My Husband Read Bedtime Stories to Our Neighbor, I Divorced Him That Night
I'm a family law attorney. My specialty is winning divorce cases for other people.
I never imagined that one day, I'd be drafting my own divorce papers.
For six years of marriage, Adrian read to me for ten minutes every night.
He said it was our little marriage ritual.
That was until I came home early from a business trip and heard his voice coming from my female neighbor’s apartment next door.
"Vivi, which chapter do you want to hear tonight?"
I stood outside her door, still holding the birthday cake I'd bought for him.
I turned around, went home, opened my laptop, and went through our marital asset inventory from top to bottom.
Later, Adrian knelt outside my law firm, his voice so hoarse it was barely recognizable.
He said, "Serena, I was just helping her fall asleep. I never touched her."
I set the voice recorder in front of him, and out came words he'd said himself.
"She'll never leave me. She's too rational, which actually makes her the easiest to manipulate."
I smiled. "Adrian, do you think the judge will find me easy to manipulate too?"