Chapter 62

Chapter 61 Karen’s heart skipped a beat, wondering why he was bringing this up after so many years. She could only think of one reason.

Immediately, she put on a mask of confusion to hide her nervousness. “Excuse me?”

“You heard me,” Kris insisted, his gaze uncompromising and demanding.

“Did you finally show those pictures to Thalassa? What did she say? She claimed that they were fake, didn’t she?” Karen snapped. “And you believed her?”

“What she told me doesn’t matter,” Kris ground out. “Just answer the damn question.”

“I don’t like how you’re talking to me, Kris. Let’s talk later when you’re calmer,” she said, attempting to sit back down at the dresser, but Kris grabbed her by the arm.

“You’re not going anywhere until you answer my question. Where did you get these photos from?” he hissed. Karen’s heart raced. Why was he acting like this? Had he believed Thalassa already?

“Exactly what your mother told you when she gave them to you,” she retorted, trying to wriggle her arm from his hold. “You’re hurting me.‘

Kris let go of her arm but still stood firmly in front of her as he sneered, “Don’t drag my mother into this. You were the one who gave her the pictures to give to me because you didn’t have the courage to give them to me yourself. Wasn’t that what you told me when I asked you later? So tell me right now, where did you get them?”

“I took them myself!” Karen lashed out. “I took them because I couldn’t stand seeing how Thalassa was making al fool out of you even on the night before your wedding. Didn’t I tell you that? Despite everything, she was my friend, and I felt like I was betraying her. I did it for you, so why are you asking me about it like I did something wrong”

“How come she didn’t see you taking the pictures?” Kris demanded.

“Because I hid. But even if she saw me, she didn’t care because she didn’t think I would ever tell you the truth. That’s how shameless she was.”

Kris turned away from her, shoving his hand furiously into his hair. He didn’t know what he’d expected to achieve she by confronting Karen. If Karen had truly made it all up like Thalassa had claimed, then there was no way would admit it.

“I can’t believe this,” Karen said behind him. “Didn’t you have those pictures verified by three professionals? How could you have allowed that woman to convince you that they’re fake? And how could you talk to me and treat me like this? I’m your wife.”

Exasperated, Kris turned and stormed out of the room, ignoring Karen’s calls behind him. He felt furious and agitated with himself.

Karen was right. The fact that he’d had those pictures verified should’ve been enough to withstand his doubts, but why did he still feel like something was amiss?

No matter what, he had to get to the bottom of this.

Later that evening at Thalassa and Luisa’s house, Thalassa had just narrated the confrontation she and Kris had in her office to Luisa and Millie, and both women were furious.

1/3 +25 BONUS Chapletel “So Kris hates you because he thinks you cheated on him because of a picture that’s obviously fake?” Millie asked in bewilderment.

“He’s obviously an idiot,” Luisa fumed as she shot to her feet. “How could he have allowed them to fool him with that picture?

Either that, or he must be lying about having those pictures checked. If he’d really done that, then he would’ve realized that the pictures were fake.”

“No, he wouldn’t have found out anything,” Thalassa said.

Luisa frowned. “What do you mean?”

“He wouldn’t have found anything because those pictures are real,” Thalassa explained calmly.

Luisa and Millie were stunned as they looked at each other, but Luisa was the one with enough boldness to ask the question on both of their minds.

“Are you...are you saying that it’s true that you cheated on Kris?” Luisa asked tentatively.

“No, I never cheated on him. I’m just saying that the pictures are real. The woman in those pictures is me.”

Luisa’sank back beside Thalassa in confusion. “What do you mean?”

Thalassa narrated everything that happened on the night before the wedding. At least, everything she remembered; how Karen had lured her to the nightclub, how she’d suddenly gotten groggy, and how she didn’t remember anything else.

“You mean that bitch drugged you and set you up with some guy just so she could take pictures and break your wedding?” Luisa said, shock and rage mixing in her voice.

“That woman is even more vile than I thought. She’s worse than a snake. How could she have called herself your best friend and still done something like that to you?” Millie added.

Thalassa felt her chest squeeze painfully. After everything she knew about Karen, this shouldn’t have come as a shock to her, and it shouldn’t hurt this much. But it hurt.

It hurt so much to think that she’d considered someone like Karen her best friend for such a long time, oblivious in her foolishness, not knowing the kind of evil intentions her supposed ‘best friend‘ harbored against her.

“But I don’t get it,” Millie’s forehead squeezed with confusion. “Why did Kris wait so long to show those pictures to you? Why did he never confront you about them during your marriage?”

“Because he wanted me to confess to them myself,” Thalassa mused.

During their marriage, every time she’d demanded to know why he’d changed so much and what she had done to deserve his mistreatment, he would look her dead in the eyes and say, ‘I don’t know. You tell me, Thalassa. What have you done?‘

It all made perfect sense now. He never confronted her with the pictures because he’d been waiting for her to confess herself.

Confess and beg for forgiveness for something she never even did. Then he would’ve probably divorced her after making her suffer.

“He married me for revenge. To make me suffer,” She said as the realization occurred to her. She felt even more páined.

“And all because of Karen. What are we going to do to that bitch? She can’t just get away with paying a man to rape you just so she could-”

As soon as the word fell out of Luisa’s mouth, all of them froze, especially Thalassa, who felt rage bubbling through her.

Chapter ol “What did you say?”

+25 BONUS Luisa was too stunned to repeat what she said. It was Millie who spoke, her voice hesitant.

“Lassa, what if Karen didn’t just take a picture of you naked with that man? What if she allowed that man to...have his way with you?”