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I WANT HER LIFE

Author: O.A PRESHY
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-06 19:25:01

Diva’s POV

The mirror didn’t lie.

It never had.

I stood in front of it, bare except for a silk robe slipping off one shoulder, my face painted like war. Thick black liner winged out beyond my eyes. Ruby-red lips curled into a smirk I didn’t feel. And contour… sharp enough to cut glass.

I tilted my head, examining the face I’d perfected.

Her face.

Isabella’s.

I ran my fingers along my jaw, tracing the illusion I’d become. All for him. Because he wanted her. And I became what he needed.

He broke me into her shape.

And now he wanted to pretend I didn’t exist?

My smile faltered as the bitterness swelled. I could taste it in my throat.

I sat in the vanity, slowly brushing my hair. My eyes stayed locked on my reflection. The lights flickered overhead, cheap bulbs in a cheap motel. But I saw nothing but her. The woman with the warm life. The child. The doting husband. The picture-perfect fairytale.

A life I bled for.

“You get the flowers,” I muttered, brushing harder, “I got the thorns.”

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    ISABELLA’S POVI couldn’t breathe.The room was too quiet. Even the hum of machines seemed to hold its breath.The doctor opened the file, eyes scanning across the first page as if debating whether to say the truth out loud. My fingers tightened unconsciously around Xavier’s arm. He didn’t flinch.His mother stood frozen, arms crossed like a statue carved in suspicion. Macy looked like she was about to scoff. Camille, next to me, shifted with unease.Then the doctor spoke.“Xavier has suffered more extensive damage from the smoke inhalation than we initially believed.”I felt my chest tighten. I hadn’t expected that. Xavier had walked, talked, even smiled through it all. How could that mean something worse?The doctor continued. “We discovered scarring in the heart’s tissue. Likely from prolonged exposure to synthetic fumes during the fire. It’s caused a form of cardiomyopathy .. a rare condition that weakens the heart muscles.”He glanced up. “It’s irreversible.”No one moved. Even M

  • ISABELLA (The Night that ruined me)   BACK AGAIN

    XAVIER’S POVI smiled.Not the kind you give when you're happy..but the kind that sits deep, knowing, twisted.Isabella sat beside me, looking like she wanted to disappear. Her fingers tapped her lap nervously, her gaze shifting everywhere but my face. She looked like a woman trying to hold herself together.I noticed her eyes flick to the door more than once. Still hoping, maybe, that he would come back for her.But he wouldn’t.Drake had left. And she had no one else.Except me.I leaned back with a soft groan, letting out a slow breath as I clutched my side. Fake, of course..but effective.Her head snapped toward me. “Are you okay?” she asked quickly, panic blooming across her face.“Just... dizzy,” I murmured, letting my eyelids flutter. “It’ll pass.”She shifted closer, and like clockwork, her hand reached for mine.Hook. Line. Guilt.She still felt responsible. Still cared. Not enough to say yes outright..but just enough to keep me in her orbit.Good.Everything was working as I

  • ISABELLA (The Night that ruined me)   SPLIT BETWEEN

    ISABELLA’S POVI didn’t call after him.I just stood there… frozen… as Drake turned and walked away.And with every step he took, something inside me cracked a little more.When he disappeared around the corner, my knees gave out.I lowered myself to the cold hospital floor, burying my face in my hands, crying silently.The pain wasn’t loud. It wasn’t messy. It just spilled out quietly like a wound that had been bleeding for far too long.All I could think about was how things used to be.How Drake used to wake Eva up by tickling her tiny feet.How we’d make pancakes on Sundays while she danced on the kitchen stool.The laughter.The warmth.The way I used to believe that nothing could ever tear us apart.But it did.And now here I was…sitting in the hallway of a hospital, torn between two men. One I had built memories with, and one who had saved my daughter without a second thought.My phone buzzed beside me.I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand, sniffing as I picked it up.Xavie

  • ISABELLA (The Night that ruined me)   I'M NOT LETTING GO

    DRAKE’S POVOur eyes locked.For a moment, the entire world stood still.And all I could see..feel….was her.Isabella.The woman I had loved, lost, hurt, and somehow… still couldn’t let go of.She looked like a ghost from a life I used to live. Same soft eyes, same trembling lips, but none of the warmth I used to see when she smiled at me. That smile was mine once.But now…Now her lips looked like they belonged to someone else.I didn’t want to show it. The ache. The weakness.But my eyes failed me.My fists clenched. My throat tightened. Every step I’d taken to come here was fueled by desperation, confusion… and fear.And now that she was standing in front of me, all of it erupted in one broken breath.“You kissed him,” I muttered.It came out low. Bitter. Not an accusation, just raw disbelief.Her mouth opened. Then closed. No words.None.That silence tore deeper than a thousand screams.I dragged my hand through my hair in frustration, unable to stop the storm inside me. I stared

  • ISABELLA (The Night that ruined me)   TO CHOOSE

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  • ISABELLA (The Night that ruined me)   MANIPULATION

    XAVIER'S POVThe night had teeth. Sharp. Hungry. Waiting to bite.And I was ready to feed it.I stood in the corner of Eva's playroom earlier that afternoon, crouched by the little pink heater like a serpent winding through a garden. My fingers moved carefully, deliberately, as I tugged at the wire insulation inside. One spark. Just one. That was all it would take.I twisted the casing shut, placed the small rabbit rug over it again, and glanced around. Eva's drawings were still taped on the wall..sunshine smiles and stick figures with wide arms. A fake world of safety. One that didn’t deserve to survive if it didn’t include me.As I stood, a slow grin curled across my lips."Boom," I whispered to myself.I lit a vanilla-scented candle and placed it on the windowsill, directly beneath the fluttering curtain.It would look like negligence. A forgotten flame.Accidents were so easy to believe.The heater would short, heat the cord. The curtain would catch.And I would save her.Just in

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