Chapter 2

Chapter 2 The Humiliation

The next day, I discovered that my husband had blocked every possible way for me to contact him. But I needed an explanation. He couldn’t just block me like that and walk out of my life without even looking me in the eye and explaining how he had gotten involved with Karen. My moment of rage had passed, and now I wanted to talk calmly and understand what was happening. He was still my husband. I deserved an explanation. He couldn’t simply throw our history away like trash.

We met when he started working at my father’s company. He was a kind man who took weeks to gather the courage to ask me out. Our connection had been immediate. It was the beginning of a beautiful love story. Between dating and marriage, only six months had passed.

Soon after, my parents died in a car accident. Carl stayed by my side the entire time, supporting me and helping with all the paperwork. Back then, my father owned a construction company, but as I later discovered, it was drowning in debt.

Karen had dropped out of college. My father had given one house to her and another to me inside a gated community, where I moved in with Carl.

Karen didn’t want to study or work. She sold her house and wasted the money on designer clothes, trips, and older wealthy men. My sister had no sense of responsibility, and I could only hope she would settle down one day.

Meanwhile, Carl and I worked day and night to pay off the company’s debts and rebuild the business. After five years, we finally secured new contracts, and money started coming in again.