His Gilded Cage: A Husband's Escape

His Gilded Cage: A Husband's Escape

Gavin

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It was our tenth wedding anniversary, but the party felt exactly like the nine humiliating ones before it. My wife, Vanessa Thorne, a dazzling socialite to the world, was my warden, and tonight, she paraded her newest "toy," a young model named Liam. "Show him the ropes," she purred, her eyes alight with cruel amusement, forcing me, her husband, to mentor her latest conquest in how to "please her." As the guests snickered, the subtext was clear: "Show him how to be my pet, just like you." For ten years, I had been her gilded prisoner, my father's mounting medical bills the chain around my neck, paid for by the Thorne family. But tonight, something inside me snapped. "No," I whispered, then louder, "No. I won't." I met her eyes and declared, "Vanessa, I want a divorce." The room erupted in laughter, and Vanessa sneered, "You always come crawling back. You have nothing. You are nothing without me." She was right; ninety-nine times, I had failed, but this was the hundredth. I pulled out a printed divorce agreement, a symbol of my resolve. In response, she snatched my champagne and flung it in my face, hissing, "Have you forgotten what you are? You belong to me." Then, for her audience, she commanded, "Get on your knees, Ethan. Crawl to me. Bark like the dog you are." Soaked, shaking, and utterly broken, I knelt, the marble cold beneath me, and whimpered, "Woof." That night, locked in my studio, the phone rang: my father was dying. I pounded on the door, screaming, "Vanessa! Let me out! He's dying!" Her reply, cynical and cold, echoed through the wood, "Another trick? It's pathetic." She left me there, and a primal fury ignited. I smashed the window, cut myself on the glass, and fashioned a rope from canvas. I barely made it down, landing hard and breaking my ankle, but I crawled through hedges, alarms blaring. On the street, a sleek black sedan pulled up. A woman, Sarah Jenkins, offered, "You look like you're in trouble." I gasped, "I need to get to the hospital. My father..." "Get in," she said, her voice calm and steady. At the emergency room, I heard it: "Mr. Miller... just passed a few minutes ago." My father was gone. The chain was broken. A strange, terrifying sense of freedom washed over me, a feeling of nothing left to lose. I clutched Sarah's card, a lifeline in my hand, and whispered, "I'm so, so tired of fighting."

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It was our tenth wedding anniversary, but the party felt exactly like the nine humiliating ones before it.

My wife, Vanessa Thorne, a dazzling socialite to the world, was my warden, and tonight, she paraded her newest "toy," a young model named Liam.

"Show him the ropes," she purred, her eyes alight with cruel amusement, forcing me, her husband, to mentor her latest conquest in how to "please her."

As the guests snickered, the subtext was clear: "Show him how to be my pet, just like you."

For ten years, I had been her gilded prisoner, my father's mounting medical bills the chain around my neck, paid for by the Thorne family.

But tonight, something inside me snapped.

"No," I whispered, then louder, "No. I won't."

I met her eyes and declared, "Vanessa, I want a divorce."

The room erupted in laughter, and Vanessa sneered, "You always come crawling back. You have nothing. You are nothing without me."

She was right; ninety-nine times, I had failed, but this was the hundredth.

I pulled out a printed divorce agreement, a symbol of my resolve.

In response, she snatched my champagne and flung it in my face, hissing, "Have you forgotten what you are? You belong to me."

Then, for her audience, she commanded, "Get on your knees, Ethan. Crawl to me. Bark like the dog you are."

Soaked, shaking, and utterly broken, I knelt, the marble cold beneath me, and whimpered, "Woof."

That night, locked in my studio, the phone rang: my father was dying.

I pounded on the door, screaming, "Vanessa! Let me out! He's dying!"

Her reply, cynical and cold, echoed through the wood, "Another trick? It's pathetic."

She left me there, and a primal fury ignited.

I smashed the window, cut myself on the glass, and fashioned a rope from canvas.

I barely made it down, landing hard and breaking my ankle, but I crawled through hedges, alarms blaring.

On the street, a sleek black sedan pulled up.

A woman, Sarah Jenkins, offered, "You look like you're in trouble."

I gasped, "I need to get to the hospital. My father..."

"Get in," she said, her voice calm and steady.

At the emergency room, I heard it: "Mr. Miller... just passed a few minutes ago."

My father was gone.

The chain was broken.

A strange, terrifying sense of freedom washed over me, a feeling of nothing left to lose.

I clutched Sarah's card, a lifeline in my hand, and whispered, "I'm so, so tired of fighting."

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