The Divorce That Freed Me

to celebrate my husband Richard' s

mistress, Chloe, and their son, Leo, brazenly anno

hissed warnings to me not to "make a scene." My dignity was shattered

d? You have embarrassed this family, Ava," made it perfectly clear: my humiliation was the real scandal. Ric

broke again as he, his mother, and his conniving mistress conspired to force me into acceptance, threatening my v

ard and pretend we were one big, happy family? The sheer audacity, the cold calcu

his cruel son' s "innocent" lie-a cold, hard clarity washed over me. I looked