The Revenge After Husband Remarried

The Scars She Hid From The World

REGINA MCBRIDE

The heavy iron gates of the Wilderness Correction Camp groaned as they released me after three years of state-sponsored hell. I stood on the dirt road, clutching a plastic bag that held my entire life, waiting for the family that claimed they sent me there for "rehab." My brother, Brady, picked me up in a luxury SUV only to throw me out onto a deserted highway in the middle of a brewing storm. He told me I was a "public relations nightmare" and that the rain might finally wash the "stink" of the camp off me. He drove away, leaving me to limp miles through the mud on a snapped ankle. When I finally dragged myself to our family estate, my mother didn't offer a hug; she gasped in horror because my muddy clothes were ruining her Italian marble. They didn't give me my old room back. Instead, they banished me to a moldy gardener’s shack and hired a "babysitter" to make sure I didn't embarrass them further. My sister, Kaleigh, stood there in white cashmere, pretending to cry while clinging to her fiancé, Ambrose—the man who had once been mine. They all treated me like a volatile junkie, refusing to acknowledge that Kaleigh was the one who planted the drugs in my bag three years ago. They wanted to believe I was broken so they wouldn't have to feel guilty about the "wellness retreat" that was actually a torture chamber. I sat in the dark of that shed, feeling the cooling gel on the cigarette burns that covered my arms, and realized they had made a fatal mistake. They thought they had erased me, but I had returned with a roadmap of scars and a hidden satellite phone. At dinner, I didn't beg for their love. I simply rolled up my sleeves and showed them the price of their silence. As the wine spilled and the lies crumbled, I sent a single text to the only person I trusted: "I'm in. Let them simmer." The hunt was finally on.

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It's six in the morning, Valerie got up and went to the bathroom and took a pregnancy test. She hoped this time would be positive because she was two weeks late.

"Let it be positive, let it be positive..." Said Valérie waiting for the pregnancy test in front of her.

"Relax sweetheart, there's nothing to worry about." Said Thierry who joined her.

"I'm tired of hoping for Thierry."

"Hope gives life. The children will come at the right time."

"And when is this opportune moment? I feel alone and I want to hold my own children in my hands."

"I want it too, check the test."

Valerie took the test and a feeling of disappointment showed on her face.

"Don't make that face, we'll try again." Thierry comforted. Valerie turned and headed into the bedroom.

"Go to work, I want to be alone please." She said.

"Stop moping my darling, it will come." Thierry followed her and took her in his arms

"I know, I just want us to be a complete and happy woman but I'm incapable of achieving it."

"I am happy and complete with you, having you by my side is enough for me. We are still young and in good health, we will try to find the solution, okay?"

Valerie nodded in agreement.

"I have to go, we'll see you in the evening." Said Thierry as he left the room.

Valérie also got ready and went to work. She worked in a communications company as an editor-in-chief. When she arrived, she was in a bad mood, her friend Samira noticed this and followed her into her office.

"You look bad today, is there a problem?"

"I wonder how long this will continue." Replied Valerie.

"I bet it's your fertility story, are you sure you don't have any problems?"

"We have no problem. Thierry always tells me that it will come at the right time but I'm afraid he will leave me over that."

"I sympathize with you my darling but you have a wonderful man who takes good care of you and who protects you from his family even if you make a lot of money than him."

"Nothing matters to me but my family and for that I will be forever grateful."

"Be strong, soon you will be pregnant with quadruplets." Samira joked.

"Stop your witchcraft and go to work before I fire you." Replied Valérie on the same.

"We're not kicking Aunty out of the quadruplets otherwise you'll have serious problems." joked Samira

"Crazy that you are, get out of my office now." She chased it away, laughing. When she was left alone, her original mood returned. She opened her computer and started working.

Thierry worked in a small mining company as a secretary. During the break he received a call.

"You look like you're a clock Elena." Replied Thierry.

"I have to be for you my love, I'm waiting for you at the restaurant across the street."

"I'll be there in five minutes."

He sorted out his files and left the company. He walked towards the restaurant across the street from the company and found Elena. She got up and threw herself into his arms; Thierry looked at her and captured her lips giving her a languorous kiss.

"Stop, we are in public my love and someone might see us." Elena said, breaking away.

"I can't stop doing it because you're like a drug, when I see you I want to take you."

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