Contaminated Love, A Wife's Escape

and drove strai

eded to be sure. I subjected myself to a full check-up, my hear

ce and told me I was clean, no infections, a wave of relief so strong it made me dizzy

alled home. My mind was numb. I walked up to th

SS D

ed attempts to seduce him. He' d leave me outside, sometimes all night, in the

time felt

It wasn't a maid or a b

osely on her small frame, the sleeves ridiculously long. She

. Sorry ab

as just adding my face to the system, and I

. He coughed, looking aw

," he said, his voice flat. "She'

ur things to the guest room at the end of the h

the stairs, my body moving on autopilot. The guest ro

oes it still hurt?"

t my body? Or the fact that he'd hired men to v

lway and handed me a glass of

dered. "I' m not r

t pregnant with another man' s child. A child he had a

pill in my mouth and swa

He frowned. "Chloe won' t be here for l

being told to be nice to the person who cau

th a sarcasm I didn't know I possesse

"Ava, don' t be dra

face. I heard his footsteps fade away, back towards the master bedroom. Back towards her.