Review: Forgiving You

Forgiving You by Melissa Bender
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

2 ⭐⭐ - Meh!
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I can not understand that he accepted evidence that his wife was cheating on him, presented by his secretary and did not confront or sought to know the truth of our heroine.
He simply abandoned her and let her give birth to their daughter alone and then presented the divorce papers.
Without talking to her.
He simply trusted strangers, not his wife.
He erased her from his life and still slandered her to family, friends and acquaintances.
And no one ever accepted her phone calls.
She was completely in the dark, not knowing why he left her.
I did not swallow it.
And the bitch secretary just got fired! She should receive punishment and be sued for falsehood. Just a slap in the face at the end of the book did not kill my thirst for revenge.
I wanted blood.
Our heroine forgave him very easily and the author used the plot of a disease so that the reader would feel sorry for him and also forgive him.
An ok reading.

“Char.” He smiled, gazing into my eyes in a way that made me quiver from the inside. “Fuck the plan. I want a family.”

He was meant to be the one next to me—my own husband who was meant to be holding my hand and helping me through this as I delivered our precious, absolutely breathtaking baby girl into the world.

However, he was nowhere in sight. He wasn’t there to cut our daughter’s umbilical cord or hold her. We didn’t get the birth photos of the moment we became a family of three. I had to do it all alone with the help of a wonderful midwife, as she offered words of encouragement when I wanted to give up.

I would show my daughter just how loved she was in this world.

I had wondered if Chris had been seeing someone else or having an affair with that leggy brunette from his office who always eyed him up and down and scowled at me whenever I visited him at work.

Chris must be joking me; he wants to get a divorce.

“Chris left me. I called when I went into labour, and he said he was on his way, but he never showed up. I haven’t heard from him since then. I thought maybe he was in an accident, or something went wrong, but nothing at all.” I wiped my eyes, shaking my head, annoyed. “Oh, wait. If you call, leaving divorce papers for me to sign on the kitchen bench hearing from him, then yeah, I heard from him this morning when I went home,” I said bitterly. I was never an angry person; always seeing the good in people.

“Why is it that I always give in and feel like I am the bad one?” I hated that I felt this way.

“We aren’t even divorced yet, and you’re already fucking your secretary. Are you trying to fucking kill me even more than you have been?!” I shouted angrily into the speaker.

He completely broke my heart. I was wrong.

“No idea, but I have a feeling Katie has something to do with all of this. Hopefully, he sends the photos to me then we can check them out.”

Was she taking his side now? Saying what happened wasn’t his fault? “I can’t deal with this.” I took my cereal and went to the bedroom.

But then I remembered what he had done, and how he had left me and his daughter.

“I had no one. No one visited me in hospital. My first baby and I were alone. I had to drive home against doctors’ orders because I had no one to help me.”

“You destroyed me.”

“I want you to fire Katie,” I said with seriousness. “I have never involved myself with your work because I don’t believe in doing so, but I want her gone.”

“Wow. I’m blown away. I can’t believe they would do something so horrible. This pretty much destroyed a family.”

I couldn’t jump into bed with him and act as if he didn’t accuse me of cheating, and leave me, asking for a divorce.

“Rule number one when in a relationship: always stand up for your girlfriend, not the fucking whore who’s trying to screw you!”

“All my friends hate me. Your family stopped talking to me, and I was alone. God, so badly I want to hate you, Chris. I really do. So badly I want to divorce you and never see you again, never have to look at you, and just live a life where I hate you.”

Katie was standing on the side of the footpath, looking absolutely stunned to see us both. I didn’t speak to her. I let my hand do the talking and smacked her good and hard. The bitch didn’t know what hit her.

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