{"id":6786,"date":"2025-03-15T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T13:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Local Reads\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2025-03-15T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T13:44:35","slug":"i-attended-my-husbands-office-party-for-the-first-time-but-i-never-expected-to-see-his-other-wife-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/Local Reads\/i-attended-my-husbands-office-party-for-the-first-time-but-i-never-expected-to-see-his-other-wife-there\/","title":{"rendered":"I Attended My Husband\u2019s Office Party for the First Time, but I Never Expected to See His Other \u2018Wife\u2019 There"},"content":{"rendered":"
I watched as they put Ricky in the squad car. His hands were cuffed, his head hung low. No matter how much I called his name, he wouldn\u2019t look at me. Ricky wasn\u2019t a criminal, just a good kid who\u2019d made mistakes.\n
The officer told me Ricky would be booked downtown, and hours passed in silence. Then, late that evening, the officer returned. He looked at me, regret in his eyes. \u201cI arrested the wrong kid,\u201d he said, and then added, \u201cI think I know who set him up.\u201d\n
My heart sank. The officer explained that evidence in Ricky\u2019s backpack was planted. A security camera had captured a kid named Troy Baxter slipping something into it. Troy, once Ricky\u2019s best friend, had fallen in with the wrong crowd.\n
Troy had framed Ricky to protect himself or someone else. The officer promised to get Ricky out, and by midnight, he called. Ricky was coming home.\n
When Ricky stepped out of the car, exhausted but relieved, he told me, \u201cI didn\u2019t do anything, Grandma. I swear.\u201d I held him tightly, whispering, \u201cI know, sweetheart.\u201d\n
Troy confessed and said older kids had forced him to frame Ricky. The case led to bigger arrests. Ricky was back at school, but things had changed. He was more cautious, more thoughtful.\n
A week later, Officer Daniels, now off-duty, visited. He apologized for arresting Ricky, but I told him, \u201cWhat matters is what we do after.\u201d We both learned something, and life, as hard as it was, had taught us important lessons.\n
Ricky\u2019s record was clean, and he was going to be okay.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I watched as they put Ricky in the squad car. His hands were cuffed, his head hung low. No matter how much I called his name, he… \n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n