Brian had responded angry that she was waiting too long.
And then Lauren said a phrase that I still can’t forget today.
When everything is in my name, George will stop being a problem.
I was paralyzed.
Over the past few months, Lauren had really talked constantly about my will.
In addition, I had begun to personally organize my heart medications. Two weeks earlier, my car’s brakes had also failed.
At the time, I thought it was a coincidence.
After that night, not anymore.
Emily looked down.
“Mr. George, I need this job a lot. I still haven’t managed to raise all the money for my mother’s operation. But if I kept quiet and something happened to you, I would never forgive myself.
I looked at that young man.
Lauren humiliated her every day.
He mocked his weight, his clothes and his poverty.
And now it was precisely Emily who was risking the job she needed so much to protect me.
The next morning I called my lawyer, Robert.
Within a few days, what we discovered turned out to be even worse.
Brian was not Lauren’s cousin.
I had been her lover long before she met me.
Over the past year, Lauren had transferred over a hundred thousand dollars from my accounts to different bank accounts.
I had also prepared documents with which I intended to gain full control over my finances and my medical decisions.
I immediately called my children.
Sarah came first.
When I opened the door, he hugged me.
“Dad, I just wanted you to be safe.
At the time I understood that for months I had taken away from me the people who really loved me while defending a woman who only saw me as a property.
When Lauren came home that night, she walked into the room and saw me sitting there with Sarah, Mike, my lawyer and Emily.
His expression changed immediately.
He looked straight at Emily.
Did you tell him?
Emily paled.
But this time he didn’t lower his head.
“Yes.
Lauren laughed.
Do you think he’s going to believe you? You’re nothing but a housekeeper.
I stood up.
“Not anymore.
Lauren turned to me.
I took off my ring and left it on the table.
You can pick up your clothes. The lawyers will take care of the rest.
That day our marriage ended.
But my story is not.
When all legal matters were finally resolved, I paid the money missing for Emily’s mother’s operation.
At first, Emily refused.
