It's Not So Much She's His Other Woman, It's That He Won Her At Poker

Eight years ago in a high stakes poker game my husband took the money and house of a player. He asked for a chance to win back his house, he put up his wife as collateral. The game was one hand, two witnesses. He lost his wife to my husband.

He kept her in her house, and forced me to accept her in our house. He got her pregnant, and they have a daughter. She's in first grade now, along with my daughter. They sit side by side, do everything together. On weekends it's a never ending tantrum if they are not allowed to be together. I know they are half sisters, but this is ridiculous.

She and I are both 35 this year and my husband wants a party. Everyone knows he won her in poker game and keeps her in the house he won from her exhusband. The secret of her daughter is not lost in the translation. It has been eight years, and she's closer than ever. I have little or no choice, she's not for loan, or rent, or sale. She's in the permanent collection.