I wont mince words. Im your husbands mistress! Weve been seeing each other all these years. Yes! Dont look so shocked or faint on me
Emily was preparing dinner, her husband Thomas due home in an hour. Their ten-year-old daughter, Charlotte, was at dance class. Shed be back in half an hour, drop her bag by the door, and settle at the table, chattering about her friends, her progress, her teacher Emily smiled. Listening to her daughter had always been a joy.
The doorbell rang. Too early for Thomashe had his keys. Charlotte mustve forgotten hers again. Emily opened the door, but instead of her daughter, a young woman stood there.
I wont mince words. Im your husbands mistress. Weve been seeing each other all these years. Yes! Dont look so shocked or faint on me.
All these years? How long?
Three years. It suited me fine. Far easier to live alone and have a man who just visits.
No expenses, financial or otherwise. No laundry, no cooking, no cleaning up after him. And Ive no intention of changing that now.
I wouldnt even be here, but Im pregnant. An accident, but theres no going back now. Too late.
Emily remembered the years shed struggled to conceive. Thered been no issue with her, but Thomas? Theyd resorted to IVF. The first attempt failed, but the second brought Charlotte. Emily had even hoped for twinscommon with IVF. Now this.
Youll change nothing? Youll keep your visiting man and think hell be a visiting father?
No, not quite. Ill have a visiting husband and child.
Fascinating. How do you imagine that? The father raises the child but pops round so it can chat with its mother?
Exactly. I never wanted a child. This was an accident.
And Thomas told you he couldnt have children?
Well, clearly he can! I need to see the conditions my child will grow up in. Fairs fair.
Your daughter isnt his, yet he helps raise her. Now therell be his child, and the burden falls on you.
Love, I wont even invite you in. I dont even know your name, but your man doesnt live here anymore. Take his things. The rest doesnt concern me.
Emily moved to shut the door, but spotted Charlotte returning from class.
Mum, what was that? What child? And why isnt Dad my father?
You heard everything? Then its time you knew.
Mum, Im not a little girl. Im nearly eleven. Ill understand.
Emily told her everything.
Youre my daughter, but Dad loves you. Hes your legal father. We waited for you together.
And now hes waiting for another child, but you wont be its mother. I wont be its sister. Right?
Well yes. Youre right. And youre grown now. I dont want to live with Dad anymore.
Ill help you, Mum. Dont worry. Im big enough. Let him go. I love you, but that woman Let him be with her.
Thomas arrived right on schedule.
Whats happened? No welcome? No hug?
Usually, Charlotte ran to embrace him. Tonight, silence. She stayed in her room.
Emily, wheres Charlotte? Late at dance, or ill?
Your mistress came. Shes pregnant. With yours! Care to explain why she was here?
Emily, listenits my child. I cant abandon it.
And you know what shes proposing?
I do. She never wanted it, but We have Charlotte. Now therell be another. My child! Itll live with me.
Sure its yours? Remember your diagnosis?
Exceptions happen!
Brilliant. Go to its mother with your exception. Leave now. Fetch your things later.
No, Emily! You cant do this! They dont want me there. Im not needed not like that.
Youre not needed here either. Go.
What about Charlotte? Im her fathernot biologically, but Ive raised her. Whats wrong with my real child living with us? Its only fair.
Fair? Your mistress already schooled me on fairness. First, prove its yours. Then talk. Goodbye.
Emily divorced Thomas. He had to leavethe flat belonged to her parents. Theyd built a house but never transferred the flat to her. Not that it wouldve mattered in court.
Now Thomas had nowhere to go. The man who “just visited” was better for his mistress. She wouldnt change her lifestyle. Nor would she raise the child.
A mother-to-be with no intention of mothering. Shed play, have funnothing more. Sleepless nights, nappies, illnesses? Not part of her plan.
After the birth, she sued for child supportand lost. How she raises the child now, no one knows. Thomass diagnosis stood. No biological link was proven.
Legally, he has one daughter. But Charlotte wont speak to him. He pays support, begs for reconciliation, but Emily wants nothing to do with him.
Turns out, sitting on two chairs with one backside isnt so simple after all
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