My Husband Thinks His New Mistress Is A Psycho Stalker Who Just Ruined His Career. He Does Not Know I Am The One Who Hired Her And Wrote The Script. Is It Wrong To Watch Him Crumble From The Front Row?
The Fake Pregnancy
“Baby? What baby?”
Natalie put her hand on her stomach. The fake bump pressed against her dress.
“I’m pregnant,”
she said.
“9 weeks. Jay is the father. He told me he was going to leave his wife and raise this baby with me, but then he stopped returning my calls. He blocked my number. He pretended like I didn’t exist.”
The room exploded. Jay’s mother started crying. His father was yelling about how he didn’t raise his son to be a cheater. His aunts were whispering furiously to each other. His cousins had abandoned their card game and were filming everything on their phones.
“This isn’t happening,”
Jay kept saying.
“This isn’t happening. She’s lying. She’s crazy. Someone please believe me!”
“I believe you,”
his uncle said.
“Like I believed your brother when he said the same thing about his first wife. Like I believed your father when he said the same thing about the secretary. You Wallace men are all the same. You can’t keep your pants zipped and then you blame the women for being crazy.”
“Uncle Dario, this is different!”
“It’s not different. It’s never different.”
Natalie was still standing in the middle of the room with tears streaming down her face.
“I gave you everything,”
she said to Jay.
“I believed every word you said, and you threw me away like garbage. You threw our baby away like garbage.”
“There is no baby!”
Jay shouted.
“You’re not pregnant! This is all fake! You’re doing this to ruin my life!”
“Why would I ruin my own life just to hurt you?”
“I’m pregnant, Jay. I took three tests. I went to the doctor. This is real. This is happening and you need to take responsibility.”
The Mother’s Judgment
Jay’s mother stepped forward. Her face was wet with tears and her hands were shaking.
“Is this true, Jay? Did you cheat on Viola? Did you get this woman pregnant?”
“Mom, please. You know me. You know I would never…”
“I don’t know anything anymore. I don’t know who you are. The son I raised would never do something like this.”
“I’m the same person I’ve always been.”
“No. The son I raised had integrity. The son I raised respected his wife. The son I raised would look me in the eye and tell me the truth.”
She grabbed his face with both hands.
“Look at me, Jay. Look at me and tell me the truth. Did you cheat on Viola?”
Jay’s mouth opened. Nothing came out. His silence was louder than any confession. His mother dropped her hands and stepped back.
“Oh my god,”
she whispered.
“Oh my god, it’s true.”
“Mom, don’t…”
She held up her hand.
“Don’t say another word to me. I can’t even look at you right now.”
She walked out of the room, and his father followed her. I could hear her sobbing in the kitchen.
Jay stood there with his whole family staring at him like he was a stranger. His brother wouldn’t look at him. His aunts were shaking their heads in disgust. His cousins were still filming. And Natalie was standing in the middle of it all with her hand on her fake baby bump and tears running down her face.
“I trusted you,”
she said quietly.
“I trusted you and you destroyed me.”
“Natalie, please just stop. Please just stop.”
“I can’t stop. I can’t stop thinking about you. I can’t stop loving you. Even after everything you did to me, I still love you. What does that say about me? What kind of pathetic person falls in love with a married man and then begs him to love her back?”
She turned to face me.
“And you… poor Viola. You had no idea, did you? You had no idea your husband was sneaking around behind your back, making plans with another woman, telling her he was going to leave you? You trusted him and he betrayed you, just like he betrayed me.”
I let myself cry real tears. Not because I was sad, but because this was the moment I had been waiting for.
“I didn’t know,”
I said, my voice small and broken.
“I didn’t know about any of this.”
“Of course you didn’t. Men like Jay are good at hiding things. They’re good at lying and manipulating and making you feel like you’re the crazy one. But you’re not crazy, Viola.”
“I’m not crazy,”
“He’s the one who did this. He’s the one who destroyed both of us.”
“Jay grabbed Natalie’s arm.”
“Stop it! Stop talking to her! Stop talking to anyone! You’ve done enough damage!”
“Let go of me!”
“Not until you admit you’re lying! Not until you tell everyone the truth!”
“I am telling the truth! Everything I said is true. You cheated on your wife. You got me pregnant. You promised me a future and then you disappeared.”
“The baby isn’t real! I know it isn’t real! You’re wearing a pillow under your dress!”
Natalie slapped him so hard the sound echoed through the room.
“How dare you,”
she screamed.
“How dare you accuse me of faking a pregnancy! What kind of monster do you think I am?”
“The kind of monster who shows up at a family dinner to ruin my life!”
“You ruined your own life, Jay. You ruined it the moment you decided to cheat on your wife. I’m just making sure everyone knows what kind of man you really are.”
The room was chaos. Everyone was yelling. Jay’s father came back from the kitchen shouting about how Jay had disgraced the family. And Jay was standing in the middle of it all, looking like his whole world had collapsed around him. Because it had.
