Saskia

On the morning of October 28th, 2018, Saskia woke up in the same bed she always did.

It was the bed she'd shared with her husband for years.

She felt her regular cotton sheets around her and she opened her eyes to the same white ceiling.

But this morning was different because the night before, Saskia had seen something.

I told myself, this is really important and I need to remember anything that I can.

In the middle of the night, she awoke in a haze to find her husband on his laptop.

His face was aglow in the light of his screen.

What was on that screen, she knew, would change her life forever.

I was so out of it.

It was like I was in a dream, but I also knew that this was really serious.

I told myself, you have to remember this.

I just knew.

And I passed back out.

In the morning, she could still picture it.

Flashes of one image ran through her mind.

It was a window into a life her husband never planned for her to see.

And so I woke up feeling so scared, like petrified.

I didn't know what I was looking at, but I knew that he was doing something in secret.

It felt like I was in danger.

And I knew that I had to confront him and find out what was going on.