Betrayed by Everyone I Loved
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After I discovered my boyfriend, Julian Vance, was cheating on me, my anxiety spiraled out of control.
It got so bad that I would wake up in the middle of the night, pacing the entire house barefoot just to make sure he was still in the guest bedroom.
To pacify me, Julian had a custom tracking bracelet made. "This way, you can check where I am anytime," he said.
But this very bracelet became the catalyst for an even bigger web of lies.
The first red flag happened when the tracker showed him at City Hall.
I pushed open the heavy doors, only to see my younger brother, Ethan, waving at me.
"Julian left his bracelet in my car yesterday. We were just about to drop it off for you after we finished our errands," Ethan explained smoothly.
The second time, the tracker pinged at St. Mary's Hospital.
I was in the middle of a meeting but rushed straight there the second I saw the red dot.
Pushing open the ward door, I found my Dad sitting on the hospital bed. The bracelet was resting right on his nightstand.
"Perfect timing," Dad said. "Julian came to visit us yesterday and left this behind."
I just nodded, swallowing my doubts.
Until the third time. The tracker pinpointed The Hudson Hotel—right in the middle of a wedding venue.
That sickeningly familiar feeling of dread clawed its way back up my throat.
It got so bad that I would wake up in the middle of the night, pacing the entire house barefoot just to make sure he was still in the guest bedroom.
To pacify me, Julian had a custom tracking bracelet made. "This way, you can check where I am anytime," he said.
But this very bracelet became the catalyst for an even bigger web of lies.
The first red flag happened when the tracker showed him at City Hall.
I pushed open the heavy doors, only to see my younger brother, Ethan, waving at me.
"Julian left his bracelet in my car yesterday. We were just about to drop it off for you after we finished our errands," Ethan explained smoothly.
The second time, the tracker pinged at St. Mary's Hospital.
I was in the middle of a meeting but rushed straight there the second I saw the red dot.
Pushing open the ward door, I found my Dad sitting on the hospital bed. The bracelet was resting right on his nightstand.
"Perfect timing," Dad said. "Julian came to visit us yesterday and left this behind."
I just nodded, swallowing my doubts.
Until the third time. The tracker pinpointed The Hudson Hotel—right in the middle of a wedding venue.
That sickeningly familiar feeling of dread clawed its way back up my throat.

















































