Veiled Truths

Chapter 4

Zachary

“I have told you countless times, I can’t give this baby to you, not right now, I have a plan that will give us a good life so be patient. You know I love you so much, and I know how much you want to be in the life of your child, waiting a year or two shouldn’t be a problem if you want your child to have a comfortable life.”

I stood by the door, my hands shaking. At this point I didn’t know if I had taken the right part or not, how could the woman I love do this to me? I wondered, the door suddenly opened, jolting me out of my thoughts.

“Baby, why… why are you standing outside here, come here.” She stuttered, held my tie, and dragged me in.

“I told the chef to make something delicious for you, are you ready to eat?” She continued as she helped me unbutton my shirt.

“Who were you on the phone with?”

“Phone? I…. I wasn’t on the phone, no call came through my phone today.

“Don’t you dare lie to me, Nicole! Who were you on the bloody phone with?” I said with my face swelling and my blood racing through my body, my hands were still shaking.

“I said I wasn’t on the phone with anyone, what’s this fuss all about? Are you ready to have dinner or not? Please, I have other important things to do.”

I was amazed by how Nicole could lie to me confidently, and at the same time try to gaslight me.

“You weren’t on the phone with anyone, yet I heard you talking to someone about you not being able to give our baby to them right now and he should wait a year or two if he wants his child to have a comfortable life. I would ask this question one last time: who were you on the phone with Nicole?”

“Why are you raising your voice at me? Did I do something to offend you? I wasn’t on the phone with anyone, why don’t you want to believe me?” Nicole said as she burst into tears, “I love you so much and I can never lie to you, I was just watching some i********: reel, please believe me.” She continued as she sobbed.

“It’s okay babe, I’m sorry. I believe you, I just thought I heard you talking to someone over the phone.” I said as I grabbed her close to me and hugged her while I rubbed her back.

I had to make her believe she succeeded in fooling me, but this made me skeptical and worried about what else she could be hiding. I needed to do something and to do it real quick.

I called my friend Adrien who is also my secretary and I asked him to set up a meeting for me with the best hacker he could find. Going through Nicole’s phone would make her suspicious so I needed to do it in a way she would not notice.

The next morning I got ready for work and kissed Nicole on her cheek before I left the house. She was fast asleep and I needed to play cool with her.

“How long would it take you to hack social media accounts, emails, and messages? No wait, let me rephrase that, how long would it take you to hack someone’s phone? I want to be able to see everything the person is doing on their phone.”

I was in a meeting with the hacker, I was ready to pay any price just to get this done. I wouldn’t want to raise someone else’s child. It’s not even on my bucket list.

“Twenty-four hours will get the job done, all I will be needing is the contact details of this person, and it will cost you twenty thousand dollars for this job.”

“I will make it forty thousand dollars if you can get the job done in twelve hours, deal?”

“Deal, I will get to work right away.” He said and he walked out of the room.

“Whose phone do you want to hack, a rival?” Andrien asked with his eyebrows raised, almost touching his hairline.

The expression on his face gave a really funny look but I couldn’t laugh as I had so much going on in my mind that I had no room for happiness or laughter.

“My wife Nicole,” I told him everything I heard her say to someone over the phone and how she denied it.

“F*ck!! Man, you guys have been married for what? Seven months? And all of a sudden this? I’m in full support and we will get to the bottom of this.”

Andrien gave me all the support I needed and that’s what I love about him, he loves and supports me like a brother, he also gives good advice, and that’s why I see him as my brother.

Before the close of work that day I received an email with login details for every social media platform Nicole had an account with and a password to her mail.

I logged into every single one of them and began to go through every message one after the other.

I saw messages that made me furious but I kept on reading non-stop until I read one message that made my heart sink to my stomach, my eyeballs almost falling out in shock.

The message reads “As long as you can make it look real and believable that she was cheating on him in their matrimonial bed I will pay whatever amount you charge. Here’s her picture and here’s a picture of their bedroom.”

Then it dawned on me that Andrea didn’t cheat, it was a fake edited picture, and I had lost the woman who loved me despite my flaws and all the horrible things I did to her. Andrea treated me like a king and I know I can never find someone like her anywhere in the world.

My heart shattered and all the bones in my body weakened, I sat there thinking of the horrible things I did to Andrea, and the corners of my eyes began to cloud with tears.

I stormed out of the office and headed straight home.