Married To My Husband's Rival
After a car accident leaves Elisa with amnesia, she wakes up to discover that her husband, Marcus, and their young son, Eli, have been visiting her in the hospital. But there's something terribly wrong. Marcus introduces her as a distant relative, while his former lover, Sophia, is presented as Eli's mother.
Before Elisa can make sense of the lies, Julian Thorne, Marcus's business rival, arrives and tells her the truth.
Then her memories come rushing back.
She remembers her marriage, the son she loves, and the life she gave up for a man who has now replaced her with another woman. But rather than confront Marcus, Elisa decides to let him believe his deception has worked. If he thinks she remembers nothing, she'll use that advantage to take back everything he thought he could steal from her.
With nowhere to turn, she leaves the hospital with Julian. What begins as an unlikely alliance soon becomes something neither of them expected. And when Marcus calls, demanding to know where his wife is, Elisa makes sure he understands that she isn't alone anymore.
As she fights to reclaim her career, her legal rights and her place in her son's life, her growing feelings for Julian complicate an already dangerous game. But Marcus isn't prepared to lose control of the woman he so casually discarded.
He wanted her out of his life. He may soon discover that losing her was his biggest mistake.
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Chapter: Chapter Five: A Life Of My OwnElisa’s POVTwo days later, I sat at Julian’s dining table with a borrowed laptop open in front of me.Morning light came through the tall windows. Julian had left for work about an hour earlier, but not before making me another cup of coffee and giving me the password for the guest Wi-Fi. He hadn't asked what I planned to do that day. I think he understood that I needed something to keep me busy.I started with my old email accounts, then moved on to the cloud storage I hadn't touched in years. Eventually, I found my architecture portfolio. I had barely looked at it since Eli was a toddler and Marcus's work kept taking up more and more of my time.Some of the files wouldn't open. Others were still there, exactly as I'd left them. I spent a while going through the drawings, remembering the projects I'd worked on and the plans I'd made before I put my career aside.By midday, I'd sent three messages.One to the firm that had once
Last Updated: 2026-11-04
Chapter: Chapter Four: On My Own TermsElisa’s POVI woke to the sound of rain against the windows.For a few seconds, I lay still, trying to remember where I was. The bed felt unfamiliar, and the room was darker than I expected. Then I remembered. Julian's apartment. The guest room. Everything that had happened the day before.I sat up and rubbed my forehead. My head still ached, though not as badly as it had yesterday. After a moment, I got out of bed. My clothes from the hospital were folded over a chair, so I put them on and made my way down the hallway.I found Julian in the kitchen. He was wearing a dark sweater and jeans, pouring coffee into two mugs. He glanced up when he heard me.“Morning,” he said. “How’s your head?”“Better.”He handed me the mug, our fingers brushing as he did. I glanced at him before taking a sip, hoping he hadn't noticed the brief pause.“Thank you for letting me stay last night,&r
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Chapter: Chapter Three: A Stranger To My SonElisa’s POVI stayed at the window longer than I should have.Marcus, Sophia, and Eli disappeared through the main entrance, still looking like a picture of a happy family. The courtyard emptied. The light outside shifted towards late afternoon, growing softer and cooler. My reflection in the glass looked pale and unfamiliar. I barely recognised the woman staring back at me.Julian didn’t rush me. He waited a few steps behind me, saying nothing, until the shaking in my hands finally stopped.“I can’t stay here,” I said.He didn’t ask why. He already knew.“I’ll speak to the doctor,” he answered. “If they clear you, we can leave tonight.”I turned from the window. The room suddenly felt smaller, the walls closer, every corner carrying memories of Marcus standing there with his careful smile and easy lies. The thought of spending another night under this roof made my stom
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Chapter: Chapter Two: Everything I ForgotElisa’s POVJulian stayed.He pulled a chair close to the bed and sat without asking permission. For a long while, neither of us spoke. The folder still lay open on the bedside table. I kept my eyes on the photographs, trying to make the smiling woman in them feel familiar. She never did.“Tell me,” I said again. “Everything you know.”Julian leaned forward, forearms resting on his knees. His voice stayed low and even, as though he didn't want to overwhelm me with everything I was about to hear.“You and Marcus met at university. You were studying architecture. He was being prepared to take over his family’s company. You married two years after graduation. Eli was born the year after that. You put your career on hold to raise him while Marcus focused on the business. From what I know, you did most of the raising while he was busy building the company. You were the constant. He was the one who came and went.
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Chapter: Chapter One: The Man Who Knew My NameElisa’s POVI woke to the sharp smell of disinfectant and the steady beep of machines. My head ached with a heavy, persistent pressure, as though someone had placed a stone behind my eyes and left it there. I squinted, slowly adjusting to the brightness of my surroundings.I looked up. The ceiling was plain white, with a fluorescent light hanging directly above me.A knock sounded at the door. Before I could answer, a man stepped into the room.He was tall, dressed in a dark tailored coat over a black shirt, with broad shoulders and an effortlessly commanding presence. Dark hair fell neatly across his forehead, framing a strikingly handsome face. His features were sharply defined, from the straight bridge of his nose to the firm line of his jaw. There was something almost unfair about how handsome he was, particularly his eyes, a cool shade of grey that seemed to miss very little.He closed the door carefully and approached the bed with
Last Updated: 2026-11-04
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