Chapter 10 - The Affair Wasn’t the Biggest Betrayal
The major reversal came when Landon finally stopped centering Travis.
At first, catching Camille with another man felt like the ultimate betrayal.
It was visible.
Simple.
Socially legible.
Everyone understood cheating.
The drink tampering was harder.
So was emotional control.
Then Landon realized Travis had entered after Camille’s manipulation was already established.
The affair did not cause the scheme.
The scheme made the affair easier.
Camille had built a life in which Landon was increasingly isolated, self-doubting, and dependent.
That gave her freedom.
She could disappear for hours and call it errands.
Stay out overnight and say she had slept in the guest suite because Landon needed uninterrupted rest.
Tell him that intimacy made her feel guilty while maintaining a relationship with Travis.
When Landon expressed suspicion, she turned it back on him.
“You’re insecure because of the chair.”
That sentence now made him furious.
Not because disability insecurity was impossible.
Because Camille used a real vulnerability to conceal her behavior.
Nora said it best:
“She didn’t cheat because you use a wheelchair.”
Landon looked at her.
“She cheated because she chose to.”
Simple.
Again, simplicity helped.
That same week, investigators confirmed Camille had obtained the sedating medication through an old legitimate prescription originally issued for herself. No elaborate criminal network. No secret laboratory.
Something ordinary misused deliberately.
That too fit.
The story was not dramatic because the substance was exotic.
It was dramatic because a person Landon trusted used an ordinary object—a nightly drink—as a tool for control.
By Chapter Ten of his own disaster, Landon finally understood:
The worst thing Camille had done was not sleep with Travis.
It was make Landon question whether his own body was telling him the truth.
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And reclaiming that trust mattered more than reclaiming the relationship ever could.
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