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THE DAY MY HUSBAND CHOSE HER

THE DAY MY HUSBAND CHOSE HER

Author: ABBYO
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Chapter 1 THE ANNIVERSARY SURPRISE

Word Count: 1356    |    Released on: 07/10/2026

ight that, honestly, she hoped would remind her husband

he had ever

e the room was filled with white roses, because Lucian once said they reminded him of their first winter together. Dinner waited in the next

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s per

ng for their anniversary. She wanted to show him she

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7 p

id he'd be th

sappointment pulled at her. He was probab

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yea

m away from the meetings, the family, the reputation that came with being a

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ob

me. She hadn't

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nne L

events with him, always seemed to know where he was when Seraphina didn't. She'd once smiled a

'd even defended her when peopl

around the bottle, dig

uld hav

way before seeing someth

e pushed th

le in her hand, but the chilled champagne beside the b

lk dress o

hite shirt hanging open, dark hair a mess. Vi

na just

ed for any innoc

wasn

spun unde

g day, their first apartment, quiet mornings before work, anniversaries

watching the man she'd trusted with

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unded strang

heet tighter. Lucian didn't move, didn't sc

most more th

me the man she thought she knew. The man who'd com

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ooked me in the eyes and

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back. Silenc

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, Lucia

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ightened. Maybe, for a second, something lik

ould go

e she waited for him to come back? The bed growing colder? Where s

into h

n wat

box, stared at it, then set it

ed, puzzled.

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anniv

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erself not to break down in front of them. Five years spent

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hadn't stumbled into her husband's affair-s

rs were about to open a door to a secret that

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“For five years, Seraphina Vale believed she had everything a woman could ask for-a beautiful marriage, a powerful husband, and a love she thought would last forever. Then, on their fifth wedding anniversary, she walks into a private hotel suite carrying a surprise gift for Lucian Cross and finds him in bed with the woman his family has always wanted him to marry. Vivienne Laurent. What hurts more than the betrayal is Lucian's reaction. He doesn't deny it. He doesn't beg for forgiveness. Instead, he places divorce papers in front of Seraphina and calmly tells her that their marriage has been over for a long time. Heartbroken and humiliated, Seraphina walks away from the man she loved without knowing that her divorce is about to change everything. Hours after leaving Lucian, she is approached by a lawyer hired by her late mother, carrying a secret that has been buried for twenty-five years. Seraphina's mother was never the ordinary woman Seraphina believed her to be. She was Isolde Vale-the last heir of the mysterious Vale Dynasty, a family whose fortune vanished after a devastating betrayal twenty-five years ago. And Seraphina is the sole heir. The divorce has activated a trust deliberately designed to protect her inheritance from anyone who might marry her for money. Suddenly, the woman Lucian discarded has become the owner of an empire his family has spent decades secretly profiting from. But the inheritance comes with a terrifying discovery. The Cross family is connected to the disappearance of the Vale fortune. Worse, evidence suggests that Lucian's father knew exactly who Seraphina was before Lucian ever married her. Was her marriage to Lucian really love? Or was she unknowingly placed at the center of a twenty-five-year-old scheme? As Seraphina begins uncovering the truth, she returns to the world that once dismissed her-not as Lucian Cross's abandoned wife, but as the woman who now holds the power to destroy everything his family built. And Lucian soon realizes the greatest mistake of his life was not losing his wife. It was believing she would remain powerless after he chose another woman. But revenge becomes complicated when Seraphina discovers that Lucian's betrayal was only part of the truth-and that the man who broke her heart may have been manipulated by secrets he never knew existed. Now she must uncover who destroyed her family, why her mother hid her identity, and whether Lucian was ever truly her enemy. Because before Seraphina can decide whether she will forgive the man who betrayed her, she must first discover the truth about the marriage that was never supposed to be love.”