During a quiet night shift, a morgue nurse was processing the body of an unidentified middle-aged man. Everything felt routine—until she heard the faintest sound from under the sheet.

Assuming it was a normal post-mortem twitch, she followed protocol and lifted the corner to check.

What she saw stopped her cold.

Lying on the stretcher was her husband—the man who had told her he was hundreds of miles away on a business trip and had video-called her just hours earlier.

He was never on that trip.

She soon learned he’d taken a week off work and spent it with his mistress. He died in the mistress’s apartment and was brought to the morgue without ID.

The real shock wasn’t just finding him dead…
It was discovering the life he’d been hiding.