I Cared for My Husband’s Mom for Five Months After Surgery While He Was Cheating – So I Taught Him a Lesson by Taking What He Valued Most

I hired a moving company that came the following morning.

Julia was already resting in the new care suite, her window overlooking a small garden filled with red tulips and one confused-looking scarecrow.

Three days later, I returned to the house for the last of our things. I found Eric sitting on the bottom step of the staircase, looking at the floor as if it might answer him. He didn’t look up when I came in.

“You moved her,” he said.

“I moved all of us.

You just didn’t notice any of it until we were gone.”

“She hasn’t returned my calls, Penelope,” he said, dragging a hand down his face.

“She’s my mother, and I allowed her to stay here!”

“I cared for her, Eric! And I was your wife. Liana is your daughter, Leo is your son, but that didn’t stop you from sneaking around, did it?”

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