"If I hadn't checked your phone, I never would have known that while I was exhausting myself trying to hold this family together, you were busy playing happy family with your ex-wife."
I stared at Simon through trembling anger. "You cheated on me, and somehow you still think you're the victim?"
The chat history between him and Megan stretched endlessly upward.
At first, they had only used Tommy as an excuse to talk, keeping their conversations polite and restrained. But slowly, the boundaries blurred. Daily check-ins turned into private jokes, late-night conversations, and words no married man should have been saying to another woman.
Meanwhile, after Tessa was born, every conversation Simon had with me revolved around groceries, bills, or household expenses. Whenever I tried talking t
