Chapter 1
My Husband Brought His Mistress Into Our Home—But He Never Expected His Mother To Be Standing In The Kitchen
I came home early from work and heard a woman laughing in my living room.
For one stupid second, I thought my husband Michael had invited a coworker over.
Then I walked around the corner and saw his hand resting on her waist.
Neither of them noticed me.
The woman leaned closer and whispered, “Your wife really has no idea?”
Michael laughed.
“She believes everything I tell her.”
My stomach dropped.
Before I could speak, someone behind me gasped.
It was my mother-in-law, Evelyn.
She had stopped by that afternoon to bring dinner for us.
Her face changed the second she saw her son holding another woman.
“Michael.”
His hand immediately fell away from the woman.
“Mom, this isn't what it looks like.”
Evelyn stared at him like she didn't recognize her own child.
Then she looked at the woman beside him.
“Who are you?”
The woman crossed her arms and said, “Maybe you should ask your son.”
That attitude was all it took.
Evelyn walked straight across the room.
Michael stepped forward, but he was too late.
His mother slapped the woman hard across the face.
The entire room went silent.
“Mom!” Michael shouted.
Evelyn pointed at the front door.
“You walk into my daughter-in-law's home with a married man, and you stand there smiling?”
The woman looked at Michael, waiting for him to defend her.
He didn't.
Then Evelyn turned on her own son.
“I didn't raise you to humiliate your wife.”
Michael's face hardened.
“This is my marriage. Stay out of it.”
Evelyn suddenly laughed, but there was nothing warm about it.
“Your marriage?”
She stepped closer to him.
“If I hear that you're seeing this woman again, you're the one leaving this house.”
Michael froze.
I stared at her.
He quietly said, “You can't throw me out of my own house.”
Evelyn looked at me, then back at him.
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And the expression on her face made Michael go completely pale.
“Michael,” she said, “do you really want Sarah to find out whose name is actually on this house?”
