While My Husband Cheated, I Married His Powerful Brother

iday. Veyra Solenne decided she would surprise him. She'd fly out

Although she felt bad about the ticke

nute, unable to figure out

d, gorgeous in the particular way tha

wn busines

ry. You must run a company or someth

d. "But my benefactor does. If I'm not in

a said. "Those must

I keep making expensive mistakes at work. He scolds me until I

n't have said why. "Funny," she said slowly. "My husband

swept over her, cataloguing. "His

mined h

Says touching her feels stale. Less int

quietly, the way it do

liday," the woman went on, pleased with her

woman's finger. A diamond, cut exactly like

ent s

, she thought. So, calm down. S

fixed on

d, her voice coming out strange to

rself, admiring the stone as it caught the cab

t out of Ve

Xiomara said. "But on my birthday she had a miscarria

, without her permis

dn't seen coming, three months along, and then nothing but blood on frozen concrete. Caspian at he

reaking. We'll have another b

oing layoffs. Save the money. Wh

and noble sacrifice. She had not known she was negoti

s wife's ring," Ve

d, watching the light slide across the diamond. "But that old thing acts so superior jus

pathetic," Xiomara added, almost kin

nd held on. "If he spends this much on you, h

less, and leaned in close enough

spered. "That pathetic woman doe

-

as still hoping - stupidly, stubbornly - that there was

r best years slaving beside him while he built everything. If you were a man and you finally made i

shadowed under the eyes, ten years of scraping by written into her sk

with the clinical warmth of someone appraising livestock. "A little cosmetic

said n

just for living expenses," Xiomara added, unp

de herself ask, "has

Xiomara checked her nails again

er own sleeve wen

ryone he knew and come back with three hundred fifty thousand - everything I have, he'd told her, weeping, and she had beli

r hair. I'm worthless. I cou

That's enough. Just wait a little longer, she'd told him, and he'd grip

undred and fifty tho

ith real interest. "That woman's mother needed

t her and said

He was going to p

Veyra said. "Fo

n has no family left. Nowhere to go. If he ever gets caught keeping me, she won't dare make a scene." X

afraid she'l

fe he'd scraped together everything, let her think he gave his all. She'd be too gra

afterthought, she a

it was so that if I ever got found out, his precious wife would

efore Veyra had d

?" Xiomara shrieked, ha