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Divorce After Husband's Affair Unmasked

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I slid into the driver's seat of our Audi, the leather cool against my legs despite the warm Seattle afternoon. As I reached to insert the key into the ignition, something stopped me. The car smelled... different. Wrong. Instead of the subtle vanilla scent I always kept—the one that reminded me of my grandmother's kitchen and brought me comfort during Seattle's endless rainy days—the interior was suffocating with a cloying floral fragrance. The kind that gave me headaches. The kind I'd explicitly told Westin I couldn't stand. "What the hell?" I muttered, reaching for the pink cardboard tree dangling from the rearview mirror. Magnolia Blossom.

Divorce After Husband's Affair Unmasked Chapter 1

I slid into the driver's seat of our Audi, the leather cool against my legs despite the warm Seattle afternoon. As I reached to insert the key into the ignition, something stopped me. The car smelled... different. Wrong.

Instead of the subtle vanilla scent I always kept—the one that reminded me of my grandmother's kitchen and brought me comfort during Seattle's endless rainy days—the interior was suffocating with a cloying floral fragrance. The kind that gave me headaches. The kind I'd explicitly told Westin I couldn't stand.

"What the hell?" I muttered, reaching for the pink cardboard tree dangling from the rearview mirror. Magnolia Blossom. I turned it over in my hand, frowning. I hadn't changed this. Which meant Westin had.

It was such a small thing. Ridiculous, really, to feel a cold knot forming in my stomach over an air freshener. But after six years of marriage, I knew this wasn't just about a scent. Westin knew how much I hated floral fragrances—how they triggered my migraines. He'd never have chosen this unless...

Unless someone else had been in our car. Someone whose preferences now mattered more than mine.

I tossed the offending cardboard into the glove compartment and drove home with the windows down, trying to clear both the scent and the unsettling thoughts from my mind.

* * *

Over the next few days, the air freshener incident became just the first in a series of subtle shifts. Westin's phone, once casually left face-up on countertops or tables, was now perpetually clutched in his hand, screen angled away from me. When it chimed with notifications, he'd quickly silence it, offering me tight smiles that never reached his eyes.

"Late meeting tonight," he announced on Thursday, barely looking up from his phone as he grabbed his keys from the marble counter of our Seattle apartment. "Don't wait up."

"Again?" I asked, setting down the financial magazine I'd been reading. "That's the third this week."

"Big client," he replied vaguely. "You know how it is."

I did know. I'd supported him through the early years of his financial consulting firm, working double shifts at the hospital to keep us afloat when clients were scarce. I'd given him $50,000 of my inheritance for startup costs. I'd even helped him network, introducing him to my father's business associates despite how uncomfortable those forced social situations made me feel.

"I was hoping we could discuss the investment portfolio tonight," I said, trying to keep my voice casual. "We need to decide about those retirement allocations."

Westin's eyes slid away from mine. "Not tonight, Lori. I'm swamped."

He was out the door before I could remind him that I hated that nickname.

* * *

The apartment felt too quiet after he left. Our minimalist decor—Westin's preference, not mine—suddenly seemed sterile rather than sophisticated. White walls, black furniture, chrome accents. I'd always longed for color, for warmth, but had compromised for harmony.

I wandered into our home office, trailing my fingers along the edge of his desk. I wasn't proud of the impulse that made me wake his computer, but the growing knot of dread in my stomach wouldn't dissipate.

The screen prompted me for a password. I tried our anniversary—nothing. His birthday—denied. My birthday—access granted.

I felt a momentary pang of guilt that quickly evaporated when I opened our banking app. What I saw made my blood run cold.

Transfer after transfer, tens of thousands of dollars moving from our joint savings account to an external account over the past three months. The recipient's name jumped out at me: Georgia Hamilton.

Georgia. The name I'd heard whispered during late-night phone calls Westin thought I was sleeping through. The name attached to a number I'd seen repeatedly on our phone bill.

The latest transfer had gone through yesterday: $15,000 labeled "Medical Assistance – Margaret."

My hands trembled as I scrolled through the history. $75,000 total. Nearly a third of our savings—money we'd earmarked for our future, for the family we'd planned to start next year.

Money he'd refused to touch two years ago when I needed surgery.

"It's not an emergency," he'd insisted then. "We can't compromise our financial goals for elective procedures."

I'd paid for my own surgery with my personal savings, the money I'd set aside from my nursing career before supporting his dreams.

Now I knew why our discussions about retirement planning kept getting postponed. Why questions about our joint accounts were met with vague reassurances.

Westin wasn't planning a future with me anymore. He was financing one with her.

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