Chapter 2

Those obvious marks were impossible to ignore!

Sophie said quickly:

"Cassie invited me over to her place, but something went wrong on the way."

"I got trapped in her apartment building's elevator. There was no cell service and no Wi-Fi. I was stuck there almost the whole day."

She urged me to search the local news.

Sure enough, I found a news report about an elevator malfunction in Cassie's neighborhood.

It wasn’t fixed until past eight in the evening. It matched Sophie’s story perfectly.

"And the red marks on my neck are just bug bites."

She tilted her neck toward me, and I did see a few small bumps that looked like insect bites.

No matter what loophole I pointed out, she had a perfectly logical explanation ready. She answered so smoothly, almost as if she had rehearsed it.

Instead of clearing my doubts, this made me even more suspicious. Something was definitely wrong with Sophie!

My gut was proven right that night. After Sophie stripped and fell asleep, I noticed something on her lower back, right above her tailbone.

There was a number written in thick, indelible black marker.

24!

I clenched my fists so hard my knuckles turned white. I was about to explode with rage!

This was no coincidence. Maybe a face could look similar, but there was no way in hell the number 24 was a coincidence!

Sophie was indeed Number 24!

Staring at that number, I gritted my teeth. Writing it on such an intimate part of her body was a blatant insult to me.

It was a slap in the face. She was completely fearless, not caring if I found out, treating me like some weak pushover she could easily manipulate.

A boss from another company? Why the hell did he think he could do this to me!

Looking at the sleeping Sophie, I wanted nothing more than to drag her out of bed and scream at her. But I quickly forced myself to calm down.

If I confronted her now, she would just throw another well-rehearsed excuse at me. It would be meaningless.

I needed hard, undeniable evidence.

Once I had it, I would cut her off completely!

A cheating woman does not deserve to be my wife!

The next morning, I hired a private investigator to track Sophie’s every move.

Furthermore, I wanted to find out why Sophie, an employee of Skyline Enterprises, was in the group chat of the Vanguard Group's boss.

What dirty secrets was she keeping from me?

The private investigator kept me waiting for three excruciating days.

Those three days were the worst days of my life.

Sophie kept leaving early and coming home late.

What made me even angrier was that every time she returned, she smelled of expensive cologne that wasn't mine, and her intimate belongings, like her pantyhose, were completely missing.

It was obvious what she was doing out there.

Yet, Sophie still lied straight to my face. Her excuses were so perfect that I couldn’t even find a way to argue back.

Finally, on the third day, the private investigator called. He had dug up everything.

Before telling me the details, he sent me a file and told me to watch the contents first.

I connected the USB drive to my phone and opened the files. They were filled with videos.

I clicked on a random one, and within seconds, my blood boiled.

It was a video of Sophie cheating!

And the man she was with was none other than Mandy's boss, Henderson!

Then, the investigator closed that file and opened another video. It was another clip of Sophie being unfaithful.

But when I saw the man in this video, my jaw dropped.

It was Sophie’s actual boss, Chris.

Sophie was sleeping with more than one man!