LOGINMy twin sister, Rebecca Shaffer, was kidnapped while saving me. The trauma left her with a mental illness that made her lash out at everyone around her. The only person who could get close to her, the only one who could calm her down, was my husband, Ezekiel Roberts. For the sake of her recovery, my parents insisted that Rebecca move into the master bedroom of my newlywed home. Whenever Ezekiel and I were intimate, Rebecca would lose control and throw things at me. Then, Ezekiel would scoop her up in his arms and carry her into the bedroom, soothing her with gentle words. Everyone kept telling me the same thing. "If Rebecca hadn't tried to save you, she wouldn't be like this now. You owe her this much!" I had no response to that, so I gave in again and again. That was, until I accidentally overheard a conversation between Rebecca and my parents. "How much longer do I have to keep pretending to be crazy? I'm so sick of sneaking around like this!" My parents looked at her with sympathy in their eyes. Ezekiel gently caressed her stomach and said, "Don't worry. I won't let Rebecca or the baby suffer even a little bit. Once I have Maisie completely under my control, I'll make everything public." I clutched the pregnancy test report in my hand and let out a bitter laugh. From now on, they would not need to keep up their elaborate charade. I would leave on my own.
View MoreThird-Person Perspective:Ever since Maisie vanished without a trace, it was as if the sun had stopped shining for the Shaffer family.Rebecca lived in a gray, suffocating world every single day, on the verge of losing her mind.Agatha had been devastated ever since learning she had caused her daughter to lose her baby. Her health deteriorated rapidly as she lay in bed all day, with even the best medicine having no effect.Meanwhile, Connor seemed to have aged 20 years overnight, and his carefully maintained hair had turned completely white.He clung to his phone, and every time it rang, his first question was always, "Have you found Maisie? Where is she? Please tell her we know we did her wrong. We just want her to come home."Ezekiel had disappeared after leaving the hospital that day and had not been seen since.As her belly grew bigger each day, Rebecca was too afraid to leave the house, terrified friends would ask who the father was. Later, she snuck out to find Ezekiel and
Maisie's Perspective:I had just gotten off the plane and had no idea what had happened after I left. My phone screen was empty, but for the first time, I did not feel that familiar ache.Instead, I felt a strange sense of lightness and relief.The person who came to pick me up was one of the project leaders and also my college senior, Ophelia Klein. Stylish as always, she took my suitcase, hugged me, and smiled."I told the project lead yesterday that Ezekiel probably couldn't bear to let you go and might delay your flight. I didn't expect you to show up a whole night early. Did you two fight?"She had always known my relationship with my family was not good. Back in college, she had once seen me having dinner off-campus with Rebecca and my parents. The entire time, my parents had been constantly serving Rebecca food while completely failing to notice that I was allergic to seafood and feeling sick.From that day on, Ophelia started looking at me the way she looked at stray cats
Agatha shouted, "And what did you do? Not only did you refuse to leave, but you got pregnant! Do you have any idea how much effort the whole family put into making Maisie accept this baby? And now you're saying you want to marry Ezekiel?!"She hissed, "Tell me the truth. Did you plan this from the very beginning? Did you scheme to make Maisie and Ezekiel divorce? Answer me!"That was the first time Rebecca had ever faced her parents' disappointment and accusations. In the past, those looks had always been directed at Maisie, and only now did she understand how much it hurt to have the needle turned on herself.She had never imagined her parents had zero intention of letting her marry Ezekiel. She thought Maisie and Ezekiel's divorce would be a cause for celebration, but now she realized she had been completely wrong.Aside from herself, no one else wanted Ezekiel and Maisie to divorce.Feeling cornered and humiliated, Rebecca bit her lip as tears streamed down her face. "Then, wha
Ezekiel's mind went completely blank. The hallway buzzed with voices, yet he could not hear a thing.It was not until Maisie's mother, Agatha Holton, spoke that he was pulled back to reality, and he snapped out of it."Ezekiel, Rebecca's feeling uncomfortable again. What are you standing there for? Go and take care of her!"Ezekiel turned around with a look of disbelief on his face. He mumbled, "Maisie... wants to divorce me...""What?" Agatha's expression mirrored Ezekiel's shock.Everyone in the family knew how deeply Maisie loved Ezekiel and how she had always compromised for him. That was why they had the audacity to weave such a ridiculous lie, letting him and Rebecca have an affair right under Maisie's nose.The worst outcome they had imagined was Maisie running away from home for a while before giving in and coming back to accept Ezekiel and Rebecca's child. After all, children starved for love would compromise over the smallest crumbs of affection.No one had expected Ma


















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