The next morning, I searched his bag and found a motel key card and a jewelry store receipt. Then I opened his laptop and discovered a folder containing photographs of Mark with another woman named Claire.
In one picture, they were holding hands. In another, he was putting a wedding ring on her finger. A video showed him promising to love her for the rest of his life while people applauded.
My husband had exchanged vows with another woman while I was home believing he was fishing.
I found Claire’s workplace number and called her.
“I’m Lisa, Mark’s wife,” I told her.
She went silent before replying, “Mark’s wife is dead.”
I was stunned. Claire genuinely believed Mark’s first wife had died 12 years earlier.
I sent her a photograph of Mark and me together. Nearly an hour later, she called back.
“Are you the woman Mark told me died 12 years ago?”
