The week I held my nerve

So after almost 6 months I was armed with a staggering amount of evidence against them both, and after a holiday away from the day to day stresses of making like a private investigator I knew it was only a matter of time........

We both went back to work on the Monday after the holiday - he came home and I smelt her nasty perfume as he bent to kiss me. I held my nerve about saying anything to him because I knew he would deny it and start a row, and deny deny deny. I had to pick my moment, a time when he was vulnerable and unguarded.

Tuesday - he came home and smelt of nothing. She was obviously not in the office that day and in a roundabout chit chat way I managed to get him to confirm that. He seemed a lot happier that day in himself too - perhaps he was trying to get her out of his life and when she wasn't in the office he felt happier in himself?

Wednesday he was on a "team build" and away overnight. I was tempted to go to the hotel he usually stayed at and try to confront them. But I had the girls to think about and I didn’t want to get a babysitter and involve other people in our troubles as I had resolved at the start of the year. And besides, I knew that once again they would deny deny deny and lie if I confronted them together and that they would confer and come up with a fabricated version of events.

Thursday he met his best friend for a beer, he left the office and drove to their usual meeting place halfway between where they both live. He got home about 10:30 pm, unpacked his overnight bag and put his clothes from the Wednesday night through the washing machine. But not before I smelt that now familiar stomach churning cats-piss perfume smell. How I held my nerve I don't know. ....but with a false smile and superficial chit chat with him, I did.

I got up early on the Friday morning and I made us a cup of tea whilst he showered. I found his phone and switched it on, entered the recently changed pin (hacker extraordinaire!!) and checked the messages and call registers. All deleted. In itself suspicious given he had called me around 9:30 pm the previous evening to say he was on his way home.

I was about to switch off his phone when it vibrated in my hand and a message came through. It was from her, she had sent it the previous evening, in readiness for him to see before he arrived at work the next morning, presumably so they could have their mutual ego-stroking chit chat whilst they both drove the hour or so into the office.

I suspect after he called me to say he was on his way home, he called her and spoke to her during the journey of about 40 mins. Then he switched off his phone after deleting the call/text register. She then sent him the text after his phone was switched off.

It said " I am going to bed now. Missing you there to cuddle"


You are both nailed.........................