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Chapter 38

Author: TemsRay
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-27 14:59:46

I didn’t sleep.

The silence in the house was too loud. And Ruben, lying barely a foot away from me, didn’t help either. His breathing was even, but I knew he wasn’t asleep. Pretending that the night hadn’t ended with another explosion of voices and slammed doors.

Pretending we hadn’t stood in this very room married, but still strangers yelling over things that should never have been our reality in the first place.

I turned on my side, my back to him, staring at the wall.

It felt like it was closing in on me.

Every corner of this house whispered things I didn’t want to hear. Not home, just another performance. A display.

I had been thrown into a glass world, and now I was suffocating behind it.

I thought maybe after the wedding, the pressure would ease. Maybe, just maybe, I could live like a regular person again go out without cameras, without guards breathing down my neck, without drivers opening doors before I even reached them.

I was wrong.

The security, the surveillance, the expec
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