My Son Invited Me to His Engagement Party — Then Introduced Me to the Woman Who Ruined My Marriage

“Can I get you something?” she asks softly. “Water?

Food?”

“No,” I manage. My own voice sounds strange in my ears. “I’m okay.”

I’m not okay.

I look at David, and I decide I need to break it to him.

He glances at her, then back at me.

His eyes are worried but he nods.

“Yeah,” he says. “We’ll be right back. She just got a little lightheaded.”

He helps me up and steers me down the hallway into his bedroom.

It’s small, messy, very him. He shuts the door.

I take a breath, lean against the wall, then straighten up. I feel like I’m about to kick a hornet’s nest.

“David,” I say slowly, “do you understand that your fiancée is the same woman your father cheated on me with?”

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