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August 14, 2025 11 mins

📖🔥 A Wife's Bitter Reckoning 🔥📖

📎 Read the entire book: https://reurl.cc/XQRjae

✒️Author: Gavin

🔑 Keywords: Short stories, Modern, Betrayal, Pregnancy, Divorce, CEO

😘 Synopsis:

My husband, Bennett, and I were New York's golden couple. But our perfect marriage was a lie, childless because of a rare genetic condition he claimed would kill any woman who carried his baby. When his dying father demanded an heir, Bennett proposed a solution: a surrogate.

The woman he chose, Aria, was a younger, more vibrant version of me. Suddenly, Bennett was always busy, supporting her through "difficult IVF cycles." He missed my birthday. He forgot our anniversary.

I tried to believe him, until I overheard him at a party. He confessed to his friends that his love for me was a "deep connection," but with Aria, it was "fire" and "exhilarating."

He was planning a secret wedding with her in Lake Como, at the same villa he'd promised me for our anniversary.

He was giving her a wedding, a family, a life—all the things he denied me, using a lie about a deadly genetic condition as his excuse. The betrayal was so complete it felt like a physical shock.

When he came home that night, lying about a business trip, I smiled and played the part of the loving wife.

He didn't know I'd heard everything.

He didn't know that while he was planning his new life, I was already planning my escape.

And he certainly didn't know I had just made a call to a service that specialized in one thing: making people disappear.


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