Chapter 7

Patrick had two WhatsApp accounts on his phone. Besides the main account that I was aware of, he had another account as well. Almost all the contacts there were young women. Lucille's contact was pinned and appeared at the top of the list.

Upon clicking on his conversation with Lucille, I saw that he had sent her messages almost every day to tell her how much he missed her and how he wished she would return to him.

He had been sending those messages until the day we had seen her at the hospital. After that, he had stopped sending her messages altogether. It seemed like Patrick had taken my word for it and had no doubt that Lucille had cheated on him.

I knew what a vengeful person Patrick was, and I could almost predict what he would do when Lucille came looking for him with the baby.

If Lucille had influenced my decision to divorce Patrick, then the crude text messages he had sent other women and his transaction histories with them only strengthened my resolve to go through wit