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Chapter 16: Mockery of an Unstable Soul

Author: Victor
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-03 18:37:04

Noah's POV

It’s been ten years since Emma and I married. Ten years that should have meant forever, but forever has a way of changing. She was the perfect woman I’d ever seen, caring, steady, the one who kept breathing life back into my dying company when creditors circled. She gave everything. Even when she stopped dressing like she used to after William was born, even when she stopped trying to impress me with the beauty I'd fallen for. She was gaining weight, size adding to size. But I told myself it didn’t matter.

I lied to myself a lot.

Lately the lie sat like a weight in my chest. The money she kept throwing at the business felt like a noose I couldn’t pay off. I was proud, then humiliated, and pride doesn’t forgive being dependent. I began to notice other women again, too aware of curves, of the way some girls leaned their bodies into the room like an offer. I tried to shove it down, to bury the thought that I’d want more than what I had. But one look and the ache returned, sha
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