Housewife Gone Wild

Chapter 37

Chapter 57

The room fell silent the second I spoke. Everyone turned to stare at me like I’d lost my mind. And maybe I had.

What kind of wife claps for her husband singing a love song with another woman? A smart one–because I had a plan. Jared told me not to bring up divorce again, so I’d just nudge things along another way.

Tracy was running out of time. She wanted my place badly. If she turned up the pressure on Jared, he’d give it a deep thought and cave eventually. And when he did, he’d come to me with that polite, detached tone and ask for a divorce–just

like last time.

In my previous life, he’d offered me the villa, 8% of his company shares, and some prime commercial properties. The only thing he wouldn’t compromise on was our daughter’s custody. On paper, it was more than enough to set me up for life.

how I didn’t care about the money then. All I wanted was him. I truly believed holding onto that marriage

way of teaching lessons. It wasn’t sudden disasters that wore me down, but the slow

together. Sunshine lost its warmth. I withdrew from friends, unable to bear their sympathetic glances. Avoided family gatherings, terrified they’d notice how fragile

pissed him off because he

a slow sip of my coffee, and gave the

to the door, her face falling like a disappointed

I got to go back and check on my daughter.” Then he disappeared into the elevator, leaving me to trail behind at my

had always been good at keeping her mask in place–cool, collected, untouchable. But for just a second, when our eyes met, I saw it: raw resentment. The kind that burns slow

Lose your temper.

didn’t make a scene, she would. And I couldn’t wait to watch

sealing us in silence. Then,

it, but on the next floor, a woman stepped in holding her kid’s hand. Without