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Chapter 4 

Tabitha 

“You stand there after admitting to setting 

up my then husband with his mistress and have 

the balls to accuse me of doing something to 

make him kill himself? I’ve always known you 

were full of shit, but this takes the cake.” I say. I 

stand and continue to laugh at times. 

“And you, the two people I thought were my 

friends, knew the whole time and never said a 

word. Did you hang out with them together?” I 

ask. The looks on their faces gave me my 

answer. I finally turned to the woman who had 

stolen everything from me. 

“You couldn’t let me have one thing could 

you? I always thought you were after me for 

some reason, but I wanted to think the best of 

you. Damn, was I ever wrong!” I start walking 

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toward the stairs. 

asks. 

“Tabitha, where are you going?” Hampton 

“To pack the things I have bought for myself 

and my parents‘ things. To hell with everything 

else.” I stop and take my engagement and 

wedding bands off. I throw them at Heather. 

“Here. You wanted them so badly. Now they’re 

yours along with all the rest of this shit. I’ll be 

gone within the hour.” 

I walked into the room that I shared with who 

I thought was the love of my life. Everywhere I 

look there are memories that I thought I would 

hold on to for a lifetime. Now all I see are the lies. 

The things I never noticed before come blaring 

forward. 

I grabbed all my clothes that Kyle felt were 

too cheap and put them into my old suitcase that 

he had stuffed in the back of the closet. I grab 

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my personal items and the pictures of my parents. My mother’s jewelry and my father’s 

pocket watch are the only things I kept of theirs. 

I pack it all away and head down the back stairs. 

I see Hampton standing in the kitchen, 

looking out the window. Once he hears me, he 

turns and looks at me. Sadness is all I can see in 

his eyes. I look and see that he’s holding an 

envelope in his hands. My name is on the front, 

printed in Kyle’s handwriting. 

“I found it in his office. Please don’t leave?” 

He asks. 

“I don’t have a reason to be here. He left me 

and didn’t even have the decency to tell me. 

Thank you for always treating me like I mattered. 

I’m leaving my phone here, so there won’t be a 

way to contact me.” I take the key to the house 

off my keychain and hand it to him. “Goodbye 

Hampton.” 

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I walk into the garage and get into my car. I bought this myself, and Kyle has no claim on it. 

He wanted us to keep our money separate. He paid all the bills, so all the money I made working 

was mine. I had saved a lot over the years so I 

would be ok for a while. I drive over to the hotel 

in town and get myself a room. 

Once I get in there, I pull out my laptop and 

pull up my insurance policies from work. I paid 

for these and was able to name the beneficiaries 

for them. I had a policy on Kyle for a million. 

dollars. It was always supposed to be the backup 

for what we had together. I had made sure that 

there were no clauses in there that would keep it 

from paying out. So the fact that he killed 

himself won’t be an issue with this policy. I can’t 

say that to the others. 

I know that if he went as far as forging my 

signature for a divorce he most definitely 

changed all the beneficiaries on his life 

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insurance. I wouldn’t get anything from them 

and since I was no longer his wife, the house and 

all that was in his accounts would go to Heather. 

Even though I know I’m on the policy, I bought it. 

I think I need to seek legal advice. The only 

person I think I can trust with this is Mr. Hendrix 

who was my parents‘ attorney. If anyone would 

be honest with me, it would be him. I can’t trust 

anyone who worked with Kyle at this point. 

Looking round the room, I feel lost. I have 

spent the last five years of my life trying to make. 

Kyle happy. I did everything a good southern 

woman should. Or at least that’s what I was 

taught. Kyle was very traditional in his beliefs, 

and I loved Kyle. That meant that I would do just 

about anything to ensure his happiness. Had I 

been blind to the fact that all of this time was a 

lie? Did Kyle only marry me because I was the 

idiot who wouldn’t notice all that he had going 

on? 

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It hits me then that Hampton had given me a 

letter from Kyle. Maybe it could shed some light 

on what was going on, or maybe it would only make things worse.