I Caught My Don Husband Cheating With My 18-Year Best Friend At The Car Chapter 07

I Caught My Don Husband Cheating With My 18-Year Best Friend At The Car Chapter 07

Lucy wiped the tears off her face.

“Mia, I really want us to stay friends. We’ve always liked the same stuff, we have matching everything…”

I stared at her, stunned.

Next thing I knew, my hand was connecting with her face.

The slap rang out sharp and clear in the empty theater lobby.

How dare she say that to me.

Lucy transferred to my elementary class one autumn.

No kid would sit beside her by the classroom door.

Nasty rumors swirled about her mother.

Word spread that she’d torn apart a family.

The man had abandoned them both afterward.

Kids even whispered anyone close to Lucy would get cursed with misfortune.

But I’d see her, always sitting alone under the sycamore tree by the playground.

So lonely, so small.

So the first time she got picked on, I stepped in and protected her.

I became her friend. I convinced the other kids to give her a chance.

I explained to everyone-she wasn’t the bad girl everyone said she was.

Middle school, we ended up in different classes. She still waited for me by my classroom door every single day after school.

Senior year, we watched a meteor shower together over winter break.

Once we were adults, even living two thousand miles apart, we’d travel all that way for each other’s

birthdays.

I looked at her and said her name, quiet.

Her eyes were red and puffy.

“You disgust me.”

Then I said the last part, every word sharp as a blade.

“From today on-pretend we never met.”

All the color drained from her face.

I didn’t look at her again. I walked straight up to Lorenzo and pulled off my wedding ring.

The one engraved with the Romano family crest.

I threw it hard, right at his face.

Then I turned and walked away.

In that moment, I just wanted to get as far from both of them as possible.

The night wind hit my face. Crest City’s lights still glittered below.

That’s when I realized my face was already wet with tears.

My phone buzzed.

I glanced down. A text from Lucy.

Just three words. [I’m sorry.]

A taxi pulled up. I opened the door and slid in.

“Where to, miss?” the driver asked.

I opened my mouth and realized I had nowhere to go.

Romano estate?

That wasn’t my home anymore.

Finally, I decided to go back to my parents’ place.

“Take me to the airport, please.”

I booked the next available flight right then.

Before the plane even took off, news of the Romano family head’s marriage scandal was already tearing through Crest City’s entire underworld.

By early morning the next day, every media outlet was running the same headline.

[Art Foundation Boss Caught Cheating With Wife’s Best Friend]

Tiktok videos hit a million views overnight.

The comments were all dragging Lorenzo and Lucy, and taking shots at the family’s front companies and foundation projects right along with them.

Partner families started pulling their funding the very next day.

The Romano Family Council met for three straight hours. Final verdict: Lorenzo was stripped of his title as

Don.

When Lorenzo walked out of that meeting, his phone rang.

It was my mom.

He hesitated, then answered.

My mom’s voice was calm

“I’ve already had the estate butler ship all of Mia’s things back. Don’t contact her again.”

Before he could say a word, she hung up.

He sat in his car, scrolling through his contacts, and realized something. In three years, almost everyone he knew-he’d met through me.

Family business partners. Financial analysts. Steady arms dealers.

He’d spent three years convinced he’d handed me the title of Romano Donna, gifted me status and wealth.

The truth was the complete reverse.

I’d stepped into his empty life and filled every hollow part of him, bit by bit.

He fell apart more every day, holed up in the Crown District estate.

Funny thing was, according to the butler-Lucy showed up almost every single day.