His Orchestrated Love, My Shattered Life

His Orchestrated Love, My Shattered Life

Zi Ya

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After a brutal assault cost me my fiancé, my childhood friend swooped in to save me. He married me, cherished me, and I fell in love with the perfect life he built. I thought I had finally found my happy ending. Then, pregnant with our child, I overheard him confessing to my half-sister. He had orchestrated the entire assault. He married me just to stay close to her. In the hospital, she staged an attack, claiming I tried to kill her and her unborn baby. My husband shoved me against the wall, roaring at me as he rushed to her side. "I'll kill you for this!" As I lay bleeding on the cold floor, losing my own child, not a single person looked back. I was just a necessary casualty in his game. But I had recorded her gloating confession. I faked my death and fled to my billionaire mother. He would find out the truth, and I would be the ghost that haunted him to his grave.

Chapter 1

After a brutal assault cost me my fiancé, my childhood friend swooped in to save me. He married me, cherished me, and I fell in love with the perfect life he built. I thought I had finally found my happy ending.

Then, pregnant with our child, I overheard him confessing to my half-sister. He had orchestrated the entire assault. He married me just to stay close to her.

In the hospital, she staged an attack, claiming I tried to kill her and her unborn baby. My husband shoved me against the wall, roaring at me as he rushed to her side.

"I'll kill you for this!"

As I lay bleeding on the cold floor, losing my own child, not a single person looked back. I was just a necessary casualty in his game.

But I had recorded her gloating confession. I faked my death and fled to my billionaire mother. He would find out the truth, and I would be the ghost that haunted him to his grave.

Chapter 1

The day the fireworks painted the sky with fleeting beauty was the day my life shattered into irreversible pieces. My fiancé, the man I believed was my future, tossed our engagement aside like a broken toy the moment news of my assault spread. He didn't even look me in the eye.

He just walked away.

The next thing I knew, he was with my half-sister. They stood side-by-side, a picture of what could have been mine. It felt like a punch to the gut, a betrayal swift and brutal.

Then came my childhood friend, the one who had always been there. He swooped in, a strong hand pulling me from the wreckage. He offered comfort, then an unthinkable proposal. He wanted to marry me.

He vowed to protect me, to cherish me. He spoke of love, a deep, unwavering kind. I was numb, but I said yes. He was my savior.

Life with him became a beautiful, meticulously crafted lie. He doted on me, showered me with affection, and made sure the world saw a woman reborn, loved, and absolutely adored. Everyone whispered about our perfect romance, envious of the man who had turned my tragedy into a fairy tale. I started to believe it too. He was everything my former fiancé wasn't. He rebuilt my shattered world, piece by piece.

He made me feel safe, cherished. I thought I had found true happiness, a second chance at a life I thought was lost forever. My heart, once a bruised and broken thing, began to beat with a fragile hope.

I was pregnant again. A new life, a fresh start. We were going to tell everyone, share our joy. I walked on air, imagining our future, building castles in my mind.

But then I heard it. A whisper, through a half-closed door. His voice. Urgent, low, laced with an emotion I couldn't place at first.

"She doesn't know," he said. My blood ran cold, a sudden, inexplicable chill.

He was talking to someone. The other person' s voice was too soft to make out, but the tone was familiar. It was her. My half-sister.

"It was all for you," he confessed, his voice thick with devotion. "To get her out of the picture. To make sure you knew I was serious."

My breath hitched. My ears buzzed, trying to make sense of the words. It couldn't be.

He explained how he set up the whole thing, the assault, making sure my former fiancé would abandon me. He admitted to using my pain, my humiliation, as a stepping stone. A means to an end.

He married me, not out of love, but out of a twisted sense of guilt, and a strategic move to keep my half-sister in his life. He needed to be close to her, and I was the perfect pawn.

"I'd do anything for you," he declared, his voice raw with a possessive love I had never heard directed at me. "Anything to make you mine."

The entire world tilted. The perfect life, the loving husband, the second chance-it was all a grotesque charade. My body trembled, tears blurring my vision. They streamed down my face, hot and stinging, soaking the front of my shirt.

Every kind word, every tender touch, every reassuring embrace felt like a cruel joke. I was a fool. A naive, trusting fool. The betrayal was so profound, so absolute, it felt like my very essence was crumbling.

I understood then. He wasn't my savior. He was the architect of my destruction, a puppet master pulling strings I didn't even know existed. A cold, hard resolve began to crystallize within me. This had to end.

Later, I heard his friend, his closest confidant, trying to reason with him. "You can't keep doing this," his friend pleaded, his voice heavy with concern. "She's been through enough."

My partner's response was a harsh laugh, devoid of humor. "She's exactly where she needs to be," he spat, his voice laced with venom I'd never heard before.

"But the assault... the way you engineered it," his friend pressed, a tremor in his voice. "Don't you feel anything for what she endured?"

"She was a means to an end," my partner stated, his voice flat, emotionless. "A necessary casualty in the game."

His friend sighed, a sound of deep disappointment. "And the last three years? Was all that a lie too? The way you looked at her, the way you protected her?"

My partner remained silent, a silence that spoke volumes. It confirmed everything I had overheard, every horrifying truth.

"She's married, you know," his friend reminded him, referring to my half-sister. "You can't just break up a family for a twisted fantasy."

"Watch me," my partner rasped, his voice filled with a chilling determination. "She'll be mine. She always was."

My soul shriveled, plunging into an abyss of despair. The last vestiges of hope flickered and died.

His friend gave up, his footsteps receding down the hall. I heard the front door click shut, a final punctuation mark on my shattered dreams. The silence that followed was deafening, suffocating.

I moved, a phantom in my own home, my limbs heavy. My hand brushed against a vase on a side table, sending it crashing to the floor. The sharp sound startled me, and I cried out, clutching my stomach. A searing pain shot through me, and I stumbled, a shard of porcelain digging into my palm.

His friend, just leaving, paused at the sound. He turned back, his eyes catching mine through the doorway. Pity filled his gaze, a silent acknowledgment of my suffering.

Then my partner rushed in, his face a mask of concern. "What happened?" he exclaimed, his voice laced with a theatrical panic. He knelt beside me, his hands hovering, pretending to care.

I tried to hide the injury, to pull my hand away. The pain in my palm was nothing compared to the agony in my heart.

"You're hurt," he murmured, his voice soft, almost loving. "Let me see." He took my hand, his grip surprisingly gentle. "You're so clumsy sometimes, my love."

His words, his touch, felt like ice. They only amplified the hollow ache within me. The joy of my pregnancy, the gentle flutter of life inside, vanished, replaced by a crushing weight of dread.

"We need to get you to the hospital," he insisted, his tone firm. Before I could protest, he swept me into his arms, carrying me out the door. He was playing the part of the devoted husband perfectly.

He drove like a madman, his face etched with a convincing performance of worry. He kept glancing at me, murmuring reassurances.

At the hospital, nurses and doctors rushed around us. I heard hushed whispers. "Look at him," one nurse cooed. "So devoted, so worried about his wife. She's so lucky."

I stared blankly, a spectator in my own tragedy. He was still performing, for them, for the world, for me. He wrung his hands, asked endless questions about my well-being, demanded the best care. I just watched, numb, as his charade unfolded. He was a master of manipulation, and I was his most convincing victim.

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