BACK OFF EX-HUSBAND, I'M MARRIED TO YOUR RIVAL NOW.

In the fifth year of my marriage, on the day of the Gates family banquet, I asked my husband for a divorce.

“What? You want to divorce me, all because I acted like Lill’s husband?” Richard asked, frowning in confusion.

“Lilly. How affectionately he said her name,” I said to myself, smiling. Lillian was his brother’s wife.

I smiled coldly. “I have had enough of these two pretenders. Yeah. That’s why.”

Two days ago, on what was supposed to be our fifth wedding anniversary, I had planned to surprise Richard, so I took a flight to the city where he was working. Instead of the warm reunion I had expected, I overheard him chatting with his friends.

“Richard, I really think you are being unfair to your wife, running off every year on your anniversary? That’s not right at all. Your wife has been nothing but good to you. So why treat her this way?”

My husband, who was usually composed and gentlemanly, looked disturbed. “You think I want this for myself too? If I don’t avoid her, then she will never believe I haven’t touched her for the five years we’ve been married. That’s the only way to convince her.

“She? You mean Lillian? Richard, are you out of your mind? Don’t tell me you have not had sex with your wife for years because of Lillian? Are you going to keep pining for her even though she’s married to your brother, and they already have a child together?”

“And what about your wife? You keep taking her for granted over and over again, because you are obsessed with your brother’s wife? Ain’t you afraid that your wife’s powerful family will come after you, once she complains about you to them?”

Richard snorted. “They won’t,” he said confidently, rubbing his hands together. “She married me, even though they were against the marriage. And she has not spoken to them for years. I lied to my wife about being impotent just to avoid touching her. I also paid the doctor to write a fake medical report for me.”

I almost fell to the ground. Richard had been lying to me all these years about being impotent? While secretly having an affair with his brother’s wife. I walked away quietly, my feet shaking and my fingers trembling.

I had suspected Richard was cheating on me. I had even asked around and tried to find out who the other woman was, but no one was willing to talk to me. I had guessed many possibilities, but never in my wildest dreams had I thought it would be Lillian, my sister-in-law. His own brother’s wife.

The same person I had complained to about my husband’s suspicious behavior was the same person he was cheating on me with. How worse could my life get?

When I left the club, the sky opened up. I did not react as the rain drenched me; I was broken beyond words.

That same night, I took a flight