His Unwanted Wife: The Genius Perfumer

His Unwanted Wife: The Genius Perfumer

Jun Wen

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For three years, Breanna gave up her brilliant career as a top-tier perfumer to be the perfect housewife for her billionaire husband, Hartwell. But when he finally returned from a three-month business trip to Paris, he didn't even glance at the dinner she had carefully prepared. Instead, he threw a divorce agreement on the table. He gave her thirty days to move out and offered a ridiculously low settlement. When she cried and asked if there was someone else, he looked at her with absolute disgust. "You used to smell like ambition and possibility. Now you smell like cooking oil and the desperation of a woman who has nothing outside her husband. You're a trap." He threatened to bury her in legal fees if she didn't sign. Heartbroken and confused, Breanna forced his assistant to reveal what really happened in Paris. The truth was humiliating. Hartwell had been spending all his time with a twenty-six-year-old genius perfumer-a girl who was the exact mirror image of who Breanna used to be before she sacrificed everything for him. He didn't just want a new woman. He wanted a younger, untainted replacement of her past self. Wiping away her tears, Breanna's grief instantly hardened into cold, calculated rage. She tore up his insulting settlement and prepared to fight back, completely unaware that her cruel husband was currently hiding in a hotel room, coughing up blood, deliberately playing the villain to force her to survive his impending death.

His Unwanted Wife: The Genius Perfumer Chapter 1 1

Breanna Estrada set the coq au vin onto the marble dining table. It was the fifth time she had reheated it.

She glanced at the antique grandfather clock mounted on the far wall.

Nine o'clock sharp.

Four hours had passed since Hartwell's flight from Paris touched down at JFK Airport. And from that moment on, she had been checking her phone every ninety seconds.

Her outgoing messages stretched out in a long, unanswered chain. Ninety days of questions and hopes cast into a digital void, not one of them marked "Read."

A bolt of lightning split the night sky outside.

In the October downpour, the traffic outside had merged into a river of red taillights. She searched the slow-crawling stream of cars for the black silhouette of his Maybach, knowing full well it was futile - knowing he could be anywhere, except here with her.

She wrapped her arms around herself, her fingers digging deep into her ribs. The unyielding image of his back as he had left for Paris three months earlier flashed clearly in her mind.

Before she knew it, Breanna was standing in front of the wine cabinet, its door standing open. Inside was Hartwell's favorite Bordeaux - a 2015 Château Margaux, which they had bought together in Saint-Émilion. Back then, they had been inseparable; as they wandered through the vineyards, his hand would always rest gently on the small of her back.

She twisted the corkscrew and pulled too hard.

Red wine splashed out violently, staining her white silk dress. The rich liquid soaked through the fabric and clung to her stomach. Breanna grabbed a kitchen towel and dabbed frantically, but the stain only spread instead of fading, blooming outward like something alive, as if bleeding.

The coq au vin on the table grew cold, and her eyes stung.

A wave of helplessness washed over her. Three years ago, she had not been this broken.

Three years prior, she had stood in a laboratory in Grasse, identifying fragrance bases blindfolded. Jasmine absolute. Vetiver. And the kind of ambergris that cost more per ounce than the monthly maintenance fee for this entire apartment. She had been confident and certain back then. Now she could not even recall the chemical structure of linalool without looking it up on her phone.

A sudden vibration jolted her, and her elbow slammed hard against the table.

Breanna lunged for the sofa where her phone had landed face-down. Her fingers closed around it, trembling, nearly desperate.

But the message was not from the man she had been yearning for.

It was spam.

AT&T: Your monthly statement is ready.

She hurled the phone away. It struck the velvet sofa and slid onto the carpet, its screen facing up and glowing. The wallpaper was from Paris three years ago, at the Salon du Parfum. She had been smiling brightly and sincerely, her arm linked through Hartwell's as they stood in front of her first award. Staring at the woman in the photo, she felt nothing but contempt for the stranger she had become.

Breanna drifted toward the entryway in a daze. Hartwell's leather slippers still sat by the door, slightly askew since his last departure. She aligned them with obsessive precision - toe to toe, heel to heel. Order and neatness were all she still had control over.

The smart home panel flickered. Outside temperature: 47 degrees Fahrenheit and falling. She turned up the thermostat to 78 degrees. Warm air gusted from the vents, carrying a faint, familiar scent.

Cedarwood. Bergamot. Hartwell's signature fragrance base - steady, cool, just like him.

Her head snapped toward the hallway. The study door was closed and silent, yet her heart hammered violently against her ribs. She took three silent, barefoot steps in that direction.

Nothing. No light seeped from under the door. No sound of his briefcase hitting his desk.

She returned to the dining table. The knife felt alien in her hand as she cut into the chicken. Cold fat coated her tongue. The slimy, unpleasant texture triggered a primal nausea in her throat.

Breanna barely made it to the guest bathroom before her stomach heaved. She gripped the porcelain sink, dry-retching, tears splashing into the basin. She looked up.

The mirror reflected a woman with hollow cheeks and colorless lips - someone who flinched at her own reflection. She turned on the faucet and splashed cold water hard against her face until her skin stung, until the sharp chill pulled her scattered thoughts back into a fragile coherence.

A chime cut through the running water.

Breanna froze, her hands still dripping, her gaze locked on the bathroom door. The sound came again - the private elevator, the tone that only rang for the penthouse.

Red numbers glowed on the hallway display: PH.

The lock clicked softly.

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“For three years, Breanna gave up her brilliant career as a top-tier perfumer to be the perfect housewife for her billionaire husband, Hartwell. But when he finally returned from a three-month business trip to Paris, he didn't even glance at the dinner she had carefully prepared. Instead, he threw a divorce agreement on the table. He gave her thirty days to move out and offered a ridiculously low settlement. When she cried and asked if there was someone else, he looked at her with absolute disgust. "You used to smell like ambition and possibility. Now you smell like cooking oil and the desperation of a woman who has nothing outside her husband. You're a trap." He threatened to bury her in legal fees if she didn't sign. Heartbroken and confused, Breanna forced his assistant to reveal what really happened in Paris. The truth was humiliating. Hartwell had been spending all his time with a twenty-six-year-old genius perfumer-a girl who was the exact mirror image of who Breanna used to be before she sacrificed everything for him. He didn't just want a new woman. He wanted a younger, untainted replacement of her past self. Wiping away her tears, Breanna's grief instantly hardened into cold, calculated rage. She tore up his insulting settlement and prepared to fight back, completely unaware that her cruel husband was currently hiding in a hotel room, coughing up blood, deliberately playing the villain to force her to survive his impending death.”
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