The Secrets She Died To Protect

“My wife, Ava, was dead. I felt nothing but relief. For five years, I had orchestrated her downfall-ruining her family and her reputation-as payback for trapping me in a marriage and tearing me away from the woman I loved. My revenge was complete. Then, a week after she died alone in a park, my investigator called. He told me Ava had been secretly battling a terminal brain tumor for our entire five-year marriage. Suddenly, everything made a horrifying kind of sense. Her constant hospital visits weren't for an affair. The child I accused her of aborting was a pregnancy her dying body couldn't handle. My every act of cruelty had been inflicted on an innocent, dying woman. But why? Why endure my hatred in silence? Why let me believe she was a monster when she was the one suffering? The final piece of the puzzle arrived in a second phone call, revealing the one secret she died to protect. The woman I thought she'd stolen from me, Angella, was never my lover. She was my sister. And I had destroyed my wife for a lie.”