Discarded Wife Builds Her Own World

Discarded Wife Builds Her Own World

Tamarah Lupton

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My husband' s mistress pushed me overboard while I was pregnant. I lost our baby and had an emergency hysterectomy, leaving me barren. When my husband finally visited the hospital, it wasn't to comfort me, but to tell me to get ready for a party. "You'll need your strength to face the cameras," he said, annoyed that I hadn't touched my food. His grandmother was even worse. She slapped me, calling me a "shameless hussy" for failing to keep my husband in line. "You failed to produce a male heir," she spat. "You're useless, Elisa. Utterly, completely useless!" They thought I was the same woman who would silently absorb their cruelty. But the woman who loved him died with our child. I was just a tool they were ready to discard. So I stopped her hand mid-air. "We're done," I said, pushing the divorce papers and a small voice recorder across the bed. "A man who lets his mistress murder his unborn child... that's not a good look for your 'legacy,' is it?"

Discarded Wife Builds Her Own World Chapter 1

My husband' s mistress pushed me overboard while I was pregnant. I lost our baby and had an emergency hysterectomy, leaving me barren. When my husband finally visited the hospital, it wasn't to comfort me, but to tell me to get ready for a party.

"You'll need your strength to face the cameras," he said, annoyed that I hadn't touched my food.

His grandmother was even worse. She slapped me, calling me a "shameless hussy" for failing to keep my husband in line.

"You failed to produce a male heir," she spat. "You're useless, Elisa. Utterly, completely useless!"

They thought I was the same woman who would silently absorb their cruelty. But the woman who loved him died with our child. I was just a tool they were ready to discard.

So I stopped her hand mid-air. "We're done," I said, pushing the divorce papers and a small voice recorder across the bed. "A man who lets his mistress murder his unborn child... that's not a good look for your 'legacy,' is it?"

Chapter 1

Elisa POV:

The cold water swallowed me whole that New Year's Eve, a final, cruel gift from my husband and his mistress. I felt the sharp thrust, the icy shock, and then the searing pain as my unborn child slipped away, all while Kiyoshi watched from the yacht railing, his face a mask of indifference. Heidi Ray, Kiyoshi' s latest conquest and a social media darling, had pushed me. Her red dress, identical to the one Kiyoshi had bought me for our first anniversary, had shimmered under the moonlight as she laughed.

I clawed at the churning water. Heidi leaned over the railing, her voice dripping with venom. "Did you really think Kiyoshi would choose you? A charity case? You're nothing but a placeholder, Elisa." Her words were like daggers, twisted inside the wound she had already inflicted. I saw Kiyoshi then, standing beside her, his hand resting casually on her back. He just watched, a silent accomplice to the murder of our child.

The chaos on the yacht was a distant buzz. All I heard was the blood pounding in my ears. I felt the first gush, warm and sticky, staining the icy water around me. I knew, with a terrifying certainty, that it was over. My baby, our baby, was gone.

Days later, in a sterile hospital room, Kiyoshi visited. He didn't ask about the miscarriage. He didn't ask about the emergency hysterectomy, the doctors' grim faces, or the fact I could never carry a child again. Instead, he frowned at my untouched meal. "Are you going to starve yourself, Elisa? Grandmother said you need to eat to recover. There' s a party next week, and you' ll need your strength to face the cameras."

His words were flat, devoid of warmth. He spoke as if I had merely caught a common cold, not lost a child and my ability to have more. The party, the cameras-that was all that mattered. My pain was an inconvenience, a smudge on the Donovan family's pristine image.

I saw the dismissive shrug in his shoulders, the way he glanced at the door, clearly eager to leave. He knew, or he should have known, what I had endured. Yet, he minimized it, reduced my living nightmare to a mere annoyance. He truly believed I was still the same Elisa, the one who would silently absorb his cruelty. He thought I would always bend, always break, then piece myself back together for him.

But something inside me had snapped. The loss had ripped away the last vestiges of my hope, my love, my sanity. I stared at the ceiling, a single, silent tear tracing a path down my temple. I was done. This gilded cage, this suffocating marriage, this twisted game-it was over.

I would free myself, no matter the cost. My freedom would be paid for in blood, in tears, in the ashes of my dreams. But it would be mine. I would walk away from the Donovans, from Kiyoshi, from the ghost of a life I had foolishly believed in. I would build a new future, one brick at a time, for myself.

Meanwhile, Kiyoshi was living his life of excess. The tabloids plastered his face across every page. He was back on the party circuit, his arm wrapped around Heidi Ray, a different designer dress on her every night. Champagne flowed like water. The Donovan name was synonymous with scandal, but not in a way that truly threatened their empire. It was just Kiyoshi being Kiyoshi, the handsome, rebellious heir.

Joette Donovan, Kiyoshi's grandmother and the family matriarch, was less amused. The clatter of shattering porcelain echoed through the mansion's halls. She was furious about the public spectacle, about the potential harm to the Donovan legacy. She paced her study, her voice a low, dangerous rumble that even the servants feared. "He's a fool! A damned fool destroying everything I built!"

Kiyoshi, of course, was nowhere to be found. He' d vanished before Joette' s fury could fully ignite, leaving the storm brewing. And as always, the responsibility for managing the fallout fell to me.

Bernard, the stoic head butler, approached my bedside, his face impassive. "Madam, Mrs. Donovan requests your presence in the study. She wishes to discuss the recent unfortunate events and Mr. Kiyoshi's behavior." His tone was polite, distant, a practiced blend of deference and cold detachment. It was the same tone all the servants used with me, a constant reminder that no matter my title, I was an outsider, a temporary fixture.

My gaze drifted to the window. Rain lashed against the panes, mirroring the tempest within me. For years, I had tolerated their disdain, their manipulations, their abuse. I had been the good wife, the understanding daughter-in-law, the silent observer of my own slow demise. Every slight, every cutting remark, every betrayal had chipped away at my soul.

But no more. The shell of the old Elisa had cracked, shattering with the loss of my child. A fierce, unyielding resolve had taken root in its place. I would not be their pawn, their scapegoat, their obedient pet any longer.

I met Bernard's gaze, my voice steady. "Tell Mrs. Donovan that I am indisposed. I will not be attending." The words, simple yet revolutionary, hung in the air. Bernard's eyes widened imperceptibly, a flicker of surprise in their depth.

"Madam?" he questioned, his voice betraying a hint of confusion. No one, not ever, refused Joette Donovan.

"Tell her," I repeated, my voice gaining strength, "that if she wishes to speak with me, she may come to me. I am exhausted, Bernard. Physically, mentally, and emotionally." My hand instinctively went to my still-tender abdomen. The pain was a constant, dull throb, a stark reminder of everything I had lost, and everything I was determined to reclaim. This was my line in the sand, drawn with the blood of my unborn child.

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“My husband' s mistress pushed me overboard while I was pregnant. I lost our baby and had an emergency hysterectomy, leaving me barren. When my husband finally visited the hospital, it wasn't to comfort me, but to tell me to get ready for a party. "You'll need your strength to face the cameras," he said, annoyed that I hadn't touched my food. His grandmother was even worse. She slapped me, calling me a "shameless hussy" for failing to keep my husband in line. "You failed to produce a male heir," she spat. "You're useless, Elisa. Utterly, completely useless!" They thought I was the same woman who would silently absorb their cruelty. But the woman who loved him died with our child. I was just a tool they were ready to discard. So I stopped her hand mid-air. "We're done," I said, pushing the divorce papers and a small voice recorder across the bed. "A man who lets his mistress murder his unborn child... that's not a good look for your 'legacy,' is it?"”
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