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After I Left, My Husband Learned the Truth

Feyikemi

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Naomi Reed spent three years waiting for a husband who never had time to see her. When she finally leaves without anger or explanation, Victor Hale assumes she will return - just like always. But as her silence stretches into weeks, Victor begins to uncover the truth about the marriage he neglected. By the time he realizes his mistake, Naomi is no longer the woman who waited. Winning her back will require more than regret _ it will require change.

Chapter 1 The Day She Signed the Papers

Naomi Reed signed the divorce papers with a steady hand.

The lawyer paused, watching her carefully, as if expecting her to hesitate. Most women did. Most cried, begged, or at least asked for time.

Naomi did none of that.

She placed the pen down neatly and pushed the documents forward.

"I'm finished," she said.

Across the desk, Victor Hale stiffened.

"What do you mean, you're finished?" he asked, his voice calm but edged with irritation.

Naomi lifted her eyes to him. Three years of marriage, and she could count on one hand the number of times he had looked at her with real attention.

"I mean I've signed," she replied. "There's nothing left to discuss."

Victor frowned. "You're leaving just like that?"

Just like that.

Naomi almost smiled.

If only he knew how long she had stayed.

That night, she packed alone.

She didn't take much - clothes, documents, a few books. The house echoed with silence, a silence she had grown used to while waiting for a husband who was rarely home.

She paused in the bedroom doorway, looking at the bed where she had slept alone more nights than not.

"I tried," she whispered softly, though no one was there to hear it.

When the door closed behind her, it did not slam.

It simply shut.

Victor noticed her absence three days later.

The house was clean. Too clean.

No lights left on.

No quiet footsteps behind him.

For the first time, unease crept into his chest.

He told himself it was temporary.

He would learn how wrong he was.

Victor Hale did not follow Naomi when she left the lawyer's office.

He remained seated long after the door closed behind her, his fingers tapping lightly against the polished table. The lawyer cleared his throat, uncomfortable with the silence.

"Mr. Hale," he said carefully, "if there's nothing else-"

"That's all," Victor interrupted.

He stood, straightened his jacket, and walked out without another word.

Outside, the city moved as usual. Cars honked. People laughed. Somewhere, a street musician played a slow, careless tune. Victor felt strangely disconnected from it all, as though something had shifted without his permission.

Naomi was gone.

He told himself it was temporary.

She had always been patient. She would calm down. She would come back once she realized she had overreacted.

That was what wives did.

Naomi checked into a small apartment on the other side of the city that evening.

It wasn't luxurious, but it was quiet. The windows faced a narrow street lined with trees just beginning to lose their leaves. She stood in the empty living room with her suitcase beside her and took a deep breath.

For the first time in years, the air felt light.

She sat on the floor, back against the wall, and closed her eyes.

There was no sadness.

Only exhaustion.

And beneath it, something fragile and unfamiliar-relief.

That night, Victor slept alone in a king-sized bed.

He stared at the ceiling for a long time, replaying Naomi's calm expression in his mind. Not angry. Not pleading. Just finished.

It unsettled him more than any argument ever had.

When morning came, he buried himself in work.

Meetings. Calls. Decisions that affected millions.

Yet, between one document and the next, a strange thought kept surfacing:

Why didn't she fight?

Naomi woke early the next day.

She made herself coffee and drank it slowly by the window, watching strangers pass below. No one here knew her. No one expected anything from her.

Her phone buzzed once.

A message from Victor.

We need to talk.

She stared at the screen for several seconds, then placed the phone face down on the table.

She did not reply.

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After I Left, My Husband Learned the Truth

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