The Scar He Gave, The Queen I Became

Author: Temple Madison

Chapter 1 I'm also afraid of water

Word Count: 862 | Released on: 16/03/2026

uined evening gown clung to her skin, and every breath she took tasted of chlorine

immaculate.His gaze bypassed His wife Cadence entirely, the gray-blue of his

ssed the threshold.She let out a weak, perfectly timed

ing Isabelle's shoulders with a fierce possessivenes

er heart gave a violent, painful spasm against her ribs.The

r face against Fra

ered, her voice trembling with manufactured tea

it match droppe

onto Cadence, radiating a fury so oppressiv

ow, dangerous rumble. "Pushing a woman who cannot swim into

ed blade in her back, the suffocating dark as

sending violent tremors down her spine."You d

diving qualification certificate, how could you be afraid of water?

sistant, stepped forward with a

ound Isabelle, completely ignoring his wife, w

playing out in front of her.A hollow, br

g with absolute mockery.The sound bounc

the laugh as a remorseless challenge, closing t

his shadow swallowing

d, his voice dropping to a lethal whisper, "I will

a final, twisting blade. "The second I sign those papers, you

chest tightened so hard she

f loving him until she bled. And h

ad.She shot Cadence a vicious, triumphant smil

m sensation of drowning merged with the crushi

ees bu

ction of an inch, a pure reflex to catch her.But he stopp

gh her wet, tangled bangs, she stared at the man she had traded her life for.The desper

n ordered his assistant.He wrapped his arm around Isabelle'

hall.The sound severed the last string holding Cadence up.

lightning ripped through the sky, illuminating her ghost-pale fac

gernails digging so deeply into her forearms t

aked hair back from her face.The fragile, broken look in her e

m the hidden lining, she pulled out a matte-

he screen reflected

ivating an encrypted, localized communicati

ed onto the black screen:

the device

e holding zero emotion as she initiate

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“I was dragged from the bottom of a pool, soaking wet and freezing, only to be accused by my husband of trying to drown his mistress. He believed her lies completely. He saw her feigned cough and trembling shoulders but was blind to my chattering teeth and the genuine terror in my eyes from my severe water PTSD. "Your jealousy is a sickness," he spat, ignoring my pleas. He threatened me with divorce and financial ruin for my family, all while his mistress, Isabelle, smirked at me from behind his back. He let me collapse onto the cold marble floor, turning his back on three years of marriage to comfort the woman who had set me up. The irony was suffocating. I was the one who had saved his life from a river years ago, an act that left me with a crippling phobia and a permanent scar he never noticed. He thought Isabelle was the traumatized victim. He thought my love was a transaction. That night, the love died. I walked away from his millions and the pathetic wife he thought I was. From the hidden lining of my clutch, I pulled out an encrypted phone he'd never seen and gave a single command: "Execute." My life as Mrs. Mueller was over. My real life was just beginning.”