Hailey seemed to fall silent.I was completely baffled. What extra money? What did Chloe want Hailey to agree to? And it even involved me? What was going on?After a long while, prompted by my wife, Hailey seemed to waver, but she said, “Ugh, Chloe, I really don’t know why you’re doing this. It’s clear your husband loves you so much. Why don’t you two just have a baby? Maybe that would make you change your mind.”
My heart, which had just settled, leaped back into my throat.Chloe’s voice wasn’t loud, but I could hear a hint of dismissiveness in her tone.“I don’t want to become a total mess because of a baby. I want to party it up for a few more years, you know? I’ve been secretly taking birth control pills after every time I’m intimate with my husband.”
“I can’t live without the strong bodies of those younger guys outside!”When I heard that, I almost collapsed onto the floor. So, my so-called full-time housewife was secretly going out to party it up behind my back every day. And that “can’t live without” line was just an excuse.And the fact that we hadn’t had a child all these years? It was all her secretly pulling the strings behind my back.Resentment, pain, and fury instantly surged through my head.
I wanted to rush out, slap her hard a few times, and demand to know why she was doing this.But just then, she spoke again, pleading with Hailey.“Alright, Hailey, my husband has been under a lot of stress for a while now. He sleeps like a log every night. You could put a corpse next to him, and he wouldn’t wake up!”A lightning bolt flashed through my mind. A disbelieving suspicion formed in my heart.
