The Wife He Destroyed, Reborn

brace, her eyes fluttering a

ce soft and weak. "I just heard shouting. I

hant in her eyes before it was replaced by a loo

if I were a child throwing a tantrum. He looked back at me, his face hard again. "You see what you'

who had been lied to, choked, and thrown against a

thy. She gently touched his arm. "I know Ava has always been... a little obsessed

my past, our childhood, into something ugly. She was suggesting I ha

drank i

what this is? Ten years of you playing the dutiful wife, all while you

amily is the same. Your mother, raising you two on her own after your father left. Always lookin

My father had left us with nothing. My mother had worked two jo

to a story of greed and social cli

e," I whispered,

our lies. Chloe is here now. The woman I was al

the room, settling her on t

I said, finding a

bedroom. It belongs to the master and mistress of the house. That' s

softening into one of adoration. Then he

cook her meals, you' ll do her laundry. You will do whatever

in my own home. I was to wait on the woman who had stolen my life, w

t do it. I

pt out of the tiny guest room. The house felt alien, a place of to

rapped protectively around Chloe, his hand resting on her stomach. Th

A sob escaped my lips, raw and broken. I clamp

aking as I scrolled to the one numbe

o

, desperate to

g. "Ava? Honey, what' s wrong?

tears flowing freely now.

firm and full of love. "Of course, baby. Of cours

ed to hear those words. A wave of relief washed o

ddress, my voice

on as I can, Ava. Just

r, clutching the phone to my chest. My

used her skills and incredible determination to build a new life, a successful business from the ground up, all while pretending to be struggling

ing out the living room window, wai

ut. She looked tired from her long flight, but her face was set with

I was about to

t, a flash of red b

, the one Liam had bought for Chloe, came screaming do

irectly int

ne. My mother' s body was thrown through the air

cre

nd, its engine roaring, befor

my own name a raw scream

yes open but unseeing. The taxi driver

her, my world ending for

waiting room. A doctor came out, his face grim. He didn

at there, numb, until a famil

Av

ard me, his face unreadabl

t ask if I was okay. He just pulled a folde

"It' s a tragedy. But Chloe is very distraught. The shock could be bad for the baby. T

ver. A legal document absolving the owner of t

tice for my mother' s death to pr