Back in Time: My Wife's Secret Betrayal

Back in Time: My Wife's Secret Betrayal

Dolores

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My wife of fifty years just passed away. Everyone called me devoted for staying by her side until her last breath. As I sorted through her things, I found a stack of journals, tucked away in a dusty box. Her elegant script filled the pages, but the words, page after page, year after year, were for another man: Caleb Blakely. Fifty years of our marriage had been a lie, her every action orchestrated to protect her secret passion for him. Her "medical trauma," the reason she claimed we could never be intimate, was a cruel fabrication. And my son, Leo-the boy I raised and loved with all my soul after his mother died-he wasn't just my nephew in spirit. He was Caleb' s biological son. The man I thought was my brother, the woman I devoted my life to, they had made me a fool, an unpaid nanny, a convenient placeholder. The agony of five decades of deceit crushed me, and my heart, already weak from age and grief, finally gave out. Then I gasped, eyes flying open, perfectly healthy and impossibly young, back in my bed with the morning sunlight streaming through the window. I was back. Fifty years in the past. Jocelyn was walking in the door, briefcase in hand, ready to begin the betrayal all over again. Not this time.

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My wife of fifty years just passed away. Everyone called me devoted for staying by her side until her last breath.

As I sorted through her things, I found a stack of journals, tucked away in a dusty box.

Her elegant script filled the pages, but the words, page after page, year after year, were for another man: Caleb Blakely.

Fifty years of our marriage had been a lie, her every action orchestrated to protect her secret passion for him.

Her "medical trauma," the reason she claimed we could never be intimate, was a cruel fabrication.

And my son, Leo-the boy I raised and loved with all my soul after his mother died-he wasn't just my nephew in spirit. He was Caleb' s biological son.

The man I thought was my brother, the woman I devoted my life to, they had made me a fool, an unpaid nanny, a convenient placeholder.

The agony of five decades of deceit crushed me, and my heart, already weak from age and grief, finally gave out.

Then I gasped, eyes flying open, perfectly healthy and impossibly young, back in my bed with the morning sunlight streaming through the window.

I was back. Fifty years in the past. Jocelyn was walking in the door, briefcase in hand, ready to begin the betrayal all over again.

Not this time.

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