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ARIAThe morning light filters through the hospital blinds, casting prison-bar shadows across my bed.The kind nurse enters with discharge papers and a plastic bag containing my personal items."The doctor has approved your release, Ms. Taylor. Someone will be in shortly with a wheelchair to escort you out.""Thank you." My voice sounds mechanical, detached. I've barely spoken since signing those papers yesterday.I dress slowly, my body still weak. The clothes they brought hang loose on my frame.The Armani suit that once symbolized my power now drapes over me like a costume.I catch my reflection in the bathroom mirror and barely recognize myself. My skin looks ashen against the crisp white collar. The dark circles under my eyes make them appear sunken and my hangs limp despite my attempts to style it.A different nurse arrives shortly with the wheelchair. "Hospital policy," she explains when I protest that I can walk. Her kindness feels like pity, which makes it worse somehow."My
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ARIAMy fingers twist the thin hospital blanket, grabbing for something real while my whole life falls apart."Don’t be unreasonable, Aria," Xavier says. "We're offering you a dignified exit. A clean break.""There's nothing dignified about this." My voice sounds strange in my own ears. "You're trying to erase me."Xavier sighs. He reaches into his fancy leather briefcase and pulls out a manila folder."I didn't want to do this." He opens the folder, spreading photos across my bed. "But you leave me no choice."The images hit me like punches to the gut. Me, looking drunk at some club I've never been to. Me, wrapped around a guy I've never met. Me, walking into a hotel room with someone just familiar enough to seem real but too blurry to actually identify. The dates, the places...all perfectly picked to tell a story about me cheating and being reckless."These are fake." I push them away, my hand shaking. "I was never there. I never did any of this.""It doesn't matter what's real anym
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VIVIANThe hospital room door swings open and the sight of her almost makes me smile, but I catch myself.Aria looks terrible. Pale and small on top of the white sheets. Her skin has a grayish tinge, her once-lustrous hair limp around her face. The IV in her arm makes her look fragile. Nothing like the confident woman who stole my place at Harrington Consolidated. Nothing like the usurper who took the husband that should have been mine.The satisfaction that floods through me is almost physical in its intensity.I remember how she looked at the charity gala a few months back, radiant in Valentino, commanding the room, accepting the Businesswoman of the Year award that should have been mine.How everyone fawned over her success, her brilliance, her beauty. Now look at her. Broken. Defeated. As she always should have been."Aria, darling," Mom coos, rushing to her bedside. "We came as soon as we could get through those dreadful reporters. How are you feeling?" She takes Aria's hand betw
The Substitute Bride's Revenge Final Confrontation
VIVIANI smooth my Chanel dress as we step out of the Limited-Edition Bentley.The reporters part for us like the Red Sea. They know better than to block a Harrington.The thrill of power courses through me, intoxicating and sweet. This is what I was born for. This moment of triumph after months of watching from the sidelines while Aria took everything that should have been mine.Questions about Aria's HIV status flies around us in a relentless torrent. Reporters are desperate to get a statement from us upon seeing us at the hospital.“Miss Taylor and Mrs. Pierce-Taylor, is it true Aria got HIV from drugs and a wild lifestyle?” someone yells, shoving a mic right at mom.“Xavier, did you see it coming? Were there signs?” another reporter calls out.“Is this why you’re divorcing her? Was the diagnosis the final straw?” a guy in a wrinkled suit demands, practically shoving his way through the crowd.“Vivian! Are you taking over Taylor’s Tech now that your dad’s out and Aria’s reputation
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ARIAThe hospital room feels like it’s closing in on me by morning. The air’s too still. Too heavy. My eyes are raw from crying through the night, but the ache in my chest is worse. I’ve never felt this shattered. Not even close.I grab my phone again, praying for something. Anything. But the screen is blank. No calls. No messages. Nothing from Michael. Just silence, cold and endless, staring right back at me.I refresh it for the hundredth time, hands shaking and still hoping.The battery percentage drops lower with each desperate check. 72%. 71%. Counting down like my own dying hope.I can see reporters gathering like vultures outside my window. They've been there since someone leaked my diagnosis to the press.The headlines flash across my social media feeds faster than I can block them with #Tages like, "Harrington Former Executive Harbors Hidden Disease" and "Reckless Ex-Wife Endangers Business Partners." Each notification feels like a knife twisting deeper into my chest.I try t
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MICHAELI catch glimpses of the other club patrons. Some look shocked, some titillated by the drama, most already turning back to their drinks and conversations. Rich people problems. Nothing that concerns them.Xavier and Vivian follow like we're all going to a pleasant business meeting. Once inside, one of the security men drives his fist into my stomach and I double over, gasping for breath that won't come.Another fist slams into my ribs with a crack that suggests something just broke.I taste copper as blood fills my mouth."You've been in love with my wife," Xavier states flatly, watching me struggle for breath.He leans against a stack of boxes, completely at ease."Did you think I didn't notice? The way you looked at her when you thought no one was watching? How you always volunteered to stay late when she was working? How quickly you jumped ship to follow her?"Another blow lands on my face—a backhand that snaps my head to the side and makes stars explode across my vision.I
The Substitute Bride's Revenge Emotional Turmoil
MICHAELI watch Aria disappear into the bathroom, her footsteps unsteady and her shoulders hunched forward like she's been physically beaten.The door clicks shut, and her struggle breaks something inside me.The silence that follows is deafening—more painful than if she were screaming or crying. It's the silence of someone whose world has just flipped over.Dr. Winters sits across from me, trying to maintain her calm demeanor, but I can see the genuine pain in her eyes."I know this is devastating news.” Her voice barely carry across the room. "Take all the time you need to process this."I can barely hear her over the thunder of my own heartbeat.HIV. Three letters that just changed everything. Three letters that bastard Xavier weaponized against the woman I love.Three letters designed to destroy Aria's very soul."What happens now?" I manage to ask. My throat feels like I've swallowed broken glass. I need to focus on something concrete, something I can grasp onto while everything
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ARIAI wake hours later to a dim hospital room. The blinds are drawn against the morning light.My head feels stuffed with cotton and my mouth dry from the sedative.For one blessed moment, I don't remember and then it all comes crashing back. The diagnosis. MedScuttle. The beginning of the end.Fresh tears spring to my eyes, but I blink them back. Crying won't fix this. Nothing will fix this.Xavier has made sure my diagnosis… something that should have remained private, something that modern medicine can manage, will define me completely.In the public eye, I won't be Aria Taylor, the brilliant executive who escapes a toxic marriage. I'll be Aria Taylor, the HIV-positive woman whose "lifestyle choices" destroyed her career.A soft knock at the door interrupts my thoughts. I expect another nurse, but it's Michael who enters.His eyes are red-rimmed from lack of sleep and his usually immaculate appearance disheveled. He looks like he's aged years overnight."You shouldn't be here.” My
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ARIAThe words make my thnking malfunction.I stare at him, waiting for my brain to process what he just said."That's impossible!" I finally manage. "There must be a mistake.""We've run the tests three times.” His tone shifts to that talking-to-a-difficult-child voice doctors sometimes use. "The results are conclusive."The social worker leans in. "This must be shocking news, but there are really good support groups for newly diagnosed people. Treatment options have come a long way."The administrator clears her throat. "I should go over our hospital policies for patients with communicable conditions. There are certain protocols—""Stop!" I cut her off, my brain finally kicking into gear. "This diagnosis is impossible. I've never been in an intimate relationship with anyone. Plus, I was tested six months ago during my annual physical and it was negative. Nothing has changed since then."Dr. Kapoor's face changes. "Sometimes patients aren't aware of all their exposure risks. HIV can
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