Poisoned Love: A Wife's Reckoning

Poisoned Love: A Wife's Reckoning

Su Liao

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My life was a carefully curated masterpiece: a devoted husband, a lavish Upper East Side apartment, and the gentle recovery from a tragic miscarriage. I thought I had it all, even as I yearned for the child we'd lost. Then, a whispered conversation tore through the veneer. I heard my husband, Ethan, and his colleagues, talking about "placental therapy" for another woman, Sabrina. "Jocelyn thinks she just had a tragic miscarriage," one slurred. "She' ll never know you paid that 'specialist' ... All for Sabrina' s sake. Now she' s got a bun in the oven, and Jocelyn' s none the wiser." The truth unspooled with sickening clarity. My miscarriage wasn't tragic; it was engineered. The "herbal wellness smoothies" Ethan made me every morning, meant to aid my recovery, were laced with birth control. Everything he' d done, every comforting word, every loving gesture, was a calculated lie for her benefit. My grief turned to cold fury. The husband I loved had weaponized my body, my trust, and my desire for a family. He wasn't just having an affair; he had conspired to steal my fertility to ensure another woman carried his "true heir." My decision was chillingly absolute. On Ethan' s "business trip" day, I drained our joint account, left only divorce papers, and vanished, ready to build a real life far from the gilded cage he' d constructed.

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My life was a carefully curated masterpiece: a devoted husband, a lavish Upper East Side apartment, and the gentle recovery from a tragic miscarriage. I thought I had it all, even as I yearned for the child we'd lost.

Then, a whispered conversation tore through the veneer. I heard my husband, Ethan, and his colleagues, talking about "placental therapy" for another woman, Sabrina. "Jocelyn thinks she just had a tragic miscarriage," one slurred. "She' ll never know you paid that 'specialist' ... All for Sabrina' s sake. Now she' s got a bun in the oven, and Jocelyn' s none the wiser."

The truth unspooled with sickening clarity. My miscarriage wasn't tragic; it was engineered. The "herbal wellness smoothies" Ethan made me every morning, meant to aid my recovery, were laced with birth control. Everything he' d done, every comforting word, every loving gesture, was a calculated lie for her benefit.

My grief turned to cold fury. The husband I loved had weaponized my body, my trust, and my desire for a family. He wasn't just having an affair; he had conspired to steal my fertility to ensure another woman carried his "true heir."

My decision was chillingly absolute. On Ethan' s "business trip" day, I drained our joint account, left only divorce papers, and vanished, ready to build a real life far from the gilded cage he' d constructed.

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