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LIZAI woke up to the sound of my notification alarm going off like a bell. My belly dropped as a gut instinct of what happened filled my belly. I knew what it was. I just didn't want to believe it.He did it. I snatched my phone from the table top, steeling myself to open it. The first thing I saw was the tabloid headline. I felt bile rise in my throat as my eyes scanned it."Billionaire's Wife caught cheating on him with proof!"And they just kept getting worse. I ignored the notification of people tagging me, knowing it would only take me back to where I was throughout these past nights.I opened my chat inbox, seeing about a thousand message notifications from my group chat with Crystal and Karry. I checked if Cole had texted me, but saw nothing. I ignored the side of me telling me I should leave him alone and texted him.Coco Honey Bear: Please call me. Don't look at the news. You need to hear me explain first.I opened the group chat next, skipping through the numerous messages,
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BethLife was a bitch. Who said good always won? They lied. I am not the best person out there and I should have told Cole the truth but I did not deserve this. I had laid in my bathtub for what feels like mere minutes but when I moved my limbs, the intense pins-and-needle sensation made me realise it had been longer than that. I had ben sitting in this tub lost in thought for 2 hours. The same tub Cole and I had shared. The tears gathered in my eyes again and I tied to force them back. Crrying would not help. I had done enough of it the past 2 days to know. I needed a game plan, an organized, plan.Leaving the bathroom, I got dressed and by some twisted fate stepped on the remote. The TV came on and my face came on screen. It was a good picture of me that was used but that was not the point. The headlines were haunting “After Billionaire’s Wife is Found Cheating, Husband Returns Alone. Could it be the End to a Seemingly Perfect but Short-lived Marriage?” I crumbled to the floor. When
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ElizabethThe mornings got worse. Everytime I woke up and didn't see Cole next to me and knowing why he wasn't, it was starting to take a huge toll on my mental health. I rubbed my face, releasing my breath through as a hiss through my teeth.I picked up my phone from the bedside cabinet. I didn't even know who I was going to call. Crystal and Karry were back in Hawaii, and I wasn't about to ask them to come over for me.I could get through this on my own. I just had to keep my head clear and keep running through those practice breathing techniques.I had deleted any form of social media whatsoever, in order to keep myself from going online and seeing the nasty things people were speculating about me.I turned off my phone, throwing off my covers with my empty hand. I slipped my feet into the slippers by the bed, moving towards the kitchen. The pantry was still full, so I decided to treat myself to a lavish breakfast.I wasn't sure I would finish it, but it would lift my spirits. drop
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How could one drunken night, one mistake, one moment of weakness turn my life into this hell hole, how it could ruin your whole life. I wasn't sure what to do, I was too weak to fight, too drained to defend myself.I have been living a lie and I knew it was going to catch up with me, I knew it was going to be the death of me. Why did I sign that stupid contract in the first place, why did I fall in love with Cole, I shouldn't have let him drag me to this stupid vacation. This was where all this started, but even without being told I knew the worst was yet to come, and by the worst I mean; Nate, the bastard who was blackmailing me. But I am done letting men ride me and take advantage of me.I could literally hear the voice of my mother crying one of those nights I had come home to meet her high on cheap coke, with a bottle of whiskey in her hands and her massacre falling from her eyes.I abhorred those moments because I was left to pick up her piece and could call her out of her bullsh
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We didn't fly together, I took the private jet and he flew back using business class in a commercial plane, ever since I had known Cole, he had never flown in a commercial plane, I thought about the countless hours of trips we had have in this private jet while I was still working as his secretary, how many girls I have seen ride with him, how he would flirt with them and how they would think that he was in love with them just to have on the next trip him bringing back another girl. It was a habit for him. I had never seen one girl twice on this train. Most of them flew with us during the trip and he would dismiss them before the trip was over—tops, two days. I sometimes wonder what those girls felt but sometimes I conclude they knew what they were getting into and the truth was that most of them just wanted a taste of his money and glamorous lifestyle. They don't care if this were to be a passing fling, a one-night stand, all they wanted was his money and the prestige that came with
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— Beth —I couldn't believe that my life had come to this, i was all on my own and alone . I had never complained about the robotic life i had lived and endured as Cole's secretary. I had never had a single complain in my life. It was sad to see that i, who was once famous for been unseeable was now out there, in the world, bare and exposed. Everybody had seen my delicate parts, my drunken face and my state of vulnerability. I stood at my window, tear drops creased my cheeks and the hem of my shirt. I didn't want to go out today or ever, there was no use for even trying to see the outside world.I knew that it was bullshit but still, been depressed could have been so much better than what I had going on for me. I had no job, I had no money, I had no cole.Cole...My belly twisted in knots and ended up giving my heart another drop in beats. The sky was grey with the tears I had welled up in my eyes as I recalled our vacation.Baecation as I had findky tried to call it, we had so much f
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— beth—"How did this happen? What the fuck happened! How? What?" That's all I could remember after seeing my naked body on the internet. I remember the disgust that wrapped Cole's face and made him become like a stranger to me. He didn't see the need to want to speak to me or to even let me handle work and who could blame him? He fired me from my job, terminated the contract and still rented a place farway from the city to keep me from all the socials that may have broken into my home if I still lived there. I could imagine all the glass breaking from the windows and how each man climed in and tried to have their way with her.Which got her even more upset, she was a victim and not the oppressor. She was the oppressed. She had nothing to do with it, she didn't know what she was doing,she was intoxicated and didn't know that it wasn't cole, it was Nate. She didn't get the chance to even explain herself as shades from different angles were thrown at her for showing and proudly showcasi
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" Crystal, how did you get my number?" I was overwhelmed with emotions but at the same time I needed to reason because anybody could have been the enemy."Who else? Your doting husband of course" what? I didn't understand how that was even possible. It didn't make any sense whatsoever. How was it that he fired me from my job, took away my freedom, removed me from social media,secluded me from the rest of the world and still have my new number to a friend. Did he love me? Did he still love me? I mean, I remember feeling that it wasn't just me falling in love, he must have felt something too but right now, actions were proving alot more than words. I was so happy that Cole remembered me, my eyes watered at the very moment 'doting husband' was mentioned. I couldn't understand why it made me cry and I didn't know if it was the fact that crystal didn't know that it was a fake, that we were taking it or that he was still caring for me despite the image I had, displayed on ever wall and stre
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