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  • 7/5/2025
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00:00My name is Rachel Thomas. I used to think I had it all figured out, love, life, the kind of future
00:06I wanted. I married David, a quiet, unassuming man I met during my senior year at college.
00:13He wasn't flashy. He didn't dress like someone who owned anything more than what he carried in
00:18his car. He was a software guy, smart, nerdy, and completely forgettable to the world outside.
00:24But he was kind to me. Too kind. When we got married, I told myself it didn't matter that
00:30David wasn't ambitious in the traditional way. I was the one who wanted the big house,
00:35the designer bags, the respectable life. He, on the other hand, worked from home on his laptop,
00:42often in joggers and worn-out tees. His job? Freelance coding, he said. I never pushed too hard.
00:49It paid the bills, barely, and he never acted like money mattered to him. At first, it was enough.
00:57I convinced my self-love was about comfort and friendship. And David was, without a doubt,
01:03my best friend. He brought me coffee in bed, remembered our anniversary every year,
01:09left sweet notes in my bag. But after five years of the same routine, I started to wonder what I had
01:15signed up for. My job as a senior executive assistant at a luxury design firm in San Francisco
01:21constantly put me around wealthy, well-dressed, successful men. The kind of men I used to dream
01:27about. The comparison started to eat away at me. I felt invisible next to the wives of my boss's
01:33colleagues. They had husbands who drove sports cars, talked about stock options, who could buy them
01:38anything without looking at the price tag. David still drove a beat-up Corolla. I began resenting him.
01:44Not for something he did, but for everything he wasn't. I started telling myself that I deserved
01:50more. Then came Jason. Jason Williams was a senior client liaison from a partner firm.
01:57Tall, charismatic, always dressed in tailored suits that looked like they cost more than our
02:03entire monthly rent. He flirted without shame and had this way of making me feel like I was seen.
02:10Really seen. At first, it was innocent, coffee breaks, after-hours meetings, some flirty texts.
02:16I told myself it was just fun, nothing serious. But you can't dance near the fire forever without
02:22getting burned. One night, during a late meeting that turned into drinks, which turned into dinner,
02:28which turned into a hotel room, I crossed a line I swore I never would. The next morning,
02:34I felt guilt but not enough to stop. The affair with Jason stretched for almost three months.
02:40I became someone I barely recognized. Lying, deleting messages, slipping out with excuses,
02:46pretending David's warm smile didn't make my stomach twist with shame. Still, David never
02:52suspected anything. He was always gentle, always patient. I figured, stupidly, that he was too naive
02:59to realize what was going on. But one evening, everything changed. David had made dinner like
03:05always. Pasta, garlic bread, and that wine I liked from Trader Joe's. He looked at me across the table
03:11with this calm expression, and then he said something that stopped my heart. I know about Jason. My fork
03:18clattered onto the plate. My entire body froze. What, what are you talking about? He didn't raise his voice.
03:25Didn't look angry. That's what made it worse. He just leaned back, folded his arms, and said,
03:32I've known for a while. You used to talk in your sleep when you were stressed.
03:36I wanted to shrink into the ground. I opened my mouth, then closed it, unable to speak.
03:42I didn't say anything, he continued, because I needed to know if you were going to tell me the truth.
03:48I'm sorry. I blurted, my voice trembling. David, I, I made a mistake. I didn't mean to hurt you.
03:56He nodded slowly. I believe that. But it wasn't just one mistake, was it? I started crying.
04:03There was no hiding now. Then he stood up, walked over to the kitchen counter, and picked up a folder.
04:09He placed it in front of me. Inside were printed screenshots of texts, emails, hotel reservations,
04:15all tied neatly to my name and Jason's. I didn't even know how he got access to that.
04:21David, how did you? He gave a half-smile. I'm not exactly just a freelance coder, Rachel.
04:28I never have been. What do you mean? I whispered. He took a deep breath and said words I will never
04:35forget. I'm the founder and majority owner of Solera Systems. I blinked. Solera Systems?
04:42That name sounded familiar. Then it hit me, the massive tech company that created one of the
04:48cybersecurity tools we used in our office. They'd recently been acquired for billions.
04:53You're lying, I said, shaking my head. I kept it from you on purpose. When I met you,
05:00I'd just sold my first company and wanted to disappear from the industry noise. I didn't want
05:06someone to love me because I had money or power. I wanted something real. I was speechless.
05:12I've always been watching, he said. Not just you. Jason. Your company. I even built a private
05:20monitoring system that flagged your devices when certain patterns emerged. Cheating patterns.
05:25So yeah, I know everything. I was beyond horrified. Not just because I'd been caught,
05:31but because I had misjudged this man, my husband, so completely. He was never a nobody. He was someone
05:39who had everything, but chose to live simply for me. And I destroyed it. What happens now? I asked
05:47quietly. He looked at me with sad eyes. That's up to you. But I've already spoken to a lawyer.
05:54Our prenup ensures you leave with what you came with. Nothing more. No. David, please.
06:00I'll let you stay until the end of the month, he said. After that, I'm moving forward. I begged.
06:07I cried. I fell to my knees. But David, for all his warmth, had already closed the door inside himself.
06:15The betrayal was too deep. True to his word, he let me stay a few more weeks. I watched him pack his
06:22things calmly, methodically. I thought maybe, just maybe, he'd change his mind. But he didn't.
06:27He walked out one morning, suitcase in hand, and left me alone in that apartment we once called home.
06:34Months passed. I heard through mutual friends that David had moved to Seattle.
06:39Bought a property on the waterfront. He launched another company, something in AI this time.
06:45Of course, it took off instantly. Investors flocked to him. He became a name again in the tech world.
06:52He even started dating a journalist, someone who interviewed him during a Forbes feature.
06:56As for Jason? He dumped me the second. He realized David had cut ties. Apparently, once I was no longer
07:03forbidden fruit, I wasn't interesting anymore. I lost everything. Now I live in a smaller apartment,
07:11working the same job, but everyone looks at me differently. Whispers. I can't blame them.
07:16I made my bed. I still dream about David sometimes. About his quiet kindness. The way he looked at me
07:24like I was the only person in the room. I ruined something beautiful, something rare. And the most
07:30painful part? I didn't lose him, because he stopped loving me. I lost him, because he finally loved
07:37himself enough to walk away.

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