Once the trust between two people is broken, nothing is ever the same.
A woman named Lauren shared her life story on the social media wanting to let many know that no matter how long you are with someone, you can never fully trust them, and sadly, she learned that lesson the hard way.
As she was getting ready for her business trip to Miami, Lauren received a text message from an unknown number. Curious, she opened it, and that’s when she received the shock of her life.
It was a screenshot of a conversation her husband Dustin had with another woman. The text he sent to her read, “My wife is out of town and the kids are at their Grandma’s place. We’ll have the house to ourselves tonight, babe! I can’t wait to have you in my arms, and in my bedroom ;)”
Lauren couldn’t believe her eyes. She and Dustin were married for 25 years. Could he really be cheating on her?
Eager to learn what was going on, she texting him to inform him that she had left to Miami, but in fact, she stayed in the house with all of the lights turned off.
After a couple of hours, she heard his SUV parking at the gateway.
Peering through the curtain, Lauren saw Dustin and another woman entering the bedroom. To her surprise, it was her son’s math teacher, Madison. As she saw Dustin taking his shirt off, Lauren couldn’t watch any longer so she stormed into the bedroom from the balcony where she was hiding and yelled, “DUSTIN, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?”
“La—Lauren…You…you’re home?” Dustin stuttered. “I thought you…”
“You thought I’d be on my flight to Miami while you fool around with your mistress…ON OUR BED! How sick!”
“Hold on, Lauren,” Madison chimed in. “I’m NOT your husband’s mistress. I’m his DAUGHTER! And I sent that text to your phone this morning,” Madison said.
“H—how is it possible?” Lauren stammered, looking at Dustin for answers.
Dustin was as surprised to hear Madison say that.
With a trembling voice, he asked, “Are you…Brooke’s daughter?”
“Yes! I am,” Madison replied, crossing her arms.
“Oh God…Now I understand everything,” Dustin broke down, turning to Lauren. “Do you remember the day we fought 25 years ago?”
Dustin went on to explain that Madison’s mother was a woman he had a one-night stand with while he and Lauren were still dating. On the day he slept with Brooke, he and Lauren got into a fight because she told him that her parents forced her to go to New York where she was supposed to study interior design.
Mad at her, Dustin went to the bar with his friends and that’s when he met Brooke.
Over a month later, someone knocked on Dustin’s door. It was Lauren. She told him that despite her parents’ wish, she couldn’t go to New York and leave him because she loved him.
Dustin was over the moon, but sadly, his happiness was short-lived. That same night, while Lauren was inside his house, he spotted Brooke standing in front of the house. He was quick to get outside and tell her to leave. But Brooke had some major news. She was pregnant with Dustin’s child.
“No…no, no…this can’t be,” Dustin panicked. “Brooke, we can’t have this child, okay? Let’s just terminate this pregnancy…please.”
“I’m keeping this child, Dustin,” Brooke replied in a stern, cold tone. “I came here to ask if you’re ready to be a father.”
“Brooke, look…I love Lauren. She came back…”
Brooke then said that it was all that she needed to hear and asked from Dustin to give her $100,000 so that she could raise their child.
Being very young and working a part-time job, he didn’t have that amount of money, but Brooke said if he wanted her to disappear from his life, he needed to provide her with what was asking for.
Dustin returned home devastated.
Worried about how to solve his problem, Dustin thought of something.
One time when he sneaked out to meet Lauren in her backyard without her parents knowing, he hid inside the garage. There, he noticed an unlocked trapdoor concealed under trash bags. Inside of it was a suitcase of money. He then fled the garage, but now he wanted to return there and check if the money was still there.
When Lauren fell asleep, he took the keys of her parents’ house and went to the garage. He slipped inside and took the suitcase with the money. Back in his apartment, he counted out a stunning $120,000 in cash. He gave $100,000 to Brooke the following day.
Hearing of what had really happened that many years ago, Lauren started crying and calling Dustin a murderer.
“I can’t believe this!” Lauren yelled. “You were the thief who broke into my Dad’s garage? You MURDERER! Dad had a heart attack after his money was stolen. You were there…with us…comforting me at the hospital when my Dad passed away! You told me the thief who stole the money would pay for his sins someday!”
“I…I’m sorry, Lauren…I had no choice…” Dustin repeated over and over again.
“How could you do this to me?” Lauren kept asking. “I sacrificed my dream for you! I lost my Dad because of you! I left everything behind for a man who cheated on me…and stole my Dad’s money to pay for his secret child!”
Madison also had some things to say.
“My Mom never told me about my biological father,” she explained. “I kept asking her who my father was. But she would never answer that question…until she was on her deathbed six months ago. Looking back at all the struggles my Mom and I went through because of this man, I decided to make him pay.
“It was easy to track him down with the address my Mom gave me. I later discovered you guys got a bigger house in the same neighborhood. I landed a job as a teacher at your son’s school and I was damn interested to know how the man who cheated on my mother lived after paying such a small price for his lies…and depriving me of a father.”
Madison pointed to Dustin with a furious gaze. “I found out a lot of interesting things from observing him…the kind of secrets you would have never known despite being his wife! It’s an immense pleasure to share what I found with everyone, Lauren!”
At that moment, Madison took out from her purse a bunch of compromising photographs of Dustin with other women. On one of them, he was with his boss’ wife. The moment Lauren was looking at those photos, Dustin’s boss, whom Madison had sent the photo too, called Dustin.
“Hello, Dustin…WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST GET IN MY MAIL?”
His wrong choices and his infidelity made Dustin lose both his job and his family.