She met her soon-to-be-husband online in a chat room for divorced singles. Their real life meetings had been intense, and, while the exact details of their upcoming marriage hadn’t been worked out, she knew this was the man who would share her future.
It was the middle of the day on Saturday when her phone rang. According to Caller ID, it was her fiance calling. That was somewhat of a surprise as they’d had a long talk earlier in the morning and had he said he would be tied up all weekend cleaning up some projects at work. He promised to be in their favorite chat room later that night.
She was thrilled to have another call as she loved to hear his voice. She answered with a sexy “Hello, lover,” and was confused when he didn’t respond. She was even more confused as she listened to what seemed to be car engine noises and a radio talk show.
Then she heard his voice and realized she wasn’t listening to a radio talk show and he wasn’t talking to her. He was talking to someone in the car with him. She heard him saying the same words he’d said to her earlier as they’d discussed their wedding. And she heard a woman responding with almost the same words as she had responded.
There was more, a lot more, as she listened in on a conversation she was never meant to hear. Had he accidentally hit the “redial” button on his cell phone? Or had the other woman in the car secretly dialed her?
As devastated as she felt by the unexpected betrayal of her cyber lover, how long would she have been an unwilling player in his game if technology that brought her together with a cyber cheat hadn’t brought her full-face with his cheating?