Sophie has had enough. She couldn’t take it anymore. She was tired of the abuse and constant insults. She was exhausted from watching her husband kiss and fondle her best friend right in front of her.

It was almost like they wanted her to see them. Almost like they were enjoying her agony.

Just the night before, she decided to watch TV in the living room. The guest room she was forced to live in was so close to the room she used to share with Gabriel which Gabriel now shares with Olivia that she could hear Olivia’s loud moans in her room. Although, thinking about it now, Olivia was probably being intentionally loud to make sure she hears them.

And so Sophie had decided to sit in the living room with the TV turned on. Nathan was already fast asleep in his room and she hoped she could have this moment of peace. But before she could settle in. Gabriel and Olivia stumbled into the living room, hugging and laughing. Gabriel tickled Olivia and she fell on her back on the couch, laughing like a maniac. Sophie felt sick.

She watched from the corner of her eyes as Gabriel leaned over on Olivia, using his teeth to pull her blouse down until her pink nipples were exposed. He clamped his mouth on one of Olivia’s nipples and she moaned loudly. He then proceeded to suckle it aggressively and Olivia gripped his hair, moaning loudly and shamelessly.

Sophie suddenly felt turned on. She wished Gabriel was doing that to her instead. The agony of watching him pleasure another woman was almost unbearable. She felt tortured as she watched him rub the inside of Olivia’s thighs and spread her legs apart. He then went down on her and buried his head between her legs. Sophie heard the sucking sound his lips made as he pleasured her and she felt her heartbeat increase. He always was so good at that. She watched as Olivia groaned and moaned, her body convulsing in pleasure .

Sophie felt the heat rushing through her body until she couldn’t take it anymore. She got up abruptly and hurried away to her room and spent the rest of the night crying in agony.

She couldn’t take it anymore. She was going to run mad if she spent another minute watching her husband pleasure another woman instead of her.

The moment Gabriel and Olivia left for work that morning, Sophie slipped into Gabriel’s study and rummaged through his drawer for the checkbook she knew he kept there. She found it and wrote herself a check for twenty thousand dollars.

Her plan was simple: she was going to take her son, cash the Cheque, and move far away from Seattle, to a place where Gabriel could not find her. He might be rich and powerful but she had always been good at hiding, even hiding from a tech billionaire.

She would move to a quiet city, maybe somewhere in Colorado and start a new life with her son.

She would find a job when she gets there, she didn’t mind serving coffee again or flipping burgers. She just wanted to be out of this hell.

Nathan was excited, thinking they were finally going on the vacation she promised him.

Sophie smiled at his innocence.

“Can we get ice cream on the way?” Nathan asked, jumping excitedly

“Of course baby, we can get ice cream," Sophie said.

Sophie put their luggages in her car, suddenly grateful for the Mercedes Gabriel had gifted her for her 23rd birthday. She also made sure to take her diamond necklaces and everything expensive he had gotten her. She might need to pawn those for cash in the future.

She had only about three thousand dollars in her bank account as Gabriel did not see the need of her keeping money in her account since she had access to all his cards. She was suddenly grateful she had that at least.

Sophie drove off with Nathan to the bank to cash the check. All she had to do was say she was Gabriel Hayes' wife and she would be attended to promptly. They could do a quick google search to verify.

As expected, she didn’t encounter any issues in the bank and she walked out with a briefcase full of cash.

She was afraid to leave the money in her account as Gabriel had access to it, not that he concerned himself with such little money but she wasn’t ready to take that risk. She planned to open a new account and deposit the cash there.

“You ready for a road trip buddy?” She said, glancing towards Ethan at the back

“Yayy! Road trip” Nathan said and Sophie smiled.

After ten hours on the road, she decided to stop for the night at a hotel and continue the journey the following day. Nathan was tired and had fallen asleep halfway through the journey. She booked a room in the hotel and managed to carry him to the room and lay him on the bed.

For the first time in her life, Sophie felt almost free.

She wondered what Gabriel and Olivia would be up to at the moment. They were probably wondering where she had disappeared to. She had made sure to destroy her SIM card and dropped her phone before leaving.

She then got a burner phone on the way so Gabriel would not be able to track her and take her son away from her.

She took a warm bath and laid on the bed beside her son, realizing sadly that Nathan was the only actual family she had now. She watched him sleeping peacefully and made the decision then already she was going to do anything possible to fight for him. She was not going to let those traitors take her son away from her. He was her light. Her solace.

With Nathan, she felt a little less lonely. Olivia could have her lying, cheating skunk of a husband. As long as she had her son, she would be fine.