My Best Friend Wants to Borrow My Husband for MarriageChapter 1
My best friend got pregnant before marriage and her boyfriend took off. So, she asked me if she could "borrow" my husband to marry her.
She promised that all she needed was a marriage certificate to get her child registered. The moment that was done, she said, she’d return my husband to me.
When I turned her down, she was furious.
"What's the big deal? It’s just borrowing your husband!" she snapped.
The next day, I found a marriage certificate in my husband’s briefcase.
The names on it were my husband’s and my best friend’s.
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"Cass, can’t you lend me your husband so I can marry him for a bit?”
Starla White, my best friend, said this so casually, I nearly spat out my coffee.
“What did you just say?”
I stared at her, utterly shocked, my gaze drifting to her eight-months-pregnant belly.
Starla rubbed her stomach, throwing me a quick, dismissive look.
“Oh, relax. I only need your husband for a marriage certificate, so I can register my baby. As soon as that’s done, I’ll give him right back to you.”
The sheer confidence in her tone made my eye twitch.
“That’s not happening. Plenty of women are single mothers now. Since you chose to keep the baby, you should’ve prepared for the consequences, don’t you think?”
I replied coolly.
At this, Starla’s face darkened with visible irritation.
“You know how hard it is for single moms to make it in society. And anyway, it’s not like you and your husband even have a marriage certificate yet! What’s the harm in letting me borrow him for a bit?”
I almost laughed out of sheer disbelief at Starla’s reasoning.
Eight months ago, she’d disappeared for a while and then suddenly showed up to tell me she was pregnant—and that her boyfriend had run off.
I had tried to caution her, saying, “Being pregnant and unmarried is already tough and it’ll be even harder to raise a child alone with the father gone.”
But she’d looked me straight in the eye, resolute. “I’m not afraid. Since I’ve decided to have this baby, I’m prepared to deal with whatever judgment comes my way.”
And now, here she was, asking to “borrow” my husband. How could she say something so outrageous with a straight face?