Monday morning, I left before Ruth was awake, I recruited Ethan, a coworker with mad hacking skills, and we devised a plan for the upcoming weekend. I sent the info I found on her devices to my lawyer and requested he start proceedings for our divorce.
I contacted my best friend Daniel as he's a sleuth nerd, and I gathered advice as to how get more trashy evidence on Ruth and especially Murray, her new 'lover.'
I wanted to take them both down, hard, to make them feel some of what I did.
The next few evenings around Ruth I pretended nothing was wrong. Ruth behaved similar, aloof, distant, as if we weren't married, just roommates, and behaving as if everything was normal, there was no intimacy, minimal conversation, it was a totally different vibe than our previous days... even going back years, we were never distant; yet she didn't question any of it.
My most surprise was she didn't go for a run at all this week.
Was she seeing him in the daytime?
Were they done?
Even if they were, I wasn't taking her back, I was proceeding with the divorce and my scheme to expose them.
Thursday night at supper Ruth looked up from her phone, which seemed to be attached to her hand all week.
"I'm going out of town Friday to a work conference." She said in a way as if everything was already confirmed, and she was just letting me know as a courtesy.
I didn't say anything, just nodded.
A few moments later "It wraps up Saturday afternoon, so I'll be staying overnight at the hotel Friday." She gazed at me, likely wondering how I'd respond, as we've never been apart a single night of our married life. I continued eating, I knew she was lying, but I refused let her know that, not yet.
"Oh ya, and Saturday night I'm going to a bachelorette party with Mary." Another statement, no discussion required, already decided; I confidently knew this to also be untrue, as there was no Mary, only Murray.
I didn't respond, I got up, took a couple beers to the patio, I called Ethan and Daniel to initiate my plan tomorrow.
Friday morning, as usual, I left Ruth sleep, got my to go coffee and headed out just before 8 am; Ethan was to tell our boss I was sick.