Mag-log in“Liar. Slut. That thing in your belly isn’t mine.” Those were his last words before the door slammed and I hit the floor, shaking, wondering how the man I married had turned into someone who enjoyed watching me fall apart. Love wasn’t supposed to feel like punishment, but with him, it became exactly that. The insults. The bruises. The silence afterward. And the worst part was watching my own cousin the girl I grew up with slide into his life watching mine fall apart. He threw me out like trash. They both did. But I didn’t die out there. I got back up. And the woman who stood again wasn’t the weak one they tried to break. She was someone they should’ve feared from the start. There’s someone new now. He doesn’t see me as a burden but as someone worth fighting for. So when my ex shows up months later, suddenly soft-spoken, suddenly sorry, mumbling, “Emily… please. I messed up,” he expects the old me to crawl back. Instead, I look him in the eye and tell him the truth “You’re not part of my life anymore. You’re just what I had to survive.”
view moreWhere’s the presentation file?!” Adrian’s voice thundered through the phone.
I froze in the kitchen, a half-cut onion in my hand. “You told me this morning you didn’t need it,” I whispered. “So now you’re arguing? You’re useless. If you can’t do anything else, at least learn to obey. Bring me the files now, or you’ll regret it.” He hung up. My hands trembled as I grabbed the folder from the table. Five years of marriage, and I was still scared every time he raised his voice. He had been snapping at me for months. I kept telling myself it was the stress from work. I grabbed the briefcase with the folder and rushed out. Rain came down hard, soaking me as I caught bus after bus to reach his office. Adrian Cole was one of the richest men in Norchester. People respected him in public, but at home, his words cut me to pieces. The guards at the gate looked me over. “What’s she doing here again?” one muttered. “Her face could haunt your dreams,” the other said. I lowered my head and kept walking. The office went quiet the moment I walked in, dripping water onto the floor. “Emily?” Adrian’s eyes narrowed. “Why do you always have to look like a stray dog who had the entire city’s sewage dumped on her?” I lifted the briefcase with the folders from the waterproof bag. “You told me to bring this.” Whispers spread around the room. “Why did Mr. Cole marry her?” “She hasn’t even given him a child.” Adrian’s jaw tightened. “Get out.” When I didn’t move fast enough, he came over and gripped my neck until I could barely breathe. “This is the last time I want to see your face here. Do you understand? You humiliate me every time. I curse the day I married you. He had always looked at my cousin Kira with a softness he never showed me. We grew up together, but once he met her, I knew he loved her more. I nodded quickly, shaking. “I’ll leave… please, it’s raining. Can you drop me off?” He shoved me aside. “Go the way you came. I didn’t bring you here.” I went home, my neck throbbing. Five years of marriage had given me both joy and misery. Joy, because I had learned to love Adrian. Misery, because he always loved someone else. That night, I cried myself to sleep. Cold water splashed across my face, followed by a sharp slap. “You dare sleep while I go hungry?” Adrian’s voice cut through me. The clock read 2 a.m. I had slept straight through the evening. “I’m sorry,” I whispered. “I’ll make it now.” His eyes were like ice. “Don’t bother. I’ll have what I see.” He grabbed my wrist and pulled me down onto the bed. His eyes don’t leave mine as he pulls his hard cock from his pants and positions himself at the entrance of my dry pussy. He pushed his cock into me until his entire length is just inside and then he thrusts hard, filling me completely. Reaching down, he drags one of my legs up and pulls my body away from the bed, his fingers digging hard into my flesh. His other hand wraps around the front of my already tender throat until I’m stretched between the tip of his cock and the bed. I could already tell this is going to hurt not because I didn’t want the sex, but I had no atom of arousal and wasn’t wet, leaving my pussy sore. I gasp as he thrusts into me with a force that borders on pain, my body straining against the unyielding bed. The mixture of pleasure and discomfort sends a pulsing sensation through me, heightening every sensation. His grip on my throat tightens, restricting my airflow. “Please Adrian, I’m in p…pains.” I manage to voice out while whimpering. His movements are rough and unrelenting, his cock pounding into me with an urgency that matches the darkness in his eyes. Each thrust sends shockwaves of pain radiating through my body. I struggle to find my breath, my mind clouded by a heavy cocktail of thoughts. The pressure on my throat intensifies, he kissed my cheeks so softly. “Ah you always feel so good. I guess you do have one useful thing about you." He came crashing on me as soon as he came, the rest blurred into pain and humiliation, my tears soaking the pillow in silence as I sought for sleep. By morning, I forced myself to make his breakfast exactly as he liked. My body ached, but I hoped it would calm him. Adrian sat, sipped the tea, and spat it out. “What is this? Cold? Tasteless?” He shoved the cup away, hot liquid spilling over my hands. I bit back a cry as the burn spread. He didn’t care. His glare was worse than the pain.EMILYI pulled my little boy closer as we tucked ourselves behind a narrow column near the airport café. My breath hitched each time I heard footsteps. He clung to my shirt like a baby koala.“Stay still for me, okay?” I whispered into his hair. “Just a minute.”I didn’t even realize Adrian had stopped right beside us until his voice drifted through the space. He was talking to someone on the phone, sounding relaxed and smug. My stomach twisted.“Relax. I said I’ll handle it. Nothing is getting out. Have I ever failed you?”My heart hammered so hard I felt it in my teeth. My son shifted in my arms, confused, and I held him tighter. A few seconds later, Adrian walked off, still muttering into his phone. I stayed put until I couldn’t hear him anymore. Only then did I force myself to breathe properly again.“Mama… who was that man?” my boy asked, brows pinched.“Just… somebody I used to know,” I said with a smile that felt glued on.I took his hand and rushed toward the exit. In my hurry
EMILYThe stage lights burned like a small sun above me, hot enough to make the air feel heavy in my throat. I squinted at the screen of my monitor, watching the dancers fall in and out of formation. My job usually calmed me, but today, the heat and noise pressed on my temples.“Alright, take it from bar eight,” I called.The music thumped back to life, and the dancers snapped into motion. My crew moved around me like a well-oiled machine. I barely noticed Nia until she tugged gently on my sleeve.“Emily,” she whispered, a little too excited, “Mr. Blake needs you. Says it’s important.”I raised a brow. “While we’re rolling?”She nodded. “He insisted.”That alone made my stomach tighten. Blake never interfered unless something big had happened.“Joe, wrap this up for now. I’ll check the footage later,” I told the creative director and headed toward the hallway Nia had come from.She kept pace beside me, fidgeting with the tablet in her hands.“What’s going on?” I asked.Nia only sm
REEDTravis’s message came in while I was halfway through signing a stack of contracts. My phone buzzed three times before I finally pushed the papers aside and checked the screen.CALL ME. URGENT.I stepped out of the conference room, closing the door softly so the partners wouldn’t hear. “Travis, this better not be another false lead,” I said.His voice came out quick, almost shaky. “Sir… we found her. For real this time.”My stomach pulled tight. “How?”“You remember the ring you said she grabbed before she ran out that night? The one with your initials?” He took a breath. “Someone pawned it three days ago. The shop logged her ID. Her name is Lina Monroe.”I stopped walking. People brushed past me in the hallway, but all I heard was the pounding in my chest. “Send the address,” I said.The text arrived before the call even ended. I didn’t bother returning to the meeting. I grabbed my keys, ignored the driver, and headed straight for the garage. The drive took forty minutes, though
I left the clinic with my hands shaking, holding the test results against my chest like they would disappear if I blinked too hard. I kept touching my stomach on the walk back, half in disbelief and half in hope. Maybe this was finally the thing that would fix us. Adrian always said he wanted a family. Maybe he would see me again, really see me.I walked through the neighborhood smiling to myself like an idiot. I didn’t even care that my shoes were hurting my feet or that I hadn’t eaten all day. I was thinking about names and the color of the room and how I would tell him. By the time I reached our street, I was already rehearsing how I’d tell him.But everything froze when I reached the house.The front yard looked like someone had emptied a trash bin onto the grass. Only it wasn’t trash. It was my clothes. My coat was caught on the garden fence. My sweaters were torn down the middle like someone had used scissors. A bucket lay tipped over near the steps, water trickling down the pav






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