Chapter 136 Pretend She’s Dead

After hearing that man's hopeful tone and seeing him indicating for them to enter, Lothur sighed and said. "Sir, I think we'd better talk somewhere else. It would be better to keep this just between us..."

The man froze upon hearing that and looked in the direction of his home, where his children were at the moment. "You mean..."

"Don't be hasty, sir. I just want to ensure you have the peace of mind to receive this information. I don't believe it will be good if your children are around." Lothur said before Otto finished his words.

"All right, I have an office nearby where no one will bother us." He said this and then asked the children's nanny to look after them while he left.

After a few moments, their group reached an office at the end of that same street, the place where this man worked.

When they arrived there, Elke was holding one of Lothur's hands, sweating like she was in a sauna, barely able to look at the man. But with great effort, she looked at him as they sat around a conference table.

"So, what did you find out? Is my wife okay? What happened to her in the last three months?" He nervously asked as his hands and feet moved constantly.

Lothur watched this momentarily, feeling his heart beating faster. Then, he looked at Elke, closed his eyes, and sighed. "I suppose we've figured it all out, sir..."

"Oh?"

"But before we begin, I want to give you some advice. Would you be willing to listen to it, sir?"

Seeing the serious expression on the face of this young man in front of him, Otto tried to calm his heart and nodded to him.

"Well, what I am about to say may be difficult, but try to understand that I have a reason for it." He took a breath and then said. "Sir, forget about this woman. The Suse you knew no longer exists."

Upon hearing this, Otto went pale, feeling as if Lothur was trying to tell him that his beloved wife had died. "You... You..."

Gulp!

"That..." He stammered in nervousness but could not say anything distinguishable.

Elke took courage and said. "Your wife is not dead, sir. But the current Suse can no longer fulfill the roles of wife and mother. If you try to bring her into your life, your whole family will risk ruin."

"What does that mean?" He looked at the beautiful red-haired woman next to Lothur.

Lothur then began to explain his findings. "Sir, your wife cheated on you with another man about six months ago. That was her first experience doing so, but not her last."

Upon hearing this, Otto convulsed before he began to cough, almost to the point of having a nervous breakdown.

"No, it can't be!"

"My Suse wouldn't be able to!" He said this amidst his pallor, denying with all his heart this cruel reality.

"Ah, unfortunately, she was able, sir," Lothur said calmly. "The first time happened when you were on a trip about six months ago, sir. At that time, she spent about a week with this man."

"If you don't believe me, you can ask your children. Their mother received this person daily in your own home."

Gulp!

Elke swallowed her saliva in nervousness as she heard Lothur throwing the naked truth in that man's face. 'Be more careful with your words!'

"Your children didn't see the 'worst' happening, but they saw this person visiting your house for several days in a row."

"Anyway, I wouldn't advise you to involve your children in this, but they can confirm such a thing. Anyway, that was the first time your wife cheated on you, but not the last."

"After that, she met a man who turned her into a slut."

"What? Boy, look at the way you talk..." He was saying this angrily, already standing in front of Lothur and Elke.

But Lothur interrupted him and continued. "I'm not trying to offend your wife, sir. I'm just telling you the truth. Suse has turned into a prostitute. Now she sells her body for a mere 100 bronze coins per hour."

"Cough! Cough!" The man began coughing up blood after hearing such nonsense, feeling as if someone was squeezing hard on his fragile heart.

"No way, she wouldn't be able to! I've known Suse for 15 years! She's always been correct!" He shouted at the two youths in front of him.

"Sir, I was with your wife, and when I mentioned her name, she exhibited nervous behavior. So I'm sure that was her."

"You what?"

"Don't worry. I didn't touch your wife. I just talked to her to ensure it wasn't someone who looked like your Suse." Lothur placed a small glass vial with a red liquid inside on the table in front of him.

"I collected some of her blood. If you distrust me, find a doctor and ask him to compare it with your children's blood. He will tell you whether or not this person was your wife."

Seeing this, Otto began to fear that everything this young man had told him was true. 'It can't be! How? Why?'

Lothur then finished. "Sir, as I said, the Suse you knew is dead. The current Suse is lost in a dirty reality that I don't know if she will be able to escape. She is addicted to stimulant drugs, but also to sex."

"If you saw Suse as she is now, I am sure you would not recognize her, considering the tattoos and piercings on her body."

"So, I recommend that you forget her. Pretend Suse is dead, make up a story for your children, and then leave this city. Try to restart your life somewhere else, get a new wife, finally, live." So, he advised the poor, betrayed husband.

Elke nodded and said. "That's for the best, sir. Of course, your children will suffer a little as they 'find' out their mother is dead, but eventually, they will get over it and be happy again."

"They will also preserve the memory of their good mother and not the person she became."

He looked at the two with wide eyes and mouth in amazement at their advice. 'What is wrong with you people? Don't you understand the meaning of love? How can you tell me just to abandon her?'

He swallowed his anger and asked. "The way you talk, kid, you sound like you know where she is. Do you? Then tell me how to rescue her!"

Lothur closed his eyes and sighed in disappointment as he saw the expression on Otto's face. "Sir, your wife is lost. She will not recover, no matter how hard you try. To make matters worse, she is with a dangerous person, so you may ruin your family if you try to go that way..."

He looked coldly at Otto and showed some of his murderous intent. "If you want to know where she is, I will tell you. But tell me something first. Are you prepared to see your children die? Be enslaved? Become orphans?"

Elke then used one of her hands to squeeze one of Lothur's thighs, asking him not to overdo it.

But Otto genuinely saw the end of his family in Lothur's words, feeling an uncontrollable fear in his heart. "No, my children are all I have! I would never jeopardize their safety!" He replied, trembling.

"Good!"

"Forget about her, pretend she's dead. It will be easier that way." Lothur relaxed a little, "And do as we said, move to another city. Maybe your wife will get rid of these people one day, but that won't mean she'll return to being what she was."

"Once someone gets dirty, it's impossible to get completely clean. There will always be those marks from their past mistakes."

"So, to ensure she doesn't find you and destroys you all later, get out of this place."

Elke nodded and said. "That woman did unforgivable things while still with you. Worst, she abandoned her own children. Sir, even if one day she gets herself out of the situation she is in, she will never be trusted."

"A person incapable of making good judgments about the character of people she is in a relationship with will always be a walking problem, a ticking time bomb."

"I wouldn't want her children around her. They could get hurt." She finished, giving her feminine opinion to this foolish husband who seemed willing to forgive his wife.

After hearing all this, Otto shed a few tears in silence, feeling terrible at this moment.

He truly loved Suse and was willing to forgive and try to live with her even after all this. But the fear that this would negatively affect his children was almost as great or greater than the desire to be with Suse, to rescue her.

And this confusion only made everything more painful for this man, who narrowly missed having a mental breakdown right there in front of Lothur and Elke.

Elke then said. "Sir, try to get over your wife, pretend she died. That may sound cruel, but you will still be able to remember who she once was, not what she has become."

"Eventually, you will also be able to move on with your life and meet other people."

"Sigh..."

"I understand... Thank you for your words and for resolving the doubts in my heart. Now I at least know the truth..." He said in a pitying tone.

After that, he sat down and placed on the table in front of those two the medal needed for Lothur to complete the mission.