A Husband’s Affair Unravels His Family and Future

While secretly spoiling his mistress Isabelle with expensive gifts, Dean returns home to find his wife Meredith and their newborn daughter Ivy completely gone, leaving behind only a sealed envelope filled with damning evidence: credit card statements, photographs, and a divorce petition seeking sole custody based on abandonment. As Dean reels from the discovery that Meredith had spent months quietly building her case while caring for their newborn alone, he reaches the final page of the filing to find one last piece of evidence, something even more devastating than everything that came before it, still waiting to be revealed.

Dean’s hands shake as he realizes this final document could determine whether he ever gets to be part of his daughter’s life again, and whatever Meredith discovered promises to be the piece of evidence he has no way of explaining away.

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Aria Lexicon is the pen name of the writer and editor behind The Daily Signal, a site for original short fiction about families, grudges, awkward neighbors and the small decisions that turn into big ones. Every story is invented; every character is made up. When She isn't writing, She's reading other people's stories and trying to figure out why the good ones work.

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