My Celebrity Therapist's Cruel Deception

My Celebrity Therapist's Cruel Deception

Burch Minow

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On my tenth wedding anniversary, I found my celebrity therapist husband naked with our housekeeper. He called it "somatic therapy." I was pregnant with our miracle baby and secretly battling a brain tumor. But when his lover faked a fall and a miscarriage, framing me for it, he chose her. The fall caused me to lose my actual baby. As I lay bleeding on the floor, my husband scoffed, "Don't play games, Alexis," and rushed her to the hospital. He then had me committed to a psychiatric facility, publicly painting me as delusional to protect his reputation and his affair. He thought he had gotten rid of me forever. But he didn't know my sister would break me out. He didn't know I would fake my own death to escape. Now, I'm back. And I'm about to teach the good doctor a lesson in consequences.

My Celebrity Therapist's Cruel Deception Chapter 1

On my tenth wedding anniversary, I found my celebrity therapist husband naked with our housekeeper. He called it "somatic therapy." I was pregnant with our miracle baby and secretly battling a brain tumor.

But when his lover faked a fall and a miscarriage, framing me for it, he chose her.

The fall caused me to lose my actual baby. As I lay bleeding on the floor, my husband scoffed, "Don't play games, Alexis," and rushed her to the hospital.

He then had me committed to a psychiatric facility, publicly painting me as delusional to protect his reputation and his affair.

He thought he had gotten rid of me forever.

But he didn't know my sister would break me out. He didn't know I would fake my own death to escape.

Now, I'm back. And I'm about to teach the good doctor a lesson in consequences.

Chapter 1

My ten-year wedding anniversary. I woke up with a smile, the scent of fresh coffee filling our bedroom, but Carlton was already gone, a note on his pillow saying "urgent patient." It was always an urgent patient, always a crisis that pulled him away from us, from me. My chest tightened, a familiar ache. I wanted this day to be different.

I spent the morning baking his favorite almond cake, the kitchen filled with the sweet, nutty aroma. I hummed a tune, picturing his surprised face, his rare, genuine smile. I dressed in the silk dress he once said made me look like an angel, a foolish hope flaring in my chest that he might actually come home to celebrate.

By afternoon, he still wasn't back. The cake sat untouched. The hope in my heart dwindled, replaced by a dull throb. I called his clinic, but his assistant said he was in a "deep somatic therapy session," strictly no interruptions.

Deep somatic therapy. My husband, Dr. Carlton Mejia, the renowned celebrity therapist, was a master of it. He believed in healing trauma through body-based techniques. It was his signature, his path to fame and fortune.

A nagging feeling, a cold claw in my gut, told me to go to him. I packed a slice of the cake, a thermos of his favorite artisanal tea, and drove to his private clinic. The clinic was quiet, the waiting room empty. I walked down the familiar hallway, my heels clicking softly on the polished marble. The door to his private therapy room was ajar.

I pushed it open, a little smile playing on my lips, ready to surprise him. The smile froze. My breath hitched. The thermos slipped from my trembling fingers, crashing to the floor, the tea spilling in a dark, warm puddle.

Carlton was there, on the plush velvet therapy couch, his back to me. Naked. And so was Carmen Hodges, our former housekeeper, fired just two weeks ago for pilfering expensive trinkets. She was straddling him, her head thrown back, her hair a wild mess against the pristine cushions. Her skin, usually pale, was flushed crimson. Her back, visible to me, was a canvas of fresh, angry red marks, unmistakable evidence of the brutal passion that had just consumed them.

A gurgle of sound escaped her throat, a primal moan that ripped through the silence, confirming the intimacy I was witnessing. My ears buzzed. My vision tunnelled. No. This isn't happening.

"Oh, Carlton," Carmen whispered, her voice thick with fake vulnerability, "You saved me. Again. I don't know what I would do without you."

Carlton's arm, draped over her back, tightened. He murmured something I couldn't quite hear, but the tenderness in his tone was a knife twisting in my heart. The kind of tenderness he hadn't shown me in years. Not even a shred of it.

The sound of the thermos shattering, the clatter of ceramic on marble, finally pierced their bubble. Carmen shrieked, scrambling off Carlton, trying to cover herself with a throw pillow. Carlton, already pushing her away, turned, his eyes wide with shock, then quickly hardening when he saw me.

"Alexis?" His voice was a strained whisper, laced with disbelief. "What are you doing here?"

Before I could form a coherent thought, the clinic door burst open. A burly man, reeking of stale beer and desperation, stormed in. Bud Moody. Carmen' s estranged husband. His eyes, bloodshot and wild, landed on Carlton.

"You bastard!" Bud roared, his face contorted with rage. "You swore you wouldn't touch my wife again!" He lunged at Carlton, a wild punch connecting with Carlton's jaw. Carlton stumbled back, a shocked grunt escaping his lips.

Carmen, now cowering behind Carlton, wailed, "Bud, stop! He was helping me! He's my therapist!"

The commotion brought more people. Clinic staff, then uniformed police officers, sirens wailing faintly from outside. The scene was a chaotic tableau of nudity, spilled tea, and raw violence.

Carlton, ever the professional, quickly composed himself, adjusting the blanket Carmen had now wrapped herself in. He looked at her, his eyes full of concern. "Are you alright, Carmen?" He then turned to the police, his face a mask of calm authority. "Officers, this is a misunderstanding. My patient, Ms. Hodges, was undergoing a radical somatic therapy session to address her severe PTSD and suicidal ideation. Her estranged husband, Mr. Moody, has misinterpreted the situation."

He said it with such conviction, such professional gravitas, that the officers looked genuinely confused. They looked from Carmen, still trembling and tearful, to Bud, who was now being restrained, shouting incoherently.

Carmen, ever the actress, nodded weakly, tears streaming down her face. "He... he was helping me. I was so broken. He's trying to save me."

Carlton' s eyes flickered to me, a brief, almost imperceptible glance of annoyance, then quickly returned to Carmen, reassuring her with a gentle nod. He was protecting her. Her reputation, her dignity. Mine? I was just the inconvenient wife who walked in at the wrong time.

The police, baffled by Carlton's medical jargon and Carmen' s theatrical distress, decided it wasn't a domestic dispute in the traditional sense, but a bizarre "therapy incident." They took Bud away for assault, leaving Carlton to "manage" his "patient."

Carlton approached me, his lips a thin line. "Alexis, you shouldn't have come here. This is highly unprofessional, and you've jeopardized a delicate therapeutic process."

My head pounded. The words were a bitter taste in my mouth. "Unprofessional? You were having sex with our housekeeper, Carlton!"

He sighed, running a hand through his perfectly styled hair. "It's not what you think. It's a complex, experimental approach for extreme cases. Carmen was on the brink."

I stared at him, my heart turning to ice. He was lying. Or he truly believed his own self-serving delusion. He looked away, then back to Carmen, who was now being helped by another therapist. "I need to ensure Carmen is stable. This has been very traumatic for her."

He left me standing there, amidst the shattered porcelain and spilled tea, his back a wall of indifference. I watched him go, my chest tight. The man I had loved for a decade, the man I had chased relentlessly, had just chosen a manipulative con artist over me.

I drove home on autopilot, the world outside a blur of lights and noise. Our elegant house, once a sanctuary, now felt like a tomb. I walked into our bedroom, the room where we had shared so many intimate moments, where we had built a life, or so I thought. My eyes fell on the framed wedding photo on the bedside table. We looked so happy, so in love. A cruel joke.

I remembered the early days, my foolish infatuation with him. He was older, established, a brilliant but distant man. I was a young heiress, used to getting what I wanted, but he was the one who resisted. He rejected my advances, claiming he was too focused on his career, too damaged from a past relationship. But I saw something in him, a flicker of vulnerability beneath the stoic facade. I was so sure I could melt it.

I pursued him relentlessly, sending him gifts, attending his lectures, finding excuses to be near him. My friends called me obsessed. My family worried. But I was convinced I was the one for him. And eventually, after years, he relented. He said he saw my sincerity, my unwavering devotion. He said I was the light that could guide him out of his self-imposed darkness.

I believed him. I poured all my love, my wealth, my very being into making him happy. I thought I had succeeded. I thought I had earned his love, his respect. But today, I saw the truth. He never loved me. He loved the image I presented, the stable, wealthy wife. He loved the way I adored him, fed his ego.

He returned hours later, his face calm, almost serene, as if nothing had happened. He walked past me in the living room, heading straight for the kitchen. "Are you going to make dinner, Alexis?" His voice was flat, devoid of any emotion.

My hands clenched. The facade shattered. "Carlton, what about Carmen? What was that today?"

He turned, a faint frown on his face. "I told you. Somatic therapy. She's a very fragile patient. She was suicidal. I had no choice."

"No choice?" My voice rose, cracking with disbelief. "You had a choice, Carlton! You could have referred her elsewhere! You could have told me! You could have chosen your wife!"

He sighed, his eyes distant. "Alexis, you're being irrational. This is a medical matter. You don't understand the complexities of treating such severe trauma." He used his "therapist voice," calm and condescending. The voice he used to placate difficult patients, to dismiss inconvenient truths.

I felt a dizzying wave wash over me, a chilling realization that he would never admit to what he had done. He would twist it, rationalize it, pathologize my reaction. He would make me the problem.

He stared at me, his gaze clinically assessing. "You seem agitated, Alexis. Perhaps you need to rest. I'll arrange for a sedative if you like."

My blood ran cold. He was trying to gaslight me, to medicate my very real pain into a delusion. But he didn't know everything. He didn't know I was pregnant. And he didn't know about the ticking time bomb in my own head.

A fierce resolve ignited in my chest, burning away the despair. No. I wouldn't be medicated, wouldn't be dismissed. I had to protect myself. I had to protect my baby. I had to fight.

"No," I said, my voice barely a whisper, but firm. "I don't need a sedative. I need a clear head. And I'm going to get one."

I walked away from him, leaving him standing in the kitchen, his therapist mask firmly in place. My mind raced, forming a plan. A desperate, dangerous plan. A plan fueled by betrayal and a fierce, primal need to survive.

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“On my tenth wedding anniversary, I found my celebrity therapist husband naked with our housekeeper. He called it "somatic therapy." I was pregnant with our miracle baby and secretly battling a brain tumor. But when his lover faked a fall and a miscarriage, framing me for it, he chose her. The fall caused me to lose my actual baby. As I lay bleeding on the floor, my husband scoffed, "Don't play games, Alexis," and rushed her to the hospital. He then had me committed to a psychiatric facility, publicly painting me as delusional to protect his reputation and his affair. He thought he had gotten rid of me forever. But he didn't know my sister would break me out. He didn't know I would fake my own death to escape. Now, I'm back. And I'm about to teach the good doctor a lesson in consequences.”
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