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My Cheating Boyfriend Got His Mistress Pregnant
My Cheating Boyfriend Got His Mistress Pregnant

My Cheating Boyfriend Got His Mistress Pregnant

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The turkey breast sits on my cutting board, already cold. I've been staring at it for ten minutes, knife suspended in my hand, waiting for a text that won't come. My phone buzzes. Finally. "Nell, I'm so sorry." Zayne's voice carries that practiced exhaustion I've heard too many times lately. "Crisis at the office. I have to pull an all-nighter." I press the phone tighter against my ear, listening past his words. No keyboard clicks. No muffled voices. Just silence, clean and hollow.

Chapter 1 of My Cheating Boyfriend Got His Mistress Pregnant

The turkey breast sits on my cutting board, already cold. I've been staring at it for ten minutes, knife suspended in my hand, waiting for a text that won't come.

My phone buzzes. Finally.

"Nell, I'm so sorry." Zayne's voice carries that practiced exhaustion I've heard too many times lately. "Crisis at the office. I have to pull an all-nighter."

I press the phone tighter against my ear, listening past his words. No keyboard clicks. No muffled voices. Just silence, clean and hollow.

"On Thanksgiving?"

"You know how it is." He sighs, and I can picture him running his hand through his hair, that gesture he uses when he wants sympathy. "But hey, I ordered you something. DoorDash should be there in twenty. Chipotle bowl, extra guac. My treat."

My treat. As if I should be grateful.

"Zayne, I made dinner."

"I know, babe, and I feel terrible. But we're saving for our future, remember? Can't be throwing money around on fancy restaurants when we've got goals."

Our future. Our goals. Words he wields like shields, deflecting every question about why his credit card gets declined at Target but he somehow always has cash for his gym membership.

"Right," I say. "Our future."

He doesn't catch the edge in my voice. He never does.

After we hang up, I stand in my kitchen—modest by design, not necessity—and feel something crack inside my chest. The Chipotle bowl arrives exactly on time. I stare at the brown bag, at the receipt stapled to the top. $12.47.

Twelve dollars and forty-seven cents for Thanksgiving dinner.

I grab my coat.

Midtown Manhattan glitters with that particular November cold that bites through wool and settles in your bones. I walk without direction, just movement, anything to escape the apartment that suddenly feels too small, too full of lies I've been telling myself.

The crowds thin as I turn onto West 51st. My breath fogs in front of me. I'm about to turn back when I see it—Le Bernardin, its windows glowing warm against the darkness.

And there, framed in the glass like a painting I never wanted to see, sits Zayne.

He's laughing. His head thrown back, throat exposed, the way he used to laugh with me before laughter became something he rationed. Across from him, a woman with dark hair twisted into an elegant knot leans forward, her hand covering his on the white tablecloth.

Salma Davis. The intern from his office, the one he mentioned exactly once, dismissively, as if she were furniture.

I watch him lift her hand to his lips. Watch the sommelier present a bottle—the label catches the light, something vintage, something that costs more than our rent. Watch Zayne nod approval like he was born to it, like he didn't tell me three weeks ago that we couldn't afford to replace my broken coffee maker.

The cold seeps through my coat, but I can't move. Can't look away from this alternate version of my boyfriend, this man who knows how to order champagne and kiss hands and smile like the world owes him everything.

My phone is in my hand before I realize I've reached for it. I scroll through contacts with numb fingers until I find the name I need.

Ambrose answers on the first ring.

"Nellie?" His voice carries concern before I've said a word. "What's wrong?"

"Can you—" My voice cracks. I swallow, try again. "Can you come get me?"

"Where are you?"

"West 51st. Near—"

"I'm leaving now."

No questions. No hesitation. Just certainty, solid as bedrock.

Twenty minutes later, a town car pulls up to the curb. Ambrose steps out, still in his suit from whatever family obligation I've pulled him from, and the look on his face when he sees me makes something in my chest twist differently than before.

"Nellie." He shrugs off his coat, drapes it over my shoulders. It smells like cedar and something expensive, something real. "You're freezing."

"He's in there." I gesture toward the restaurant, but I can't look again. "With her."

Ambrose's jaw tightens. His hand finds the small of my back, steady and warm. "Let's go."

The bistro he takes me to is quiet, tucked away on a side street I've never noticed. Private booths, soft lighting, the kind of place that exists for people who need to fall apart without an audience.

I tell him everything. The cancelled plans, the Chipotle bowl, the window, the champagne. Words spill out of me like blood from a wound I didn't know I had.

Ambrose listens. Doesn't interrupt, doesn't offer platitudes. Just listens with those dark eyes that have always seen too much, that are seeing me now in a way that makes me realize—

He's always looked at me like this. Like I matter. Like I'm worth more than twelve dollars and forty-seven cents.

"You deserve better," he says finally, and his voice carries something I've never let myself hear before.

"I know," I whisper.

And for the first time in two years, I actually believe it.

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