I froze.
“What?”
Ethan swallowed.
“She wasn’t supposed to be my mother.”
The room went completely silent.
And before I could ask what that meant, my phone buzzed.
A message from an unknown number appeared on the screen.
One sentence.
I saw what happened in that bedroom. Meet me alone if you want the truth about Ethan and Margaret.
I looked at Ethan.
Then at the message.
Because suddenly I understood something much worse than my mother-in-law sleeping beside my husband.
Maybe Margaret wasn’t trying to take my husband away from me.
Maybe she had been protecting a secret that could destroy both of them.
TO BE CONTINUED
PART 3 TEASER: The stranger reveals what really happened on Ethan’s wedding night, why Margaret has controlled his life for decades, and the shocking connection that proves Ethan’s entire family story was built on a lie.