Wreckage of a Marriage

Wreckage of a Marriage

Mo Moqi

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The silence in our house became a tomb after Liam, my husband, returned a war hero. But the man who sat across from me was a ghost, his eyes vacant, haunted by a wall only he could see. Then Scarlett, his childhood friend turned trauma therapist, arrived, convinced only she could save him. She systematically poisoned our marriage, each act a deliberate, insidious cut, turning Liam against me until he no longer saw me, only her, the broken bird he felt compelled to save. When a horrific car crash left me bleeding and broken, Liam' s panic-filled voice screamed for Scarlett. He chose her, again, leaving me in the wreckage, forcing me to sign divorce papers, sending me away like discarded trash. I rebuilt my life 500 miles away, finding peace and even a flicker of new love with Ethan, but Scarlett wouldn' t let go. She stalked me, attacked me, even kidnapped and tried to murder me in a fiery warehouse, always with Liam's complicity, his misplaced loyalty forcing me to bleed for her survival. How could I comprehend a love so warped it enabled such cruelty, and a man so blind he couldn't see the monster he protected? But the day Scarlett, in a final, insane act of rage, deliberately drove her car to kill me and Ethan, everything changed. Ethan, my brave, kind Ethan, threw himself in front of me, taking the full impact, and in that horrifying moment, I found a strength I never knew I had.

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The silence in our house became a tomb after Liam, my husband, returned a war hero.

But the man who sat across from me was a ghost, his eyes vacant, haunted by a wall only he could see.

Then Scarlett, his childhood friend turned trauma therapist, arrived, convinced only she could save him.

She systematically poisoned our marriage, each act a deliberate, insidious cut, turning Liam against me until he no longer saw me, only her, the broken bird he felt compelled to save.

When a horrific car crash left me bleeding and broken, Liam' s panic-filled voice screamed for Scarlett.

He chose her, again, leaving me in the wreckage, forcing me to sign divorce papers, sending me away like discarded trash.

I rebuilt my life 500 miles away, finding peace and even a flicker of new love with Ethan, but Scarlett wouldn' t let go.

She stalked me, attacked me, even kidnapped and tried to murder me in a fiery warehouse, always with Liam's complicity, his misplaced loyalty forcing me to bleed for her survival.

How could I comprehend a love so warped it enabled such cruelty, and a man so blind he couldn't see the monster he protected?

But the day Scarlett, in a final, insane act of rage, deliberately drove her car to kill me and Ethan, everything changed.

Ethan, my brave, kind Ethan, threw himself in front of me, taking the full impact, and in that horrifying moment, I found a strength I never knew I had.

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