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The Scarf That Broke Us

Chapter 1 

Word Count: 1116    |    Released on: 04/07/2025

a divorce,

ife. It was our fifth wedding anniversary, and the sterile, w

thumb flicking casually through real estate analytics. Her vo

y, Alex. I

nt away. For five years, I had been the talented but suppressed architect, a quiet fixture in the grand life of Victori

I said, my voice barely a wh

ction of an inch. She looked at me, but her eyes were dismissive, like she w

atic, Alex. It'

ine that would shatter t

eave you right now. I

nfused. "What are

ct. "I was hit with a 'love charm.' It' s a very potent local thi

ruel smirk play

sistant, Ryan. He' s the o

le justification for her infidelity, a way to frame her affair as an illness and my

down her silk dress, "I need to be with him to get bette

coffee table and picked

annive

Inside was a luxury watch, absurdl

or me. Ryan is moving in for a while, for my treatment. It would be best if you moved out tempora

s gone, replaced by this cold, manipulative stranger. My love had be

ured my soul into. She' d glanced at it for a second before tossing it aside. "It's cute, Alex. But it lacks ambition. You desi

my hand. Her emotional abuse, her blatant infidelit

y,"

pliant husband, agreeing to be discarded. But inside, a switch had flipped. Th

ntion back on her phone. She was already messaging

ng. She answered it wit

t is

d of Ryan' s voice on the oth

simple instruction?" She paced the room, her voice rising. "This is exactly the kind of incompetence I

me, as if the downtown tra

? You upset the b

nted toward

offee. The special beans, the one

re a welcome for the man who was replacing me in my own home, with coffee I had boug

ment. When Ryan finally arrived, I was forced to watch as Victoria greeted him with a possessive kiss,

ot looking at me. She was already str

my phone buzzed in my pocket. It was an email

olleague from university. I h

line read: A

ened

ou about at my firm in Northwood? It just opened up. I thought of you im

ood was a thousand miles away. A

sign. A

leave, with the sound of my wife and her lover laughing in the ot

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