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First Affair I Forgive, Second Affair I Abort And Vanished Part 1
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00:00Under the blinding flashes, I thought the cold champagne was the only ice in my perfect life.
00:04Then, the bridesmaid's hem lifted.
00:06Andrew Jenkins.
00:07I stared at the fresh black ink on her skin, the expensive champagne turning to bitter ash in my mouth.
00:15Andrew, I love you.
00:18I've loved you for years.
00:22Andrew's expression iced over.
00:24He glanced at me once, softening, then turned back to Jamie like a warning.
00:28Whatever he said, Jamie went pale.
00:30The band played, the wedding rolled on.
00:32By the next day, Jamie vanished from every feed.
00:35I told myself it was a filthy stunt.
00:37A few days later, a video landed on my phone.
00:40Andrew had Jamie pinned to a wall.
00:42Little tease.
00:43Where else did you tattoo my name?
00:47I stormed into the study.
00:50Andrew was on an online meeting.
00:55Greer, why are you here? Did you...
00:59Is it true?
01:00One second of panic told me everything.
01:04Greely, listen...
01:05Numb and shaking, I handed the divorce papers to my attorney.
01:09I turned around and headed for the airport to escape this filthy place.
01:12But Andrew stopped me as I arrived.
01:26She dared to provoke you.
01:28I punished her.
01:31And me, if you're not satisfied, kill me.
01:35But don't divorce me.
01:38Please, give me more chance.
01:40Cheating was never just once.
01:41It was zero or endless.
01:43But we had loved each other for ten years.
01:45Reason fought feeling and feeling won.
01:48Our love is only enough for me to forgive you once.
01:50If there's a next time.
01:52Even if you die in front of me, I won't forgive you again.
01:57It won't happen.
02:03Never again, Greer.
02:04I swear.
02:06After he dragged me back, Andrew spoiled me to a shocking degree.
02:10Half a year passed, and the wall between us finally began to crack.
02:15Then, on the day I learned I was pregnant, my phone buzzed with a new video.
02:22Jamie's belly was already showing on the screen.
02:24A prenatal report followed.
02:25Six months pregnant.
02:27The moment the first scandal ended, he had gone straight back to her.
02:31Seamless.
02:32Disgust surged at my throat.
02:34When my legs stopped shaking, I dug out the unsigned divorce agreement and drove straight to his company.
02:42Andrew, why are you with Jamie again?
02:44You know Greer's never gotten along with her.
02:46Last time Jamie exposed your affair, trying to replace Greer.
02:52Now she's pregnant, she'll get bolder.
02:54Aren't you afraid she'll pull it again?
02:55She won't dare.
02:56Not unless she wants to feel all four limbs break.
02:59And Greer?
03:00If she finds out, she won't forgive you twice.
03:02She won't find out.
03:03But if she does, I'll lock her up.
03:07Somewhere that has only us.
03:11My fingers crushed the divorce papers as I stepped back.
03:15I turned to leave.
03:17Jamie was walking out of the corridor.
03:20I couldn't let Andrew know I was hiding in the corridor.
03:26My pulse hammered so hard, it blurred my hearing.
03:50I jammed my fingers into my ears, but the sounds pushed through the walls, straight into the raw place inside
03:56my chest.
03:56I forced myself out of hiding.
04:01Andrew, tell me, who's better, me or Greer?
04:06Say it, if you don't, you don't get to keep going.
04:09Here?
04:10Of course you're better.
04:16Something cracked cleanly in my chest.
04:24Out of nowhere, my phone rang all of a sudden.
04:30Greer, are you home?
04:32If you are, it's time for your medicine.
04:34Don't secretly pour it out.
04:35When I was a kid, my family had been poor.
04:37Andrew had spent years hunting down specialists and custom nutritious herbal soup to build me up.
04:41Now, hearing his gentle reminder layered with that faint panting, I didn't know what to feel.
04:44Before I found an answer, Andrew sucked in a sharper breath.
04:48The call cut off.
05:08She's showing signs of miscarriage.
05:10Prep a toss pit, now.
05:13We don't have enough.
05:14What do you mean we don't have enough?
05:15The hospital's largest shareholder, Mr. Andrew, just came in with another patient.
05:19He had all the remaining doses transferred.
05:27Noise roared around me, but my mind snagged on that name like a rusted hook.
05:34Praying to something I didn't believe in.
05:41That woman, Jamie, began bleeding after a rough, harsh private incident.
05:48Her condition isn't serious.
05:50I asked them to spare even one dose.
05:53I couldn't hear what came after.
05:56All I felt was a hollow pull, like something small and precious slipped away from inside me, leaving only cold.
06:04I'm sorry.
06:05We couldn't save the baby.
06:12Greer, the chief said your labs came back.
06:15You're pregnant.
06:16Two months.
06:17That's true, right?
06:19Hospital shareholder.
06:21Pregnant Jamie.
06:22Five kits of life-saving medication, gone.
06:27That's amazing.
06:29I can't leave the office right now.
06:30But tonight, tonight we'll celebrate properly.
06:38I pulled out the crumpled divorce agreement and stared fixedly at the signature column.
06:47The next morning, I signed the discharge papers.
06:50In the VIP corridor, I stopped.
06:52Through the half-open door, I saw Andrew feeding Jamie spoon by spoon.
06:56It stabbed straight through me.
06:58When I was 16, bruised and starving in the rain, he had brought me warm porridge, cooling it with his
07:03breath.
07:04Those gentle eyes had felt like a promise.
07:06Now, those same hands fed the woman I couldn't stand.
07:11That evening, Andrew swept me up.
07:15We're having a baby.
07:16I bought the clothes, the toys.
07:19Tomorrow, the manager will set up the nursery.
07:21When the baby's born, we're going to be a happy family.
07:29Greer, I have to go handle something.
07:30I'm not coming back tonight.
07:34Ice spreading through my veins because I knew exactly where he was going.
07:38Jamie had always been afraid of thunder.
07:43The next morning, Andrew hosted a lavish celebration for my pregnancy.
07:50Tired?
07:51Sit for a bit.
07:52He left again.
07:55Ma'am, there's an emergency.
07:56I can't find Andrew.
07:58I followed her upstairs.
07:59The hallway outside the walk-in closet was empty until a strange sound flickered through the heavy oak door.
08:05My foot lifted to kick the wood.
08:06The doorknob suddenly started to turn.
08:21I waited until his footsteps faded down the grand staircase before slipping into the walk-in closet.
08:30You saw everything, didn't you?
08:33Even today is your pregnancy celebration.
08:35But all I have to do is curl my finger and Andrew loses control for me.
08:39I didn't say a word.
08:40I just turned and walked out.
08:42Another half hour passed before Andrew returned to the banquet.
08:45I was staring down at my phone when he came close.
08:47Jamie's message glared on the screen.
08:49I know you are outside the closet.
08:50Has he ever lost control for you like that?
08:53Greer?
08:54What are you looking at?
08:55I called your name a few times.
08:57All he had to do was glance down and he'd see the chat.
08:59My lungs locked.
09:02Why do you look so nervous?
09:03Are you scared I'll check your phone?
09:07Look at you.
09:08When have I ever checked your phone without your permission?
09:12Here.
09:16Tonight.
09:17Can you have dinner at home with me?
09:19Two days.
09:20I had two days left before I vanished overseas.
09:23I had to end this marriage.
09:25Andrew would never sign the divorce agreement clear-headed.
09:27But his tolerance for alcohol was terrible.
09:30Tonight I would get him drunk.
09:36Tonight I have to meet a business partner.
09:39Jamie's message had arrived just before this.
09:41Andrew will definitely come over to put ointment on me and sleep with me tonight.
09:44Sorry.
09:45He'll probably be all alone.
09:47What if I insist that you eat dinner with me tonight?
09:52Then.
09:53Of course I'm having dinner with my wife.
09:58So don't look so tense.
09:59Smile for me.
10:01Since I can't hold my liquor, you almost never make me drink.
10:05Are we celebrating?
10:07Yes.
10:13So you have to finish the whole thing.
10:25I don't care who it is.
10:28You're not answering.
10:29You promised you'd stay with me tonight.
10:34It's my assistant.
10:35If he's calling this late, it's the company.
10:36I can't stay for dinner.
10:50What's that?
10:53Things the madam said she doesn't want anymore.
10:59The clothes he'd made with his own hands for me.
11:02Yesterday, he had dragged them onto the closet floor for Jamie.
11:10Why did you throw those clothes away?
11:12Because I'm angry.
11:14Angry you went back on your word last night.
11:18It's my fault.
11:19I won't go to the office today.
11:21I'll make up for last night's dinner, okay?
11:22No, unless you make it up right now.
11:27Drink this.
11:29If you finish it, I won't be mad anymore.
11:31Okay.
11:32Get drunk, sign the divorce agreement, and then I leave.
11:36Because that morning, Jamie had mailed me a USB drive.
11:40Every file inside was Andrew and Jamie, in my home.
11:43This house was supposed to be ours.
11:45Now it was a museum of filth.
11:47In every corner I had once believed belonged to me, there were recordings of them clinging
11:51to each other.
11:53I'm bleeding again this morning.
11:54Come be with me.
11:55Now.
11:59Greer, I...
12:02Another emergency?
12:06Fine.
12:07Sign here, and I'll let you go.
12:09My flight was in two hours.
12:10This was my last chance to cut the cord before his obsession kicked in.
12:14Done.
12:15Greer, I'm leaving.
12:19He thought it was one of those ridiculous date IOUs I used to write when we were younger.
12:24He believed this was just another playful contract.
12:26At 16, he was the stranger who saved me.
12:29At 26, we promised never to betray each other.
12:31Today, one message about Jamie was enough to make him sprint without noticing he'd signed
12:36away his marriage.
12:37Andrew!
12:39Whatever it is, we'll talk when I get back.
12:44I wasn't going to wait.
12:45Anything you had, I could take.
12:48Your pride was always this husband.
12:50Sorry, now even he is mine.
13:08Who did this?
13:10Who dared damage my wedding portrait with Greer?
13:15It was the madam.
13:17Madam said to give you these.
13:31Get in here!
13:32Lock down every major route out of the city!
13:34Find Greer!
13:36Inside a town that's cloaked in silence.
13:43I stand here with you.
13:45Andrew, my stomach still hurts.
13:48That voice only poured gasoline on his rage.
13:50Jamie had crossed the one line that never allowed anyone to touch.
13:56Andrew sent us to take you to the hospital.
13:58Run.
14:00See?
14:00He can't stay away.
14:02For an abortion.
14:05Who are you talking about?
14:06He'd never let me do that!
14:07Greer sent you, didn't she?
14:08If you touch me, he'll kill you!
14:09Sir, we still have nothing.
14:11Greery, where had you gone?
14:13If you needed to disappear from a husband who could reach everywhere, where would you run?
14:18Check every mentor Greer has ever contacted.
14:21See who's running a high-clearance, classified government project.
14:24I had been in the sealed program long enough that days stopped having names.
14:28How are you holding up?
14:30The schedule is brutal.
14:33I'm fine.
14:36Exhaustion stole 98% of my attention, leaving almost no room to think about Andrew.
14:42We brought in an outside expert to speed things up.
14:44You'll be his point of contact.
14:47Okay.
14:49I regretted it the second the door opened.
14:52The expert was Andrew's uncle, Richard Jenkins.
14:55In 10 years with Andrew, I had met Richard three times.
14:59The first time, he had looked me up and down and called me trash.
15:07The second time, he refused to mentor me, claiming I climbed in through connections.
15:11And now, the third time.
15:13So Andrew's business is big enough now that he can invest in a national-level project
15:18and conveniently shove in a little wife as a favor?
15:20Richard, this is a workplace.
15:23Put your personal issues away.
15:25If you slow the experiment down, I have plenty of ugly things I can say back.
15:29He'd expected weakness, not this.
15:32For the first time, he saw me, not Andrew's ex.
15:36That afternoon, I walked him through the facility, explaining every checkpoint and the improvements
15:39we'd built after 100 prior runs.
15:41He watched me, his sneer gone.
15:45You memorized that pretty well.
15:47But his voice was softer.
15:49I'd seen him write down every one of my notes.
15:53Richard, you like me, huh?
15:55This is your way of getting my attention?
15:57What are you talking about?
15:58Let go.
15:58Your method's clumsy, but I'll admit it worked.
16:07The collaboration ran smoothly, and the three-year plan finished in one year.
16:13Then, a piece of news reached the site.
16:16Andrew had remarried.
16:18No grief, no anger.
16:20All the lingering obsession faded away in an instant.
16:24I was finally free from the shadow of my past.
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