His Darkest Secret

ckly spread throughout his company's forum

moves! Bet she's been

l together. Always thought she was

irst clip? Where's the re

ident e

who saw the true faces of those two, the

ing Bernard's betrayal. A man who cheated once woul

hat a joke. All it proved

l, the fallout for the fem

rmation about her, her family, and even dis

unleashed i

ew increasingly vile and explicit

s had cons

oided destroying someone else's fami

o pity f

r family and even extended relatives became colla

continued

agically: she drowned

d as quickly as they had appeare

too soon. She never even got to experienc

ame shifted from her actions to her age-she was "just

amed as her being

ay in her i

the heat of the scandal

ded the video who was blame

self at the center of a storm, all

ions were r

ach day. I didn't need to open them to know their contents. Even from

xpose those vid

nd faithful, and now you're preten

d viciously attacked the intern were now demandi

nd bombarded me with comments, tagging me a

wh

ly had I d

sband entwined on that des

he vict

trol. Every day, I received threat

dead rats or dead cats - silen

ough I had taken her place, bearing th

stion myself. Was t

I couldn't cont

all o

e to endure

I felt pain and ang

o-ignore what I saw, pre

was not m

life, I refused to crumble. D

o start defending himself, att

s knees before me, his hands tr

d for forgiveness, desperat

mained r

e and loyalty wer

caused me couldn't be undone by

legs like a desperate man drowning, te

he had been blind

rstanding. He claimed he had been drunk at a midday gatherin

t he said, I

nto my mind. After all, we had shared four

d he explain the

and locked the door. His apologies and pleas fr

mind: this marr

ze of confusion and despair, going thro

. Even my manager noticed my deteriorating performance. After discus

o be mine was handed over to someone

w what this meant: my

I was, I'd hit a wall. T

a large cardboard box that weighed down my arms and chest. I

ad spiraled into such chaos. Everyt

hose videos? If I hadn't shared them, would I have avoided this mess? Wo

of divorce tugged at me with a strange mixture of relief and sorrow

. What if... we tried again? Could we

decision: I would give Bernard anothe

to take that step, a new rev

n herself into the lake, it was Bernard who had c