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Chapter 14 : What He Never Wanted
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THE EX WIFE WHO ROSE FROM THE ASHES Chapter 14 : What He Never Wanted
ETHAN’S POINT OF VIEWDaniel knocked twice and stepped in before Ethan could respond.That alone was enough to make Ethan look up.Daniel did not interrupt without permission. Not in meetings, not in private, not ever. He was precise in everything he did. Measured. Predictable. The kind of man who knew how to exist in controlled spaces without disturbing them.Right now, he looked like something had disturbed him.His posture was straight as always, but his face carried a hesitation that did not belong there. Not panic. Not confusion. Something quieter. Something heavier. The look of a man holding information that had weight and had not yet decided how to place it down.Sara glanced up from the sofa, her attention pulled by the shift in the room.“What is it?” she asked, already slightly impatient.Daniel did not answer her. His eyes remained on Ethan.“There was a fire,” he said.The words settled without moving anything.Ethan set his pen down slowly. He did not rush. He did not rea
THE EX WIFE WHO ROSE FROM THE ASHES Chapter 13 : The Woman by the Bed
**LUNA'S POINT OF VIEW**The first thing she felt was the ceiling.Not saw. Felt. The white of it, the cleanness of it, pressing down on her eyes in a way that made no sense, and she lay there for several seconds trying to locate herself inside a body that felt like it had been taken apart and put back together slightly wrong.Her lungs hurt. Not pain exactly but a rawness, like the inside of her throat had been scraped with something rough, and every breath brought a faint wheeze that she could feel more than hear. Her left side was a dull continuous throb. Her face felt thick on one side, swollen in the particular way that meant the swelling had been there long enough to settle.White ceiling. Clean walls. The smell of antiseptic and something faintly floral underneath it.Not the cell.Her mind reached for the last thing it had and found smoke and orange light and a man's chest and then nothing. She tried to sit up and a hand came down on her shoulder, gentle but firm, stopping her
THE EX WIFE WHO ROSE FROM THE ASHES Chapter 12 : The Fire
LUNA’S POINT OF VIEWI stopped counting the days.At first I tried. I scratched lines in my head. I marked time by meals, by sleep, by the sound of the guard’s boots outside my cell. But somewhere in the third week, it stopped meaning anything. Twenty years is too big to count. It swallows numbers whole.So I stopped.Now I count smaller things.The sound of keys in the morning. The way the evening guard drags his feet. The exact moment the corridor goes quiet at night. The smell of food before it reaches my door.That is what my life is now.Small things.I was sitting on the edge of my bed when I heard them.Three sets of footsteps.I knew them.I always knew them.They did not walk like guards. Guards moved with purpose, but they stopped at every door. These ones did not. They walked straight to mine like they owned the place.My body went still.I did not run. There was nowhere to run.The door opened.They stood there, filling the doorway. Same as before. Same faces. Same empty e
THE EX WIFE WHO ROSE FROM THE ASHES Chapter 11 : Erase Her
ETHAN’S POINT OF VIEWHe started with the wardrobe.It made sense. That was where most of her things lived. The easiest place to begin. The most obvious place to prove that she was gone.He pulled the doors open and stood there for a long time without moving.Her clothes were still arranged the way she kept them. Dresses to one side. Blouses folded with a care that felt almost excessive. Shoes lined up neatly at the bottom, pairs touching, like they belonged to each other.She had always kept things like that. Orderly. Quiet. Nothing out of place.It irritated him.“Pack everything,” he said without turning. “All of it. I don’t want anything left here by tonight.”The maid stepped in behind him. He could hear the soft rustle of fabric as she reached for the hangers.Ethan walked away.He did not want to watch.He went to the window instead. The city stretched out below him, alive and moving. Cars, people, noise that did not reach this high. Everything looked normal. Like nothing had h
THE EX WIFE WHO ROSE FROM THE ASHES Chapter 10 : The Smith Name
LUNA'S POINT OF VIEWThe bruises had started turning yellow when they came to see me.That dull yellow color that sits under the skin like something old and tired. My eye had gone down a little but it still hurt when I blinked too fast. My ribs were worse. Every breath reminded me they were there. Every movement pulled at something deep inside my chest.I had learned how to move slower.How to sit without showing it.How to breathe shallow so it did not hurt too much.Nobody asked what happened.Nobody cared enough to ask.I was in the common area when the guard called my name."Luna Smith. You have visitors."Visitors.The word felt strange. It did not belong to me anymore.I stood up slowly. My body protested in small ways I had already learned to ignore. I followed the guard down the corridor, past the cells, past the noise, past the smell that never really left this place.The visitation room was cold.Not just the air. The feeling.They were already there.Sara sat like she owned
THE EX WIFE WHO ROSE FROM THE ASHES Chapter 9 : Twenty Years
LUNA’S POINT OF VIEWThe courtroom was colder than I expected. Not just the air. Everything felt cold. The walls, the floor, the way people looked at me like I was already decided.I sat beside my lawyer and kept my hands in my lap so no one would see them shaking. I had not slept. Every time I closed my eyes I saw Rose on the floor again. The blood. The way her body had looked too still. And then Ethan’s voice, flat and final. She’s dead.My throat tightened. I forced myself to breathe.“You need to stay calm,” my lawyer whispered. “We will challenge the evidence.”I nodded, even though something inside me already knew this was not going to go the way it should.People kept walking into the room. Quiet voices. Papers shifting. Chairs scraping softly. It all sounded normal. Too normal for a place where someone’s life was about to be decided.I did not look for Ethan, but I felt him when he walked in. Some people you feel without seeing. My chest tightened anyway.The hearing started.
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