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When Trevor demanded divorce after 25 years of marriage, Eleanor remained calm. The successful 47-year-old businessman wanted children his 50-year-old wife couldn't safely bear. But Eleanor had her own secrets - her child was already in middle school, hidden since Trevor's first emotional affair. This gripping tale of betrayal and revenge follows Eleanor as she uses evidence of Trevor's affair with his young intern to secure maximum assets in their divorce. Discover how a woman's quiet strength triumphs over a cheating husband's regrets in this powerful story of marriage, infidelity, and unexpected motherhood.Content：
My husband came to regret our child-free life in the twenty-fifth year of our marriage.He was forty-seven that year, a man in his prime—successful, mature, and composed.
I was fifty, already stepping into menopause.
He knew I wouldn't risk a high-risk pregnancy at my age, so he asked for a divorce, offering to give me the lion's share of our assets as compensation.
I didn't cry. I didn't scream. I just calmly accepted.
Of course, he would never know that I had regretted our child-free arrangement long ago, back in the year of his first emotional affair. And in that year of regret, I had taken matters into my own hands.
By the time his own regret finally bloomed, my child was already in middle school.
1.
When Trevor brought up the divorce, his demeanor was cold, almost detached.
I stood there, stunned, the world tilting on its axis as I struggled to quell the storm raging inside me. My first instinct was to ask him why.
Our relationship had cooled in recent years, it was true, but we were getting older. I’d assumed the fiery passion of youth was meant to mellow into a quiet companionship.
Hearing my question, Trevor finally looked up from his phone, his eyes darting away from mine. "Eleanor, I'm forty-seven this year. My parents are in their seventies…"
He talked in circles, a long, winding speech that all boiled down to one simple, brutal point: He didn't want his parents to die without grandchildren. He wanted a child, and now, he finally had the time and the means to raise one.
To put it plainly, Trevor had changed his mind about being child-free. At forty-seven.
I am three years his senior. At fifty, my health is my priority. I would never risk my life to have a baby at this age.
Trevor knew me well enough to understand that. A flicker of guilt crossed his face. "Ellie, I'm sorry," he said, before twisting the knife. "If only you were three years younger than me instead."
The same words he once used to woo me—"an older woman is a treasure"—had now become his sharpest weapon.
My expression must have been grim, my silence too long. He sighed, leaving me with a final command. "Just think it over. But I don't want to drag this out."
With that, he turned and walked out of our home.
2.
Once the initial shock subsided and a cold calm settled over me, my first call was to a private investigator.
It didn't take long to uncover the real reason for Trevor's sudden change of heart. He had a new woman.
He’d been having an affair with an intern at his company for the past two years. Now, the girl was demanding a ring on her finger, and conveniently, Trevor was demanding a baby in a crib.
Staring at the stack of glossy photos spread across my desk, I felt a strange numbness.
This wasn't his first time. His first betrayal was a decade into our marriage—an emotional affair. He chose to come back to me then, and I chose to forgive him.
It’s true what they say: once a cheater, always a cheater.
He’d learned from his mistakes. For two years, he had hidden this affair so perfectly that I hadn't suspected a thing.
I didn't bother contacting Trevor. Instead, I focused all my energy on gathering every last piece of evidence of his infidelity. The divorce was inevitable. My only goal now was to secure the maximum benefit for myself.
The company we'd built from the ground up was now a thriving enterprise. Twenty-five years of marriage had woven our lives and finances into a complex tapestry; pulling a single thread could unravel everything.
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