I was stunned. A horrifying thought took root in my mind, was Gerald's affair partner … are his best friend Jonah's mother? I remembered how he often visited Jonah's house under the pretense of checking in on him.
On the day of his birthday, Gerald dressed carefully in the early morning and told me he had an important meeting at the office.
He said he'd be busy all night and might even stay at the company until morning.
I nodded lightly, "Alright."
He didn't know that I had a tracking app on my phone linked to his location. At first, I installed it because he'd come home drunk every night and I worried he'd get into trouble.
A woman's wild imagination made me worry each night. Would he drink himself to death? Would he pass out drunk by the roadside and get run over? Or would he collapse somewhere, with no one there to take care of him?
But now, the tracker served a different purpose, to see which hotel he visited or which bar he was frequenting for his indulgent escapades.
Gerald didn't go to the office. His location had been moving around a shopping mall all morning.
Men generally don't spend time there unless they're accompanying a woman.