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Secrets at the office
10 stories
He confessed, he apologized, he swore it was over and strictly professional now. So why did my whole body wake me at two in the morning?
My husband invented a hobby so dull I never thought to question it. Strolling the aisles of a wholesale store with a coworker. Until I noticed one strange rule.
He swore the account was empty when the heating bill came due. Then a payment app I barely used showed me exactly where his money had been going.
He forgot his phone charger before his night shift, so I drove it over at one in the morning. I never made it to his desk.
One unknown number, dialed all day, every day. So I did the simplest thing anyone never thinks to do. I called it myself.
My husband spent fifteen years saying ink was for people who couldn't commit. Then one rainy Tuesday he came home with a tattoo, and a story that didn't quite close.
My team works remotely, so I live inside our chat app. One Saturday, half-asleep, I noticed a colleague go active at 4 a.m. Then I noticed who else did.
She swore she could never cheat, with a conviction that should have settled the matter. Three days later, my phone buzzed with proof that it didn't.
My husband swore he barely knew her. Then a notification lit up his phone, and the whole company watched her tell the truth for him.
He told me he would be right back. I believed him, the way you believe a man who has spent twenty years learning how to look trustworthy.