Gabriel Cross was having an affair with my best friend, Sienna Price. After it came out, my dad beat Gabriel so badly he was blinded in his left eye.
My mother grabbed Sienna by the throat and choked her until she passed out.
When Gabriel threatened to press charges, I begged him to spare my parents. He gave me two conditions.
“First,” he said, “I’ll end things with her and come back to you. But you can never bring up divorce again.”
“Second, you can only see your parents once a year. No contact with them the rest of the time.”
I agreed. For the next three years, I only saw my parents at Christmas.
This Thanksgiving, Gabriel said he had to travel for work again.
I bought a pumpkin pie and planned to sneak over to my parents’ house in Bellevue.
I was standing just outside the glass door to their backyard when I saw my father playing chess with Gabriel.
“That punch I threw was too hard,” my father said, looking at Gabriel’s left eye. “It’s a damn shame about that eye.”
Gabriel just waved it off.
“It’s fine. Without you two running interference, a woman with Mags’s temper would have divorced me for sure.”
“This is much better,” he continued. “Your house has become our little safe house. A place for me and Sia to meet. No one suspects a thing.”
Just then, my mother appeared at the door, her arm around a visibly pregnant Sienna. She called the men inside for dinner.
They looked like a family.
Whatever hope I had left died in that instant.
Gabriel had probably forgotten. When we got married, he’d signed a postnuptial agreement. All it needed was my signature to be executed by a lawyer.
He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 18 “I don’t miss it. Get out of my room.” Gabriel knelt there in the dark, crying. Finally, he got up and left through the front door. I locked the balcony door and immediately notified building management to preserve the security footage. The next day, my
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He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 17 I walked past him and unlocked my door. “Now that you’re done, please leave. You standing outside my door makes me uncomfortable.” I shut the door in his face. That night, a sudden gust of cold air woke me from a deep sleep. I opened
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He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 16 “It’s okay. Thank you.” We went upstairs, one after the other. Julian stayed for dinner. While he was washing vegetables at the sink, he kept looking like he wanted to say something. I set a pot on the stove. “If you want to ask, just
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He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 15 “Sienna lost the baby, too,” he said, his words tumbling out. “This time, I swear, I’ll end things with her for good.” He hadn’t even finished speaking when I slapped him across the face. Gabriel’s head snapped to the side. He just stood there, stunned.
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He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 14 Laura frowned. “What good will that do? Even if Margot’s gone, he’s not going to marry you.” “We agreed from the start. You would not destroy Margot’s marriage.” Sienna’s temper flared. “Stop pretending. You take my side when you’re with her, and you protect her
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He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 12 Laura lowered her head, silent. Inside the house, Thomas sat alone at the dining table, drinking bourbon. He had never known. Sienna was the daughter his wife had given birth to before they’d met, a secret she had kept for decades. All this time, he
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He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 11 “Gabe, do you really think I did that on purpose?” He didn’t want to argue. He just took out his phone and called Thomas. “Thomas, Sia is here. Can you come get her?” The refusal on the other end was immediate and cold. “Why would
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He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 10 Sienna lifted a foot to step inside. Gabriel instinctively blocked the doorway. “We had an agreement. You don’t come here. You don’t ever let Margot see you.” Sienna froze. “She’s already gone, and I still can’t come in?” “Besides, I’m not the one who broke
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He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 09 Sienna reached for his sleeve. He didn’t seem to notice. He just turned and headed for the door. Just then, Thomas’s phone played the recording Margot had sent. “You didn’t do anything wrong. But Sienna is your half-sister…” The air in the room went still.
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He Cheated With My Friend My Parents Helped Chapter 08 Gabriel stayed at the hospital, sitting with Sienna through every test and exam. The doctor assured them the baby was fine. He and Thomas finally took Sienna home. The moment Gabriel walked in the door, he saw the blood on the floor. Laura was asleep
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