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Seven Years Abroad… My Husband Became Another Woman’s Perfect Husband
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00:00I never imagined that during the seven years my husband was working away from home
00:05he had built another family with another woman when I finally reached his workplace
00:11an old man blocked my way the moment I mentioned I was looking for Derek his expression changed
00:18instantly why are you looking for my son-in-law my mind went blank for a second I thought maybe
00:24it was just a coincidence of names but then the workers nearby relax Jensen Derek is the most
00:30loyal husband around here cheating please your son-in-law wouldn't even dare look at another
00:37woman one of them nodded toward me maybe she's here on official business trying to stay calm
00:43I pulled out a photo of Derek I'm here on business is this the Derek you're talking about the old
00:49man relaxed a little yeah that's him my son-in-law my blood went cold before I could react a
00:57well
00:57dressed woman walked over with a warm smile you're here to see Derek about work you can go wait at
01:05our
01:05place our son had a fever he took him to the city hospital it felt like the ground collapsed under
01:14me
01:16I stared at her unable to breathe I'm sorry and you are I'm Derek's wife Megan she was very friendly
01:27always smiling and casually waved for me to follow her it's not safe for a woman to stay around here
01:35alone come with me he won't be back anytime soon she naturally grabbed my arm and started leading the
01:42way almost against my will I followed her out of the corner of my eye I studied her carefully her
01:50wheat-toned skin was rough from the sun and even with makeup you could still see faint freckles on
01:56her cheeks but she looked noticeably younger than Derek at least 10 years younger wow someone from New
02:04York really does look different your skin is so good she stared at my face openly without any hesitation
02:11there was clear admiration in her eyes my husband has skin like yours too soft and smooth she laughed
02:18warmly completely at ease really are different good living I guess I forced a small stiff smile and said
02:26nothing what did it matter even if I was beautiful successful and took care of everything at home my
02:33husband was still secretly building another family behind my back and he did it without hesitation as if it
02:40meant nothing at all I looked at the woman in front of me a flood of emotions rising in my
02:46chest did
02:47she know Derek was already married did she know the person standing right in front of her was Derek's
02:54wife she was very talkative chatting non-stop the whole way as we walked a couple on a motorcycle passed
03:01by and then slowed down when they saw us the woman sitting on the back handed Megan a bag of
03:07chestnuts
03:08look at how thoughtful Derek is even while taking the kid to the hospital he still made sure someone brought
03:13you chestnut I'm starting to get jealous of you Megan smiled like it was nothing I forced a comment in
03:19your
03:19husband really treats you well the woman on the motorcycle laugh treats her well that's an understatement she says go
03:25east he won't even dare go west the second
03:28Derek sees Megan he's basically a whole different man if she so much as frowns he's already nervous
03:34oh stop teasing me but something sour started rising in my chest it felt like the universe was playing some
03:42cruel joke on me my husband the highly educated man who always talked about equality in marriage
03:50was out here being someone else's completely obedient husband at that moment I wanted to see him more
03:58than ever I wanted to know how he could be two completely different men in front of different
04:05women but a tiny part of me still hoped the Derek Megan was talking about was just someone with the
04:12same
04:13name as my husband Megan's house is situated on a vast stretch of farmland even the house itself was a
04:20beautifully built villa with a swimming pool this was built by Derek pretty nice right it's the only one
04:29like it in our town he's also the first live in son-in-law we've ever had here my heart
04:36skipped
04:37the words live in son-in-law hit me like a punch I didn't expect when we stepped into the
04:45living room
04:45there was a large family photo hanging on the wall a family of six all smiling brightly my throat
04:51tightened because our home had a photo like that too but ours only had three people a 10 year old
04:58son
04:58my husband me no daughter the year he was assigned overseas trust me it'll be at most two years
05:06i'll find a way to come back
05:10and when i do if your health allows it we'll have a second child a complete family no more distance
05:16between us
05:20but he had been gone for seven years except for a few days every christmas i almost never saw him
05:26last
05:27year when he came home i even brought up how i regretted never having a daughter but he suddenly
05:33changed his tone and said times have changed smart people aren't having more kids one child is enough
05:39why add unnecessary pressure i had even believed he had changed his thinking but now i understand
05:48it wasn't a change of heart at all he simply already had a complete family somewhere else just then
05:56megan's phone suddenly rang my heart jumped straight into my throat was it dick and if it was how was
06:04i
06:04supposed to face him megan gave me an apologetic smile and answered the call almost instantly a
06:11familiar voice came through the phone baby did you get home did you get the chestnuts i sent over
06:17my mind went completely blank i hadn't heard that familiar voice in a very long time megan lowered her
06:25voice and started acting spoiled with him
06:35my boss i didn't get any notice you sure you didn't run into some scammer
06:41how could that happen if you don't believe me i'll let her talk to you then she looked at me
06:47expectantly i forced a stiff smile and took the phone what was i supposed to say that i wasn't his
06:55boss
06:55i was the wife who had come here to catch him cheating that he had secretly built another family
07:01behind my back didn't he have anything to say to me just as my heart was pounding and i had
07:07no idea
07:08what to say the phone suddenly died in my hand oh no i'm so sorry your phone ran out of
07:15battery i forced
07:16a stiff smile and handed it back so she could charge it but halfway down the hall megan suddenly turned
07:21around and looked at me did she know did she already realize i wasn't derek's boss did she know
07:29i was derek's other wife almost forgot the wi-fi password is 11913 derek made it my birthday derek
07:36once told me there was no internet in this area that's why only he could reach me i could never
07:42reach him i turned on my phone and connected to megan's wi-fi full signal i forced myself to stay
07:49calm
07:50you two seem really happy together i heard he's here for work aren't you worried he might get
07:55transferred back no not really to be honest he almost got transferred back this time derek pulled
08:02a lot of strings just to stay here again he'll probably stay for another seven years until this
08:08whole project is done derek said he'd rather quit his job than go back
08:15my heart felt like it had fallen straight off a cliff so it wasn't the company forcing derek to
08:21take another assignment he chose it himself even though he knew his mother was in the hospital after
08:27a stroke his father had broken his leg both needed their son even though his little boy kept crying
08:34missing him year after year even though i his wife was overwhelmed with work and family burned out to
08:43the point of being hospitalized more than once still he lived a carefree life thousands of miles away
08:51with another woman a cold shiver ran through me megan noticed and quickly turned on the heater
08:57you must be cold it'll warm up soon derek just bought this heater derek
09:07we're the only house on this block with one it's actually pretty expensive i didn't even want it but
09:13derek insisted he said he didn't want me freezing in winter
09:19he seems a lot older than you was he married before he's 10 years older than me not divorced or
09:26anything
09:26i just got really lucky i am so lucky giving me a man like derek so mature so attractive he's
09:34the
09:34project manager here basically second in command i never thought i'd end up marrying someone that
09:40capable meeting you was the luckiest thing in my life an age gap is actually good older men know how
09:50to take care of people derek is responsible at work and even more responsible at home
09:55he gives me his whole salary every month not a single cent missing my chest tightened i actually
10:01knew how much he made his company's finance officer was my college roommate derek earns a high salary
10:07here almost ten thousand dollars a month but i never believed it because derek had complained to me
10:12more than once that he didn't make enough he even asked me to send him an extra one thousand dollars
10:18every month now everything finally made sense he wasn't short on money he was just giving every
10:24cent of it to this other home he even treats my parents better than he treats me my mom has
10:32a bad
10:32back she said casually pointing at a twenty thousand dollars massage chair he bought it without even
10:37blinking my dad loves drinking he brings home cases of expensive liquor even thousand dollar bottles of
10:42louis 3 c cognac a bitter taste rose in my throat and strangely i even felt a sting of pity
10:48for his real
10:49parents three months ago his mother had a stroke derek please please come back mom is critical she wants to
10:55see you
10:59mom will be fine good people are always protected
11:05he ignored his real family completely his parents his child me and yet here he was a perfect husband
11:13perfect father perfect son-in-law for another family how ironic megan's phone rang she didn't even
11:21bother stepping away i could hear everything clearly since i was sitting right next to her it was derek
11:27his voice was soft the same tone he once used with me honey our son still has a fever the
11:36doctor said he
11:37needs to stay overnight for observation can't sleep with you tonight be good okay cover yourself with
11:43the blanket don't catch a cold one day without you and i already feel off every word hit me like
11:49a
11:49knife we had been married for 12 years only in the early years did he talk to me like that
11:56soft sweet
11:57caring now he didn't even show that kind of care for our own son anymore time turned us into an
12:04old
12:04married couple and now we had become strangers who knew each other too well to pretend anymore
12:12she hung up megan turned to me with a smile about to say something then paused
12:18oh right i didn't even ask your name avery that's such a pretty name it suits you she was still
12:25warm
12:25still talkative just like before even now i couldn't help thinking she was probably just like me another
12:31woman kept in the dark by the way derek won't be back tonight why don't you stay over you can
12:36talk to
12:36him about work tomorrow okay at dinner i finally met their daughter she looked so much like derek
12:46megan's parents weren't as warm to me just polite on the surface their eyes lingered on me guarded
12:53almost suspicious at the table all they talked about was derek the way they said his name he wasn't just
12:59a son-in-law he was their son he had moved into their family taking care of them like his
13:05own
13:06parents even their farm was running perfectly because of him derek is the backbone of this family we can't
13:13do anything without him something sharp lodged in my throat and it wouldn't go away that night megan put
13:21me in a guest room next to her parents after the lights went out i couldn't sleep i could hear
13:27her
13:27parents whispering in the next room for a long time after going back and forth in my head
13:33i finally made a decision i sent an anonymous report to derek's company with evidence then i
13:40texted my younger brother you'll have to come get derek he broke the law he's a cop it didn't make
13:47me
13:47feel better not even close but it was something i had to do for myself and for the ending he
13:54deserved
13:54the next morning megan handed me some of her clothes i looked at the down jacket she brought
13:59over white fitted long a canada goose close to a thousand dollars i had looked at that same jacket
14:06all winter went back to the store again and again not because i couldn't afford it but i had parents
14:12to
14:12take care of a child to raise i had to plan every dollar i used to complain to derek other
14:19husbands buy
14:20clothes for their wives we've been together for years and you've never bought me anything you have
14:26all the money just buy whatever you want i'm afraid i'll pick the wrong thing i don't know women's
14:31clothes turns out it wasn't that he didn't know how he just didn't want to buy anything for me
14:38at breakfast she kept going on about how good derek was to her then she asked what life in new
14:44york was
14:45like she even asked me so how have you been i gave a faint smile i'm okay just my husband
14:56isn't as
14:56devoted as yours she grinned clearly pleased by noon the door suddenly opened derek's familiar voice came
15:04in honey i'm back megan and i both stood up from the couch at the same time and looked at
15:10him i spoke
15:10first which wife are you calling husband derek's face froze he stood there holding a five-year-old boy
15:19his illegitimate son completely stunned the child in his arms just stared at us scared and silent i
15:27looked straight into his eyes not blinking so many questions burned inside me why would he do this to me
15:33to our child to his own parents he was an only son raised with everything his parents had built his
15:41life on their sacrifices and yet behind all of us he became a live-in son-in-law on this
15:48farm living
15:48another life entirely i could never understand him and i could never forgive him the first to break the
15:55silence was megan she screamed what do you mean what are you talking about her smile finally disappeared
16:05tears started falling instantly why is she calling you husband derek froze again and he quickly put the
16:13child down and stepped forward standing between me and megan he hesitated i i can explain everything
16:20explain what explain how we've been married for 12 years and you've had a seven-year affair or explain
16:27how the man who has a wife is now another woman's obedient husband and planning to divorce me so you
16:34can give her a real title every word i said hit like a blade i stared at him forcing him
16:40into silence
16:41forcing him into truth derek finally lowered his head i didn't mean for it i'm sorry megan broke down
16:49instantly you mean it derek what are you saying what am i to you are you leaving me she was
16:56crying
16:56screaming falling apart and just like that derek turned toward her megan that's not what i meant i'm
17:03sorry please give me time to handle this my husband holding another woman right in front of me my chest
17:13felt
17:13like it was being torn open i stepped forward my voice shaking with anger so what do you mean he
17:21let
17:21go of her immediately frozen again trapped between us no courage left to hold either side then my phone
17:28rang a video call from my father-in-law without hesitation i answered avery have you seen derek my father
17:36-in-law's
17:37face filled the screen smiling with hope he hadn't seen his only son in almost two years i switched the
17:43camera to the back and raised my phone the wall behind me showed a family photo i saw him and
17:50i also
17:50saw his new wife new son new daughter and his new in-laws this is his new home he's a
17:59live-in son-in-law here now
18:00my voice shook with anger especially on the last words my father-in-law froze his face turned pale
18:06with shock i turned the camera toward derek and megan dad look this is your good son and his new
18:13family
18:13derek is this what you've done do you even care about me or your mom at all are you trying
18:20to drive
18:20me to my grave derek snapped he grabbed my phone turn it off stop filming just say what you filming
18:29just say what you want directly my father-in-law shouted i don't have a son like you before anyone
18:36could respond megan's parents came back through the door so derek married and had a child with my
18:43daughter that just proves he can't live with you you two should break it off clean don't even think
18:48about taking him away derek has been part of our family since he came here i've always treated him
18:53like my own son he and megan are happy together there's no way they're separating i turned to derek
18:58so what are you saying he stayed silent staring down at his shoes only after i kept looking at him
19:05did he slowly raise his head hesitating he finally asked do you still want me
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