Chapter 6 - Playing the Game
Mark stood in the entryway, looking like the man I thought I had married.
He offered me the roses and apologized profusely, blaming his mother for the lies.
I let my lower lip tremble and let him hold me, even though every cell in my body screamed in disgust.
I told him I needed time and space to process everything.
He promised to go to therapy and swore there were no more secrets.
I told him to go back to Linda's for a few more days, and he agreed, thinking he had won me over.
After he left, I called David Chen.
I told him everything I had found.
David laid out the reality: I had no legal rights, and Jessica had the biological advantage.
But we had the evidence of fraud, embezzlement, and Linda's abuse.
David planned to file an emergency petition for temporary sole managing conservatorship and a restraining order against Linda.
He warned me that Linda would try to destroy me in the media, but we would use the threat of prison for tax fraud and forgery as our leverage.
I packed our bags that night, telling Emma we were going on a secret adventure to Aunt Megan's house in Austin.
Once she was asleep, I logged into Mark's iCloud and downloaded everything.
I found messages between Mark and his brother, revealing that Linda had given Mark an ultimatum to leave me or she would expose his affair.
Linda had orchestrated the whole birthday party incident to force my hand.
She had underestimated me.
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I emailed the evidence to David and set my alarm.
Tomorrow, I was taking control.
