Pillow talk and poison

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hi guys, and welcome back. My story for this evening
is pillow talk and poison. Tonight's story is the kind
you don't tell at family reunions. It's the kind that
rots marriages from the inside out and makes you question

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just how well you really know the person lying next
to you at night. Her name is Simon. She's thirty four, gorgeous,
the kind of beautiful that makes men forget their vowels
and their morals. She's been married to Marcus for eight

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years now. Marcus, well, he's no saint. The man's cheated, lied,
dipped his hand in the cookie jar more than one.
Simone knew, she always knew, but she played the perfect wife, cooking, smiling,

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keeping the peace until one day she decided to stop
being the victim. What Marcus didn't know was that Simone's
revenge wasn't just one affair or two. It was five,
and the worst part, each man was a piece of

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Marcus's life. It started with Deshaun, Marcus's best friend since
middle school, the man who was the best man at
the wedding. He and Simon crossed that line after Marcus
forgot her birthday for the third year in a row.

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Drunken shoulder to cry on knight turned into a secret
they kept for months. Then there was Terry, Marcus's cousin.
They met at a barbecue. He made her laugh, something
Marcus hadn't done in years. A few flirtatious texts became

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knights in a cheap hotel outside of town. Number three
Victor Marcus's barber. You know, the man Marcus trusted with
his hairline and his secrets. Small like the way Victor listened.

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He told her she was too fine to be neglected.
Number four Raymond, Marcus's business partner. That one wasn't even
about attraction, It was about access. Marcus had screwed her

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over financially, and Raymond gave her a way to get
even in more ways than one. And number five was
the one that cut the deepest. Andre, Marcus's younger brother. Yeah,

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the man he grew up with, fought for and loved
like no one else. Simone said it just happened. Andre
swore it was love. Five men, all connected to Marcus,
all shared the same woman. Behind his back. The truth

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came out, but not because Smoke confessed, but because Marcus
cut a whiff of cologne in the bed cologne he
didn't wear. He played it cool. At fest checked her
phone while she was in the shower. What he found

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was not one name, but five Texas photos hotel receipts,
and that's when Marcus snapped. He didn't yell, he didn't
throw things. He simply said, you know, you just signed

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your death certificate. Right From that night on, Simone started
noticing little things. Her car tire slashed, dead flowers left
on the porch, a single bullet in the mail box.

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The police told her there wasn't enough to go on.
Friends told her to leave, but Simon stayed, convinced Marcus
wouldn't actually do it. Then one night, she woke up
to Marcus standing over her with a pillow in his hands.

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He didn't move, didn't blink, just stared at her for
what felt like hours, before walking away. Three weeks later,
Marcus disappeared. His foam was found in a ditch two
miles from home. No sign of him sense. Some people

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say Simon has something to do with it. Maybe one
of her five lovers decided Marcus was a problem that
needed to be removed. Others think Marcus is still out there,
waiting for the right moment. To get the revenge he's
been plotting all along. And as for some moment, she's

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still in the same house, sleeping with the lights on
and checking every shadow. So here's the question for you listeners.
If you've found out the person you love betrayed you
with the five people you trusted most in the world,

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what would you do