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and my limp is going away. Luckily, I hired a very capable assistant before leaving on our honeymoon.  Although some of the nosey clientele are constantly asking where I am and what’s going on, my assistant tells them that I am traveling to find great fashions or that I am searching for a second location because of the booming business, which seems to pacify any other thoughts that might arise. I have not told my parents, wanting to spare them the emotional pain, and asked Jessica not to contact them. I would do it myself, once I felt fully recovered.
     
    It’s been over a year and a couple of months now, I’ve gotten my business back where I need it to be, while at the same time, working hard on plans to open a second location and having a grand opening in three and a half months. To my surprise, my assistant wasn’t too far off when she told this to my clients during the time of my marital problems. At the time, I wasn’t sure of where I was going or what to do next, I was so confused. Sometimes, I think about what it could have been if I had not married on a bet between friends, and it was the real thing; but I’ve gotten over the heartache, most of the pain and glad that I could get back to a more normal life again. I changed my cell number, but Justin has called the boutique several times in the last couple of months leaving messages.  However, he hasn’t called in the last week or two which is very positive for me. He’s probably on his second wife, and if he is, I consider myself to be the lucky one.
     
    CHAPTER 18
    Life goes on
    I stay in close contact with my very good friend, Jessica, who gave her support through my entire ordeal, who has been dating someone and proceeding with caution for three months. After my experience, she’s taking the relationship very slow. We sometimes meet at one of our favorite places, where I met, and who I thought was the love of my life. Actually, I ran into a mutual acquaintance of our past together, Justin’s friend Matt, who asked about him, because he lost touch sometime ago. It took everything in my power at that very moment, to stop me from slapping him. I told him that we were divorced and had not seen or heard from him and wanted to keep it this way.  To my surprise, I was asked how I related to his daughter.  I was shocked and asked, “Are you talking about Justin and if so, what daughter?” He then told me that Justin had a young child about the age of three or four. “Well, Matt, this is a complete surprise to me.” “Is there anything else that he forgot to tell me”? Everything that I didn’t know before, during and after our marriage is of no relevance now.
     
    Justin never told me about a child. He continued to say that Justin had been married at least twice before, but for reasons unknown, the marriages didn’t last and Justin never went into detail with him.  He also revealed more of Justin’s well kept secrets, and said, after graduate school and before receiving his law degree, he was convicted of spousal abuse with both wives; which is probably why Justin failed to contact him after we met, at the time of the bet. He just didn’t want Matt to reveal any of his past to me. Maybe I have stumbled upon the answer to the missing link I couldn’t fit in.  Could the child’s mother be the woman that Justin was talking to at his office party when he suddenly disappeared in to nowhere? Whatever they were talking about took a quick turn when I found him.  I feel somewhat relieved that he quickly exposed himself to me in the early stages of our marriage, better sooner than later. I can’t wipe out the past, as though it never happened, but with all certainty I will focus on myself once again without falling into a fantasy world.
     
    My new location opened, which is much larger than the first one, and Jessica dropped by to visit, and looked great, as usual, still wearing beautiful dresses to show her figure. I once told her that she might