saw the signed divorce papers, she was instantly enraged. She remembered the circumstances under which she had signed that document.


She rushed to the ground floor of my building, screaming, "I won't agree to a divorce! Draven, you can only be my husband. I won't let you fall in love with another woman!"


I ignored her fury and called the security guards to remove her from the premises.


From the very beginning, I knew Genevieve wouldn't let go so easily.


Chapter 10