Pregnant By My Best Friend

SkyStory 1 Chapters English

Driving home along the interstate after a week-long business trip, I tapped the dashboard screen and turned on a local live-call podcast. The topic of the night flashed across the display: "Can You Ever Truly Forgive an Unfaithful Spouse?" A woman called in from my city, her voice muffled, tinged with a nervous tremor. "My husband didn't just forgive me," she began. "He signed the deeds to all our properties and our cars over to my name to prove his commitment." "And yet... I cheated again." "He can't have children," she continued, her tone slipping from sheepish to defensive. "His parents were desperate for a grandchild. They actually set it up—they put his best friend in my bed." "Now I'm pregnant. And I have no idea how to break it to my husband." My fingers tightened around the leather-wrapped steering wheel until my knuckles turned white. A cold, irrational dread pooled in my gut. On pure instinct, I pulled out my phone and dialed my wife. Through the car speakers, over the podcast feed, a familiar ringtone echoed in real time—the specific jazz melody I had set for her phone years ago. I hung up immediately. Through the radio, the woman's panicked whisper came through the receiver: "My husband just called me... do you think he knows?"

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