I didn't say anything, but I hired a private detective.

I also asked Leo, who was good at computers, to find Tina's cloud backup password through her old phone.

It turned out that Tina, who had always been traditional, was really passionate.

After Tina and Max reconnected, their mutual attraction was like fire, very hot.

After the initial short period of testing, the fire burned more and more fiercely.

In just one year, Tina and Max went through the trial stage, the rekindled love, and the passion period. Now, they had various ways to have sex.

It was hard to imagine that Tina, who usually frowned and scolded me when I proposed to change the sex style, was actually willing to help Max...

Tina and Max even took lots of sex photos and videos.

It had been so many years since they graduated from college, but they were still maintaining the good habit of reviewing.

With such hard work, they should have taken the postgraduate entrance examination a long time ago!

I remained silent about all this and pretended I knew nothing.

But I was heartbroken and knew very well that our marriage was dead in name only.

Yuki was the only bond between Tina and me.

...

Yuki was growing, and I didn't want her to have an incomplete family.

So, I'd like to be honest with Tina on our wedding anniversary.

I was still foolishly hopeful. If Tina would end her affair, I might continue enduring her like the past few years.

A marriage in name only was not scary, and what was most scary was making Yuki sad.

I received a call from the principal of the kindergarten before I got off work in the afternoon. He told me that Yuki was sick.

I was in an important meeting at the time, so I called Tina in a hurry, but she didn't answer.

I had to hand down work to Leo, and then I drove to the kindergarten to pick up my daughter and went to the hospital.

After a time, Yuki had to hang a drip. We didn't get home until the evening.

After coxing Yuki to sleep, I checked my phone.

Tina did reply to me.

[Honey, I'm not going home tonight. My best friend is having her birthday, so I'm going to sleep at her house tonight.]

My face suddenly turned dark again. "Does she forget our wedding anniversary? Best friend? It's her best male friend, Max, right?"

I suddenly realized that all my thoughts were too naive.

How could a person change his habits?

Maybe because I became more tractable, Tina seemed more unscrupulous and cared less and less about my feelings.

So, I also changed my strategy.

In the early morning, when putting on makeup, Tina asked me as if she was testing or notifying me.

"Honey, it's Eric's birthday today. Max invited our family to have dinner at his house. Do you want to go?"

"Hmm? Okay!"

Tina suddenly stopped and looked a little surprised.

"Are you sure?"

I smiled. "Yeah, I haven't hung out with Max for a long time. It's Eric's birthday, so why not go and have some fun?"

Yuki's face wrinkled. "I don't want to go!"

"Why?" I was curious.

Yuki pouted. "Eric always bullies me at school, and he also instigates other children to bully me. He often pulls my hair and rips my skirt!"

I was suddenly angry.

Tina quickly said, "Yuki, Eric is playing with you. He likes you, and you should unite."

Yuki was unhappy.

"No, Mom likes Eric instead of me. Last time you picked me up, you bought Eric a Transformer. I know it's over three thousand dollars. But you didn't even buy me a two-hundred-dollar doll!"

Tina glanced at me and quickly interrupted Yuki.

"I didn't buy the Transformer. That was... Oh, Eric's dad bought it and asked me to give it to Eric!"

Yuki was naive, and she believed it, but how could I believe it?

Tina's credit card was my secondary card. Her salary was only enough to buy clothes and cosmetics every month. I covered all the household expenses.

I checked the consumption records regularly over the past two years. One of the items was the consumption record at a toy store, and the amount was exactly three thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars.

I hugged Yuki and smiled.

"Yuki, I'll take you to the toy store later and buy you the doll you like, and then we pick out a gift for Eric, okay?"

Yuki nodded excitedly.

Max's family lived in the villa with nice surroundings.

When we got off, Max was obviously stunned when he saw Yuki and me, but he immediately smiled.

I also greeted Max with a smile.

Eric immediately became unhappy as soon as he saw Yuki.

"Dad, Ms. Green, why did you bring this little crybaby here?

"Doesn't Ms. Green come here by herself every time?"

Tina suddenly became embarrassed and unnatural.

Max quickly said, "Eric, don't talk nonsense. It's the first time that Ms. Green come here."

Eric was confused. "Didn't she come last week?"

Tina put her arm around my shoulders.

"It occurs to me that last time my colleague brought some specialties from her hometown. She happened to live in this community, so I gave some to Max when I passed by here."

Tina seemed to be trying hard to find something by my face.

"Honey, you wouldn't think too much, would you?"

I laughed and put my arm around Tina's shoulders. And in the flash of resentment from Max, I said, "How could it be? We've been friends for so many years."

The atmosphere suddenly became better.

But when I entered Max's house, I found there were two plates of steak and two red wine glasses on the dining table.

Max smiled. "I prepared this for my wife. The day when Eric was born was the day when my wife suffered. But she had to go out for something urgent, so I just left it here."

"Well, you really love each other."

As I spoke, I held Tina's hand.

I felt Tina pull out her hand but then stopped and held my hand tightly.

Max could drink a lot, and he kept urging me to drink.

The nanny took the two children to the audio-visual room on the second basement floor to watch a movie.

While I was chatting with Tina and Max, I was drinking, but I could clearly see from the reflection of the glass door of the sideboard that Max and Tina's feet were hooked together.

Max even took off his shoes and put his feet under Tina's skirt, rubbing Tina's black stockings.

I hated Tina and Max so much, and I wished I could kill them both!

Then, I got drunk. The low voices of two people came to my ears.

"He's asleep... He's snoring..."

"No... He's here...ah..."

"I've been drinking and I can't hold myself in anymore."

"No... Don't do it here..."

"It's exciting. I'll soon..."

I heard the sound of stockings being torn.