Discarded Husband, Rising Mogul

Discarded Husband, Rising Mogul

Gavin

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Tonight was our tenth anniversary, wrapping up ten years of a meticulously kept contractual marriage. For a decade, I, Ethan Lester, had been the silent architect behind my wife Sabrina Chadwick' s booming real estate empire. I managed her entire life, a dutiful husband and housekeeper, all to repay her for saving my father' s life. But then, she walked in, not alone, but with a smug-faced young man. "So this is the famous kept man," Caleb sneered, his words echoing through our Manhattan penthouse lobby. Sabrina, my wife, my partner of ten years, pulled him towards the elevator, her expression chillingly indifferent, utterly ignoring me. She didn' t care that her protégé was publicly humiliating me. She didn' t care what I felt when I overheard them that night, or the next morning when she ordered me to make them breakfast. I had been nothing but a loyal servant, and now, even that seemed to be beneath her consideration. I was left on a gurney in a crowded hospital hallway with a broken ankle after a car crash SHE forced me into, while she pampered Caleb over a scratch. That was the moment I realized the ultimate insult: I was just a possession, easily discarded. When the doctor asked for my family contacts, I looked him dead in the eye and said, "I have no family. Take her name off." I had been a fool to ever think love could bloom from a bargain, or that I could ever truly matter to her. Now, instead of cleaning her mess, I' m building my own empire. She desperately wants me back, but she has no idea what' s coming.

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Tonight was our tenth anniversary, wrapping up ten years of a meticulously kept contractual marriage.

For a decade, I, Ethan Lester, had been the silent architect behind my wife Sabrina Chadwick' s booming real estate empire.

I managed her entire life, a dutiful husband and housekeeper, all to repay her for saving my father' s life.

But then, she walked in, not alone, but with a smug-faced young man.

"So this is the famous kept man," Caleb sneered, his words echoing through our Manhattan penthouse lobby.

Sabrina, my wife, my partner of ten years, pulled him towards the elevator, her expression chillingly indifferent, utterly ignoring me.

She didn' t care that her protégé was publicly humiliating me.

She didn' t care what I felt when I overheard them that night, or the next morning when she ordered me to make them breakfast.

I had been nothing but a loyal servant, and now, even that seemed to be beneath her consideration.

I was left on a gurney in a crowded hospital hallway with a broken ankle after a car crash SHE forced me into, while she pampered Caleb over a scratch.

That was the moment I realized the ultimate insult: I was just a possession, easily discarded.

When the doctor asked for my family contacts, I looked him dead in the eye and said, "I have no family. Take her name off."

I had been a fool to ever think love could bloom from a bargain, or that I could ever truly matter to her.

Now, instead of cleaning her mess, I' m building my own empire.

She desperately wants me back, but she has no idea what' s coming.

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