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On the way to pick up a client, I opened the Waze installed on my Tesla.
A coquettish female voice came through the speakers.
Hi there! Your darling Lila’s here to join you for our little road trip together-just like we’re eloping!”
slammed the brakes so hard I nearly kissed the steering wheel, but that voice kept going.
Oh look, there’s that cute little grocery store where they sell those cookies I’m obsessed with. Pretty please
uy some for me?”
My blood ran cold. I grabbed my phone and called my husband. “Have you been driving Tesla lately?”
lis voice was casual. “Yeah, my car broke down a few days ago. Why? Something wrong?”
forced a smile into my voice. “Nah, all good.”
ut after I hung up, I made a U-turn straight to his company…
rarely showed up at Jasper’s office-I’d always believed that trust was the foundation of any marriage.
didn’t want to doubt Jasper, but that creepy GPS message kept playing on repeat in my head.
o there I was, sitting in his office, asking HR to pull the files on every female employee they’d hired ecently, when Jasper walked in.
Hey there, beautiful.”
He settled into the chair across from me with that easy grin. “Checking up on me now?”
So what’d you find?”
If you come up empty handed, you owe me big time,” Jasper said, drumming his fingers on the desk like he lidn’t have a care in the world. “I’m talking skydiving. You and me.”
Looking at his completely relaxed expression, I started wondering if maybe I was being paranoid.
HR handed over all the files-nothing suspicious, and not a single new hire named Lila.
Was I seriously overthinking this?
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I pushed the stack toward him and met his amused eyes with a sigh.
“Just doing my due diligence.”
“If this bothers you, I won’t pull stuff like this anymore.”
Jasper immediately went into damage control mode. “Are you kidding? My wife caring about me? That’s the best thing I could ask for.”
That was just Jasper-gentle with me no matter what.
Even though he was a total boss at work, he turned into this sweet guy around me. Even when I screwed up
he’d be the first to apologize, always making sure I felt loved.
I shouldn’t be doubting him.
I followed Jasper home, watching him head to the kitchen with groceries.
His phone started buzzing on the counter.
I was just about to call out to him when I caught the name on the screen.
My breath hitched as I picked up the phone and hit answer.
That same familiar voice poured through the speaker.
‘Jasper, babe! Your girl Lila’s counting on you to close that big deal for my quarterly numbers! My boss otally praised me today, so I definitely owe you dinner.”
My heart clenched.
The voice continued with a laugh: “I heard through the grapevine that wifey came by for an inspection today. Give me the tea-how’d that go?”
The contact was saved as “Sunset Winery Lila.”
Aand she was calling my husband… “babe?”
Even the old-timers who’d been with the company since day one called him “Mr. Whitmore,” and the closest friends might go with “Jasper.”
No one talked to him like this.
But here she was.
“Babe?”
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“Why aren’t you answering me?”
“Bad signal?”
The call suddenly cut off.
I stood there, face drained of color, staring at Jasper still bustling around in the kitchen.
Then it hit me-Jasper had been getting into wine lately, and our company portfolio had mysteriously added a winery that made zero business sense.
I’d asked him about the strategic shift at the time.
All Jasper had said was: “Doesn’t matter what industry it is-if there’s money on the table, I want in.”
He’d looked at me with those warm eyes. “I want to give my wife the best life possible, make her the happiest woman alive.”
Back then I was on cloud nine with happiness, but now it felt like plummeting from thirty thousand feet-my heart, once so full of hope and love for him, shattered into pieces on the ground.
Jasper.
How far had things gone with her?
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