The Secret in My Husband’s Sofa Chapter 09

The Secret in My Husband’s Sofa Chapter 09 The Aftermath

The court’s verdict came swiftly.

Adrian was ordered to walk away with nothing for cohabiting with another woman during the marriage and conspiring to harm a minor. The plot on the recording, though never carried out, was serious enough to earn him an 18-month prison sentence.

Vivian, as an accomplice and for actively breaking up another family, received a one-year prison sentence.

After the verdict came down, Charles and Hazel disowned Adrian on the spot.

They looked like they’d aged ten years overnight. By the time they walked out of the courthouse, neither of them could stand up straight.

They didn’t spare Adrian another glance. They turned to me instead, heads bowed in apology, voices choking. “We’re so sorry. We failed as parents, and you paid the price.”

Vivian’s fate was even bleaker.

She didn’t just lose her job. The company also went after her for leaking trade secrets.

It turned out she’d been using her job to quietly sell my company’s client list to competitors for a long time.

Even after her sentence ended, she’d be branded an industry pariah, with nowhere left to turn.

Adrian was having a rough time behind bars.

His cellmates learned what he’d done and held him in pure contempt. Nobody wanted anything to do with him.

He wrote me letters claiming he’d seen the error of his ways. He begged me to forgive him for our daughter’s sake, saying he’d give up everything just for one chance to see her.

I tossed the letters in the trash.

Some hurts couldn’t be wiped clean by a single “sorry”.

I brought the baby home, and Mom and Dad helped me look after her.

My daughter was healthy, breaking into giggles every time she saw me.

Every time I held her, I couldn’t help thinking back to those dark, suffocating days.

I remembered the nerves of planting cameras behind the couch, the chill that ran through me when I heard the recording, and the gut-wrenching pain of faking cold-heartedness back at the hospital.

But now, with this warm little life tucked in my arms, I knew every bit of it had been worth it.

Sunlight spilled through the window onto the floor, and her laughter rang out as clear as silver bells.

I pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead and made a silent promise. “Don’t be afraid. Mommy will always be there to protect you.”

As for the shadows of those people and what they had done, the court’s verdict had already wiped them out of our lives for good.

For the rest of my life, all I wanted was to raise my daughter well and give her a clean, warm future ahead.