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The Welcome Party Revenge
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00:06i was thunderstruck because of work separation i haven't seen my husband for a year she didn't
00:12notice anything was wrong i'll definitely be there this weekend for the baby's welcome party
00:17she waved the invitation in her hand look at this design right i forced a smile and took the
00:22invitation from her trying to look calm in the father section i saw my husband's name ethan
00:28walker in the mother section wendy foster i didn't know this woman i memorized the hotel address then
00:35handed the invitation back that weekend i went to the hotel on the invitation the party was lively
00:41a pretty woman stood at the entrance holding a one month old baby girl greeting guests she smiled at
00:47me you must be from my husband's office his company really does hire all the pretty ones please come in
00:52waves of shock crashed inside me i looked at the baby in her arms she was fair-skinned and clean
00:58her eyes and brows had a trace of ethan i kept my face blank and asked where's ethan ethan went
01:04to
01:04pick up my in-laws they'll be here soon two days ago my in-laws had told me they booked
01:09a senior tour
01:10group and would be traveling for two weeks i was worried their retirement savings wouldn't cover it
01:15so i sent my mother-in-law 1200 as a travel fund all these years i treated them like my
01:22own parents
01:23i never thought they'd been lying to me just like ethan wendy didn't notice the storm brewing behind
01:28my eyes she led me to the section reserved for ethan's co-workers man ethan's so lucky gorgeous wife
01:35and now a daughter who's even prettier several men and women chimed in wendy you made the right call
01:41i'll admit i was a little worried when you quit your job to stay home six years later you and
01:47ethan are
01:47still this happy and now you have a baby together i'm so happy for you guys my nails digging into
01:54my
01:54palms i realized that my marriage to ethan was only seven years old and he'd been cheating on me with
02:00wendy for over six of them what's even more ridiculous i'd had no idea for seven whole years
02:07even this morning he'd sent me his usual good morning kiss emoji and a text thinking of you babe
02:12for the past seven years we had a good marriage he'd never lost his temper with me he told me
02:18his
02:18salary was five eight zero zero um kept only one five zero for himself and gave me the rest he
02:25used
02:25his annual bonus to buy me a bracelet every year a year ago he talked to me about a relocation
02:31for work
02:31that would raise his monthly salary by one thousand five hundred dollars he said we needed to think about
02:37our son's future after much thought i agreed to let him relocate to a city a thousand miles away
02:43now i saw that he was like night itself i could no longer see him clearly at all ethan's doing
02:48great
02:48he's been top salesman for years his base salary is five eight hundred dollars and he rakes in
02:54commissions every month i realized then that the salary he told me was only his base pay and his
02:59commissions were used to support his other family wendy you really know how to handle your man
03:05tell me your secret how does ethan listen to you and treat you so well i was curious too
03:11i glanced at wendy without changing my expression it's just that ethan is a good guy i'm lucky to
03:19have found him husband and wife need to understand each other if you worried he might cheat just keep
03:24control of the money ethan gives me his whole paycheck and only keeps a hundred and fifty dollars a
03:29month for cigarettes and he uses his bonus to buy me a bracelet every year
03:34you know what they say where his money goes his heart follows he gave wendy his bonus to buy bracelets
03:42then what had he been giving me they chatted animatedly completely oblivious to me standing
03:47there like an iceberg silent out of place frozen wendy's phone rang she smiled
03:55it's ethan calling me here hold her for a sec she casually placed the baby in my arms the baby
04:01light as a ball of cotton lay quietly in my arms she opened her bright eyes and didn't cry or
04:06fuss
04:07i looked at her with complicated emotions even though i felt like falling apart seeing this soft
04:12little creature i pushed the emotions down wendy stood right next to me ethan's voice came clearly
04:18through the phone babe you just finished postpartum recovery don't overdo it okay i've picked up mom
04:24and dad don't worry i'm not tired take your time seriously don't rush as soon as she hung up a
04:31chorus
04:32of envious voices rose you two are so sweet at the office he texts you every single hour wendy
04:39you really found a good one even if every other guy cheated ethan never would i used to think ethan
04:46was
04:46very attentive to me calling and texting every day even though the calls were short under a minute
04:51but i never suspected he was unfaithful work family the child all the big and small things filled my
04:58time he was also busy with work i never imagined he was sharing every little detail of his life with
05:03another woman i carried the baby and found an empty seat i noticed the baby was wearing a custom silver
05:09bracelet the charm was a star i recognized it immediately seven years ago when i first found out
05:16i was pregnant with twins a boy and a girl my mother had ordered a matching pair of silver
05:21bracelets from a jeweler one with an angel charm one with a star she traveled a thousand miles to an
05:27old church to have them blessed but fate wasn't kind there were complications during delivery and only
05:33our son survived i was devastated the birth had damaged my uterus and i could no longer have more
05:39children of the pair the angel bracelet had been worn by my son from the day he was born
05:44the star one i kept carefully locked in our home safe whenever i thought of the daughter i'd never
05:49held i'd take out that bracelet and cry for a long time my hands trembled as i touched the star
05:54pattern
05:55and gently turned it over engraved on the back were the letters eleanor that was my mother's name
06:01i'd chosen it for my unborn daughter to honor her my daughter's name is eleanor ethan picked it
06:07wendy walked over smiling and sat down next to me he also had this bracelet custom made for her
06:12you have no idea how much he loves having a daughter my heart shattered into tiny pieces
06:18i forced myself to stay calm he treats you well wendy smiled and chatted as if we were old friends
06:24you must be pretty new at the company i used to know all the old employees after i left ethan
06:30told
06:30me they hired a lot of new people i gave an insincere the company treats people well but there's a
06:37lot
06:37of travel ethan only stopped traveling this past year he used to travel all the time we'd barely see
06:44each other for weeks but now we've made it through bitter smile touched my lips yay before ethan was
06:51relocated out of state a year ago he used to travel about half of every month i felt bad for
06:56him
06:56always moving from city to city so i never asked him to worry about anything at home when his parents
07:02got sick needed hospital stays or required care i never made him handle any of it even the intimacy
07:08between us had dwindled over the years but i never complained now i understood he'd never been on
07:14business trips he'd been taking care of another home wendy showed no sign of taking the baby back
07:20she got up from time to time to greet more friends and relatives she looked at the baby
07:25quiet and content in my arms and said in surprise my daughter really likes you when i ask my friends
07:31to hold her she always cries you've been holding her for so long and she hasn't cried at all
07:36it's amazing i said flatly maybe it's because i have a kid too i've had practice well then thanks
07:43for holding her i need to go greet some new arrivals she was delighted and didn't stand on ceremony
07:49i nodded she walked off to greet the guests without a worry i looked at the large banner
07:54hanging in the center of the room it read welcome eleanor i felt as if my body had been filled
08:00with
08:00shards of glass my son had never had a welcome party at the time the whole family was drowning
08:05in the pain of losing the other twin ethan had insisted we not hold a celebration my parents
08:11disagreed they thought a welcome party was an important milestone but he refused saying the grief
08:16of losing her daughter was too much and now that he had a daughter he was perfectly happy to throw
08:21a big celebration i was the only one who still remembered the daughter who never got to be born
08:27suddenly my mother-in-law called i didn't hesitate i answered jenna did you see the text i sent you
08:33her voice sounded normal no my voice was as cold as ice are you at the supermarket or something
08:38it's noisy go read my text i can't hear you just message me back
08:43she hung up i opened the messaging app 20 minutes ago she'd sent me jenna i need three thousand dollars
08:51transfer it now don't ask questions my fingers gripping the phone turned white blood rushed to my head
08:58not only had his whole family been lying to me but now they wanted me to pay for the illegitimate
09:03daughter's gift i was so angry i laughed i didn't reply she texted again did you send it yet
09:09after all i've done for you you can't even help family i still didn't reply i was waiting for her
09:15to show up at the party a moment later another message came she scolded me i always thought
09:21you had some decency i was wrong you're worthless fine don't expect anything from us ever again
09:28a mocking cold smile curled on my lips all those words about i treat you like my own daughter
09:34you're wonderful the walker family is so lucky to have you all of it had been lies a joke at
09:39my
09:39expense wendy came back while still on the phone i clearly heard ethan's voice from the receiver
09:45babe mom found another bracelet for our little treasure you don't have to buy anything our baby
09:51already has plenty of jewelry ethan added this one's different it's the angel bracelet that was
09:56blessed at the old church it's special not like ordinary jewelry my blood boiled i was so angry i
10:03almost lost control two days ago my son leo left for summer camp before he left margaret made him
10:10take off his bracelet so he wouldn't lose it he took it off and gave it to her for safekeeping
10:15i never imagined she'd now give my son's bracelet to ethan's illegitimate daughter tell her thanks
10:21wendy smiled sweetly whatever just get everything ready we'll be there in 10
10:24we're almost there see you soon as soon as she hung up wendy reached for the baby but then she
10:30saw
10:30more guests arriving and hurried off to greet them again i kept holding their illegitimate daughter
10:35the baby stayed remarkably quiet in my arms i looked at her silently your welcome party will be
10:42unforgettable for everyone finally i heard the voices of ethan and his family arriving late
10:48i carried his illegitimate daughter onto the small stage babe where's our baby as he asked wendy i picked
10:55up the microphone and said in a voice dear your bastard is right here in my arms for a second
11:02the
11:03room went completely silent every eye turned to me on the stage then chaos erupted the guests buzzed
11:09like boiling water ethan looked like he'd been struck by lightning he stared at me frozen my in-laws faces
11:15turned even pallor wendy looked dazed as if she'd been hit by a truck but her instinct was still to
11:21trust
11:21ethan she hurried over to me trying to keep her emotions in check and spoke gently i'm sorry i don't
11:28know your name i thought you were one of ethan's co-works are you and ethan having some kind of
11:33conflict
11:33we can talk it out please give me the baby first okay my cold face and sharp eyes frightened her
11:40she reached out carefully afraid i might hurt the baby if she made the wrong move i didn't hand the
11:46baby over instead i said i've been his legal wife for seven years we have a six-year-old son
11:52do you
11:53think we have a conflict wendy's face went white her legs buckled and she stepped back tears streamed
11:59down her face that can't be i stared at ethan and asked coldly honey tell me how many years have
12:07we been married the word honey dripped with sarcasm everyone's eyes burned into ethan like fire
12:13his face flushed red all the way to his neck he stood there frozen i always thought ethan was
12:18divorced turns out he never even left his first wife so which one's his actual wife how does a guy
12:24end up with two no wonder that woman on stage didn't say a word earlier i could tell something
12:30was off i looked at my in-laws who were also humiliated and awkward dad mom i said deliberately
12:37tell everyone which one of us is your daughter-in-law wendy stared hard at them too my in-laws
12:44lowered
12:44their heads and didn't answer ethan looked like a man with a knife at his throat he walked onto the
12:50stage one painful step at a time wendy cried and grabbed his arm tell me what's going on which one
12:58of us is the other woman ethan tried to calm her guilt heavy in his voice don't get upset
13:03i'll explain everything wendy wouldn't let it go i want you to tell me right now she pointed at me
13:09with the hand that wore her wedding ring she's crashed our baby's welcome party this needs to be
13:14cleared up in front of everyone whether i'm the other woman or she is we were both deceived by you
13:20we're both victims i recognized that ring when ethan and i got married i'd fallen in love with that
13:26exact design but it cost two thousand five hundred too expensive i'd settle it for a two five zero gold
13:33band instead back then ethan's eyes had reddened with guilt he promised me that someday when he could
13:39afford it he'd buy it for me now he could afford it and it was on another woman's finger ethan
13:44looked up
13:45at me a mess of emotion swirled in his eyes shame fear guilt his lips moved with difficulty i'm sorry
13:52let's not do this here can we go home and talk his voice was so low that only the three
13:57of us
13:57could hear i was so angry i could feel my teeth grinding i deliberately raised the microphone
14:04what did you say dear my voice carried to every corner of the room go home which home
14:11the one with me or the one with wendy he was even more ashamed unable to face me
14:18he stepped forward and reached for the microphone please stop i stepped back and pulled the microphone
14:25away answer me how many families do you have who is your wife what are you even doing here today
14:32wendy stepped closer pulling at his arm tell her ethan was forced to answer you're my wife
14:39i'm sorry i shouldn't have cheated the crowd erupted again wendy broke down crying and pounded his chest
14:46then what am i how could you do this to me suddenly she remembered something no we have a marriage
14:53certificate i'm your lawful wife you married me properly ethan couldn't look at her he had to admit
15:01it the marriage certificate is fake wendy's legs gave way she collapsed onto the floor her sobs
15:07heartbreaking she screamed at him through tears fake you gave me a wedding gift you gave me a
15:14wedding you were there when my parents died and now we have a child and you tell me it's all
15:20fake
15:20ethan how could you do this to me ethan stood between wendy and me trapped by his own guilt not
15:26knowing which way to turn i spoke to wendy he treated you better than he ever treated me
15:30he gave me his base salary fifty five hundred dollars a month every penny of his commissions
15:36went to you every year he bought you real tiffany bracelets the ones he gave me were fake his story
15:42about being relocated for work also fake he's been living with you openly playing the role of your
15:46husband i lifted her daughter's wrist and shook the silver bracelet on it do you know where this
15:51bracelet came from she looked confused waiting for me to explain seven years ago i was pregnant
15:57with twins a boy and a girl my mother had a matching pair of custom bracelets made one with an
16:04angel charm
16:04one with a star she had them engraved with the name eleanor and took them to an old church to
16:10be blessed
16:10oh and your daughter's name i chose it for the daughter i never got to hold i never imagined he'd
16:16give
16:16my daughter's things to your daughter my voice caught even now thinking about the baby i'd lost
16:21still cut like a knife i looked at my in-laws standing in the crowd my dear mother-in-law
16:27wanted
16:27to take the angel bracelet my son wears and give it to this nameless granddaughter my heart turned to ice
16:33all those years of care and this was how they repaid me it feels like a knife stabbed into my
16:38throat for
16:39seven years of marriage how did i treat you seven years how many times have you been in the hospital
16:45i was
16:46the one by your bedsides taking care of everything a few days ago you said you were going on a
16:50trip
16:51i sent you one twelve hundred dollars for it i treated you like my own parents and you how did
16:58you treat me how did you treat your only grandson margaret publicly called out looked like she wanted
17:04to crawl into a hole the surrounding guest's comments stripped the old couple of any remaining
17:08dignity i can't believe it the guy's a total jerk and his parents actually enabled him to cheat
17:14like father like son the whole family's a disgrace she was a good wife they didn't deserve her anyone
17:20would be unlucky to marry into that family ethan wrapped his arms around me his voice thick with
17:25tears sorry i'm such an you've worked so hard i won't make the same mistake again forgive me this
17:33once i've been such a jerk wendy watched him her tears also turned into a bitter laugh
17:40she grabbed ethan's arm then she slapped him as hard as she could what about me how are you gonna
17:46make this up to me you bastard her whole body was shaking her delicate makeup ruined by tears
17:52ethan said guiltily i'm sorry i lied to you and i wasted your time you'll find someone better than
17:59a piece of garbage like me wendy laughed hysterically garbage garbage ethan barely glanced at her he
18:09looked back at me his eyes red again babe can we go home i looked down at the baby what
18:15about her
18:17what do you plan to do i know you always wanted a daughter if you're willing to raise her we
18:22can
18:22keep her wendy stumbled toward me and fell to her knees her voice trembled please please give me my
18:29baby back she reached out carefully terrified that if she upset me i won't fight you for him you can
18:36have him she sobbed don't take my baby i swear i didn't know he had a family seeing her so
18:43desperate
18:43for her child as a mother myself i felt for her i started to remove the bracelet from the baby's
18:49wrist
18:49wendy flinched wanting to tell me to be gentle but afraid to speak don't worry i won't hurt her
18:56wendy pleaded she's hungry let me feed her please give her back i need you to answer a few questions
19:05first she nodded ready to tell me anything how much money did ethan give you including the engagement
19:12gift the wedding everything without hesitation she looked me in the eye he gave me 25 000
19:19as a wedding gift after we got married he gave me between 4 000 and 7 000 a month
19:25and every year he used his bonus to buy me a bracelet i know you could sue me for every
19:31penny
19:31he gave me so i'm not lying i was calmer now if i ask you to pay it back will
19:36you she nodded
19:39yes give me your account number i'll transfer it right now i was surprised by how quickly she agreed
19:44i pulled out my phone and showed her my account details wendy took out her phone and made the
19:50transfer within a minute 360 000 appeared in my account the money is yours i just want my baby
19:58can i have her back now i walked over helped her up and gently placed the baby in her arms
20:04this is your
20:04child no one is going to take her from you she held the baby tightly terrified of losing her again
20:11and
20:11finally let out a breath of relief then i added i'll take the money but i don't want the man
20:17with
20:17that i turned and walked out of the party ethan followed me immediately we went back to the house
20:23we'd shared for seven years in the living room a family portrait hung on the wall it used to warm
20:28my heart to see it when i came home from work now it felt like a knife cutting into my
20:32chest ethan
20:33came closer and tried to put his arm around me there won't be a next time just this once
20:38don't touch me ethan didn't dare come closer
20:43he begged i'm sorry babe i was out of my mind i promise i'll cut her off completely we can
20:51be a
20:51happy family again please my in-laws came back margaret spoke with a heavy fake apologetic tone jenna i know
20:58this is hard on you but there's nothing i can do that baby is still ethan's i hope you can
21:04stop
21:04dwelling on this just go back to living your life like before what's done is done harold said don't
21:09bring it up again just focus on the family i glared at ethan i'm divorcing you you make me sick
21:14his eyes reddened what do i have to do for you to forgive me anything i'll do anything hatred surged
21:21inside me i was breaking down my voice cracking he finally understood that i would never forgive him
21:29i went to the bedroom and locked myself inside i saw our wedding photo on the wall ethan smiling
21:35his arms around me from behind i couldn't stand it for another second i climbed onto the bed with my
21:41shoes on took down the photo and stabbed a pair of scissors into ethan's face again and again
21:47outside ethan kept begging then i called my lawyer rachel and told her everything my hands were
21:54shaking but not from fear i want every penny back she laughed that's my girl i'll have the paperwork
22:01ready by morning i hung up and opened the banking app two clicks later every joint account was frozen
22:06before i left the house i reached my son's bracelet ethan suddenly fell to his knees he grabbed my hands
22:14and
22:14begged i know i was wrong for our son's sake give me one last chance please i yanked my hands
22:20away i
22:21went to my other house i'd saved most of the money ethan gave me over the years i made about
22:26two thousand
22:27eight hundred dollars a month from my job i bought this house with the mortgage a few years ago and
22:33paid
22:33it off last year we planned to leave this house to our son now it would be our home mine
22:38and leo's the
22:39next day i realized i'd left my work laptop at the old house when i came back to get it
22:45i overheard
22:45margaret talking to ethan by the door jenna's not coming back a divorce might be for the best wendy
22:52has a better temperament her grandparents probably left her close to a million in cash and property
22:58if you marry her it'll all be yours jenna makes nothing and she's stubborn harold chimed in ethan said
23:04listlessly jenna insists on divorce i don't have a choice i was completely numb inside i had my lawyer
23:10negotiate the divorce terms custody of leo went to me the rest of the family assets also went to me
23:17he sent me many messages begging me to take him back i ignored them all seeing that i wouldn't change
23:23my mind he agreed to the divorce a month later we signed the divorce papers the day after the divorce
23:30was final wendy came to see me like me she'd lost weight over the past month ethan said you got
23:36divorced yes i have full custody i kept my tone normal and took a sip of my coffee she gave
23:42a weak
23:42smile i'm sorry for hurting you it's not your fault it's ethan's neither of us is to blame i hesitated
23:49then decided to be kind i don't know if you're considering being with ethan before you decide i
23:54want you to hear this i pulled out my phone and played the recording for her wendy has a better
23:59temperament her grandparents left her money wendy looked deeply hurt she laughed bitterly so i was
24:06his second choice that whole family is garbage i hope you don't fall back in take care of yourself
24:15thank you i really mean it if we just let this go he'll do the same thing to someone else
24:21i said
24:22she nodded slowly what do you have in mind i pulled out my phone and opened social media
24:28we post everything her eyes widened i'm just fighting back i went first the city lights behind
24:36me hi my name is jenna collins for seven years i was legally married to ethan walker today i found
24:44out he's been living a double life with another woman for six of those years he faked a marriage
24:49certificate he stole my late mother's name for his illegitimate daughter and he gave her the bracelet
24:56that my son wore then i gave the phone to wendy she took a deep breath and started recording my
25:02name
25:02is wendy foster i'm the other woman except i didn't know i was the other woman ethan told me he
25:10was
25:10divorced i took the phone back and added a caption ethan walker medical sales lives in chicago and dallas
25:18if you're dating him run and if you're his employer ask him about his relocation i hit post within an
25:27hour it had 5 000 shares wendy looked at her own phone where our video was playing smiled a real
25:34smile
25:35you deserve so much better ethan isn't good enough for you and honestly he's not good enough for me
25:41either her smile became more natural let's introduce ourselves properly i'm wendy i paused for
25:50only a second then took her hand jenna the afternoon the divorce was finalized ethan walked into his
25:57office like nothing had happened the receptionist didn't say hello his assistant wouldn't look at him
26:04his boss called him into conference room so everyone could see ethan we've had three client
26:10complaints this morning all of them saw that video i can explain oh you can't use company email to
26:18coordinate a fake wedding you told us you were divorced that's fraud hr is reviewing your file
26:25go home don't come back until we call you ethan walked to his desk to pack his things i heard
26:32he
26:32stole his wife's dead baby's name did you really steal your wife's dead baby's name he didn't say
26:38anything he grabbed his laptop and walked out head down face purple the video of his walk of shame was
26:46posted online before he reached the parking lot his career never recovered i heard later that ethan begged
26:53wendy to take him back for two months not only did she not give in she grew even more disgusted
27:00with him
27:01ethan ended up with nothing not wendy not me not even his reputation he'd always played the good husband
27:09at work he found another job but his pay was cut in half after wendy refused to take him back
27:17he came
27:17crawling to me using leo as an excuse every time ever since leo found out about his father's affair
27:25he'd been cold to ethan my ex-in-law's also showed up at my door teary-eyed asking me to
27:32come back after
27:33i left no one took care of them when they got sick no one drove them to appointments they were
27:39too cheap
27:39to hire a nurse only then did they realize how much i'd done margaret cried and begged jenna please
27:46we made a terrible mistake you're a good person we need you just come home please
27:54i looked at her coldly you want a free caretaker you'll never get a happy ending after that she
28:01and ethan kept showing up either at my place or wendy's until they found out wendy and i had become
28:06close friends that's when ethan realized we joined forces and no one wendy and i both moved on but before
28:14either of us found someone who deserved us we found ourselves first the day leo came home from
28:20summer camp he stood at the door and asked mom is it true i have a sister i knelt down
28:25and told him the
28:26truth he was quiet for a long time then he hugged me and said mom i'm glad i live with
28:31you that night
28:32i started a blog i called it the silent air i wrote about the seven years i lost within a
28:39month i had 50 000
28:40followers i started a consulting business helping women gather evidence before they filed for divorce
28:46wendy joined me as a partner she handled the legal paperwork i handled the emotional strategy within
28:53six months we'd helped 40 women freeze assets document infidelity and walk away with what they
28:58deserved meanwhile ethan was living in a one-bedroom apartment above a pizza joint his new co-workers didn't
29:05know his story but the blog had a long memory and i wasn't done writing
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