The Billionaire's Regret: My Tortured Ex-Wife

Chapter 9 No.9

Word Count: 810 | Released on: 13/01/2026

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d no humor, only agony. She held up her maimed han

ustice, Isaiah! Is it enough? Does this finally pay for Clementi

e filthy mattress on the floor. He felt

words were a prayer and a plea. "I

ou just had to put me in the cage. You threw me to the animals, Isaiah. Your name,

the warden, his voice thick with whiskey and grief

or. Solitary confine

ly devoid of emotion. "Protection money that Danny couldn't pay. So they took a

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the reality of what he was hearing. He collapsed to his knees, gaspi

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basement door remained a dark, accu

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raw and unhinged. "I don't care who you have to bribe or threat

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“My husband stood by the window of his Manhattan office, his silhouette cutting through the storm like a blade. He didn't even look at me as he tossed the divorce papers onto the desk, his voice a cold baritone. "Sign it," Isaiah commanded, "or your brother's dialysis treatment ends today." He believed the lie that I had pushed his pregnant mistress down a flight of stairs in a jealous rage. To save my dying brother, I signed the confession and accepted the role of a murderer, trading my freedom for a life of disgrace. At the funeral, Isaiah forced me to crawl on my knees through the freezing mud to the grave while a mob of mourners spat on me and cursed my name. When I went to prison, his influence followed me into the showers, where inmates told me the King wanted me to "remember my crime" before they used rusty shears to hack off my finger. Five years later, I was a ghost living in a damp basement with the son Isaiah never knew I had, hiding my mangled hand under a leather glove. When he eventually tracked us down, he didn't show mercy; he tore my son from my arms, calling me an unfit monster and swearing I would rot in a cage. I couldn't understand how the man I once loved could look at my broken body and see only a criminal, never realizing that every scar I carried was a gift from his own hatred. As he walked away with my child, I swallowed a bottle of pills to end the nightmare, leaving Isaiah to rip the glove from my hand and discover the mangled truth just as my eyes finally closed.”