My 5-Year-Old Started Wearing My Wife’s Heels and Lipstick — But Her Innocent Game Exposed the Lie She’d Been Hiding

Then Alan called.

“I’ve got your answer,” he said. “She’s been visiting that same house every week for the past few months. The guy’s name is Tom Richards. Married. No kids.”

My chest tightened. “So she’s having an affair.”

He hesitated. “I’m not sure it’s that simple. I did some digging — and here’s the strange part. Tom’s wife passed away three years ago. But about five years ago, he adopted a baby girl. Same age as Lily.”

For a second, I couldn’t breathe.

“What are you saying, Alan?”

“I’m saying… the adoption records list your wife as the biological mother.”

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I dropped the phone.

Suddenly, Lily’s words made horrible sense.
The “other house.”
“The man there doesn’t know about me.”

I felt my legs give out as I sank to the floor. Julia hadn’t been cheating — not in the way I’d feared. But she had been lying, hiding a truth so big it made my stomach churn.

When she came home that night, I was waiting for her in the living room, the adoption documents printed out on the table.Continue reading…