My birthday, when he told me he’d been called into work for an emergency.
That evening, I had blown out the candles alone.
I thought he was simply exhausted from working so hard.
But in reality, he was with another woman.
“And the bedroom photograph?”
Ben answered.
“It was staged. Mike wanted the photograph to somehow appear on his phone, as though someone had sent him evidence of his wife’s affair. Daniel was supposed to be the other man.”
I stared at Daniel.
“And you agreed to this?”
He lowered his head.
“At first, yes. Mike convinced me you really were cheating on him and that this was just a way to make you confess. But later, I realized he was using us.”
“You’ve been to our children’s birthday parties. You’ve sat at our dinner table. How could you do this?”
Tears filled Daniel’s eyes.
