After the Cheating Husband Asked to Remarry

When I got home, I turned on the dictaphone.

Kayden called the girl.

"Wait for me at the college gate."

"Oh my god! Now?"

He put it on speaker and I heard her exclaim in joy.

He smiled and said, "Don't worry. I'll be there in a while."

"Didn't you say we wouldn't meet today? Why are you here all of a sudden?"

"It's Valentine's Day. After thinking about it, I still can't bear to let you spend it alone."

She said excitedly, "Slow down! I'll get up and put on makeup now!"

"Okay. It's going to rain. Remember to bring an umbrella."

After a while, there was a knock on the window.

"Take a back seat," he said.

She got in the car.

"Well, I still don't deserve to sit in the passenger seat." She was a little annoyed.

He said, "One of my wife's friends is a traffic police officer. I gotta be more careful."

"Your wife."

"Carrie Clark."

Kayden read her name word by word, and his tone was a little cold.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. Please punish me."

Her voice sounded pitiful.

"Take off your clothes then."

He lit a cigarette and said casually.

"Wh-what?" she was caught off guard.

"Huh? Didn't you say you wanted me to punish you?"

……

When they were having sex, she asked, "Do you love me?"

"If I don't love you, why did I come to you in the middle of the night?"

"I love you too," she said, sobbing.

I sat in the living room and listened to the recording over and over again.

The dictaphone had long run out of battery. I continued to press the switch mechanically until sunset.

I took a week off from the company and went back to my hometown.

"Divorce? What are you thinking about?"

Before I could finish my words, my mother shouted.

"Aren't you always against our marriage?"

"I was indeed! Now Kayden is no longer poor before. Your brother needs his money to buy a house when he gets married. Don't make any trouble at this critical moment!"

"Mom, he cheated on me with a female college student."

"Men do cheat. He's under so much pressure at work. We should give him some space to relax himself."

"He still loves you, so you should try your best to give him a child. After that, you can quit your job and be a housewife at home!"

I looked at my younger brother and asked, "Do you think so too?"

"Leah, Bella will come and spend New Year's Eve with us. You can just turn a blind eye to his cheating. Anyway, he never wants to divorce you."

I had doted on him since I was a child. Looking at him now, I couldn't say anything.

My mother was exasperated at my complaint.

"I'm such a smart person. How could I have such a stupid daughter like you?"

"When Kayden was poor, you decided to be with him. Now that he has made a name for himself, you want to divorce him?"

"Do you think you're still young? You had a miscarriage! Do you think you can find a second husband as rich as Kayden?"

In the end, she threw the things I had brought back out of the door.

"You're a married woman. You can't go back to my home so often!"

"Go home and make Kayden happy! Try your best to give him a son, and no one can take him from you!"

I walked down the street with a bag of fruits and my suitcase.

The sun was scorching hot, but my body was cold.

Kayden sent me a message asking me why I was not at home.

I didn't reply.

Soon, I received a call from him.

"Leah, why didn't you reply to my message?"

"I went back to my mother's place and I didn't see any messages."

"Did something happen to her?"

"No, I'm a little tired at work, so I'll stay there for a few days."

He could tell from my voice that something was wrong and asked with concern, "Did your mother scold you again?"

"Yeah, she did."

"Go back to New York. I'll pick you up at the station," he said decisively. "Let's go to the barbecue joint on Carder Rd for dinner tonight."

I had wanted to go to that joint for a long time, but I didn't have the time.

"Don't take your mother's words to heart. You still have me. Our lives are more important than anything else."

It sounded so familiar.

When I was at my most difficult time, he had said the same thing to me.

I didn't reply. Tears rolled down my cheeks.

"You silly, are you crying? I'll buy you a ticket now. Hurry home."

"Sure."