Betrayed By Her Beloved

Betrayed By Her Beloved

Gavin

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Ten years. That' s how long I' d spent in Ironwood, a frozen hell disguised as a "rehabilitation" facility, stripped bare. Finally, I was home, a woman I barely recognized, clinging to Marcus and Leo' s hollow promises of normalcy. I just wanted peace, to be safe. The recycled air inside felt foreign after the clean Alaskan crispness. But peace was a cruel illusion. I overheard them talking, my husband and my son, their voices low and urgent. "She took the fall," Marcus confessed, "It was convenient." My blood ran cold. The "Aegis data breach" that stole a decade of my life was no accident of negligence, but a calculated frame-up by my own family to protect Vivian. Their "sympathy" was a meticulously constructed performance. My husband, the man who comforted me, was having an affair with my adoptive sister, Vivian, who now held my former title. She paraded in front of me wearing the gown Marcus had commissioned for my anniversary. My son, Leo, defended her, then burned my cherished journals for him, making space for "Aunt Viv's" things. This house was not a home, but a gilded cage built on lies. My own father lauded Vivian as a family "asset," subtly shaming me. The trust that had flickered within me was extinguished, replaced by a cold, burning fury. They had conveniently buried me for ten years in a brutal Alaskan prison, then expected me to play along. My heart hammered with an overwhelming sense of injustice and betrayal. They thought I was still broken. They were wrong. Amidst the ashes of my old life, my mother's cryptic words from years ago echoed: "The Seraphina Protocol. My escape hatch." A meticulous archivist, a planner, was reawakening. The gala would be their stage, yes. But soon, it would be mine.

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Ten years. That' s how long I' d spent in Ironwood, a frozen hell disguised as a "rehabilitation" facility, stripped bare.

Finally, I was home, a woman I barely recognized, clinging to Marcus and Leo' s hollow promises of normalcy.

I just wanted peace, to be safe. The recycled air inside felt foreign after the clean Alaskan crispness.

But peace was a cruel illusion.

I overheard them talking, my husband and my son, their voices low and urgent.

"She took the fall," Marcus confessed, "It was convenient."

My blood ran cold.

The "Aegis data breach" that stole a decade of my life was no accident of negligence, but a calculated frame-up by my own family to protect Vivian.

Their "sympathy" was a meticulously constructed performance.

My husband, the man who comforted me, was having an affair with my adoptive sister, Vivian, who now held my former title.

She paraded in front of me wearing the gown Marcus had commissioned for my anniversary.

My son, Leo, defended her, then burned my cherished journals for him, making space for "Aunt Viv's" things.

This house was not a home, but a gilded cage built on lies.

My own father lauded Vivian as a family "asset," subtly shaming me.

The trust that had flickered within me was extinguished, replaced by a cold, burning fury.

They had conveniently buried me for ten years in a brutal Alaskan prison, then expected me to play along.

My heart hammered with an overwhelming sense of injustice and betrayal.

They thought I was still broken.

They were wrong.

Amidst the ashes of my old life, my mother's cryptic words from years ago echoed: "The Seraphina Protocol. My escape hatch."

A meticulous archivist, a planner, was reawakening.

The gala would be their stage, yes.

But soon, it would be mine.

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