Beyond the Fire: A Wife's Ultimatum

I was the architect who designed the beautiful, efficient spaces where people lived and worked. He was the tech visionary who filled thos

s about time. Our company, Miller-Reed Tech, was soaring, and our marriage was meant to b

efore the wedd

oking at me. "She's an intern. It wa

st knew, but the grammar was all wrong. A mistake. Meant nothing. Yet it had hap

wo decades, and I saw his panic, his regret. I thought it was a test. A storm to be weathered. So I pushed my pain down, locked

r company became a titan in the industry. We were more successful than we had ever imagined. The memory

ame th

cuating the main building, smoke thickening the air. People were screaming, running. I was help

looked up. A massive support beam, weakened by the heat, was groani

. I shoved him out of the wa

exploded

ng me to the floor. The force was immense, a crushing weight that I felt in my bones. I screamed

ut, my vision swimm

t, staring. For a heartbeat, I

from the other side of the

e panic and was sitting on the floor

s left me. They locked onto her. His face, which had

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len beam. He didn't even glance down. He ran to Chloe, kneeling besid

e clarity washed over me. The pain in my back was n

nfession wasn't a mistake he'd moved pa

t the one he