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Zeroed Out
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I was nine months pregnant and days away from my due date when my husband vanished without a trace, leaving behind nothing but a handwritten note. 'Babe, there's a planetary alignment that only happens once every 77 years, and I just got pulled through a time portal. Don't miss me. See you when I see you.' In our three years of marriage, he had made a habit of inventing some absurd excuse just to take Fiona Crest on another vacation. That same night, the rage and heartbreak sent me into premature labor. My water broke, and I was rushed to the hospital. While I was suffering through contractions so brutal that I wanted to die, he was in Nordvalen watching the aurora with Fiona. While I hemorrhaged on the delivery table and barely clung to life, he was riding a hot air balloon with Fiona above the clouds. While I fought my way back from the edge of death to bring our son into the world, he was kissing Fiona under a cascade of fireworks at the foot of the Aurelian Tower. A few days before the baby turned a month old, he sauntered back carrying a two-dollar bootleg action figure and announced, "Babe, I'm back! Look what I brought our son. We're all going to be so happy together." I finally saw through every last lie, and whatever hope I had left died on the spot. On the day of the celebration, I vanished too, leaving behind a single note of my own. 'The Gamma homeworld has summoned me back to my planet. I'm taking the kid and ditching the dad. Don't miss me. Don't wait up.'
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Zeroed Out Chapter 8
She reached for me, but I turned away before her hand could make contact.The coldness in my eyes cut her deeply, but compared to three years of torment and her complete indifference while I nearly died on the delivery table, whatever pain she felt now was nothing.Nancy crumpled to the floor and broke down completely. She clutched at her chest, her voice raw and shredded. "I did this to myself. God, this is what I deserve. What have I done? I nearly killed my own daughter!"Watching the two of them fall apart in front of me, drowning in their own guilt, I felt a deep and thorough satisfaction.I picked up the share transfer documents and the letter from the table before pushing open the conference room doors. Sunlight hit my face the moment I stepped out of the building, and it felt like the first breath of a new life.I stood bathed in light on the other side of those doors, while Jasper and Nancy remained trapped inside, where they would live with their regret forever.I wrapp
Zeroed Out Chapter 7
Jasper had no interest in the chatter around him, not until the elevator doors opened.The figure who stepped out was one he knew by heart, but everything else about it had changed. He froze where he stood and could not move.The woman in front of him was not the disheveled, worn-down version he remembered. I was radiant. During our three years of marriage, I had never looked the way I did now. I was dressed head to toe in couture, flanked by two bodyguards, and I walked straight toward the conference room without breaking stride.As I passed Jasper, he reached out and caught my hand, his voice barely holding together. "Te... Tessa."I turned and smiled, letting it reach my eyes. "Hello, Mr. Wynn. My name is Diana."My bodyguards pulled him aside before he could say another word.I took the seat at the head of the conference table, and Jasper eventually sank into the chair across from me, looking as though the ground had caved in from under him.He stared at me for the entire me
Zeroed Out Chapter 6
"Did you know she nearly bled out on the delivery table? She almost died in that room."Nancy shot back, "You're blaming me? Where did you disappear to?"Jasper looked at his mother, who was still spitting the phrase 'that woman' like it was something foul, and it finally clicked. For three years, every time he was not home, I was subjected to his mother's insults and her constant belittling. It was his fault. He had never once given me any standing in this family, and that had given his mother permission to treat me however she pleased.Nancy was still ripping into me when Jasper cut her off, "Enough, Mom. She's gone. She's completely gone. Why are you still tearing into her?"She actually smiled. "Good thing I never let you register the marriage legally. She leaves with nothing this way. There are no divorce papers, no settlement. She won't see a single cent of the Wynn family's money."Jasper stared at the woman in front of him and felt like he was looking at a stranger. He c
Zeroed Out Chapter 5
Jasper did not have time to be angry. He floored it all the way to the hotel.The moment he walked into the banquet hall, the massive screen behind the stage was playing footage of him and Fiona in bed together. The sounds filled the entire room, raw and unmistakable, while the images on display laid their affair bare for every guest to see."Turn it off!" Jasper barked. "Turn it off now!"The host fumbled with the controls in a panic, but nothing worked. I had paid him well in advance to make sure the video played all the way through.One by one, the photos appeared on screen. Every single one showed Jasper and Fiona living it up abroad. Then, the final few slides hit.They were hospital consent forms for emergency surgery and an amniotic fluid embolism report, and on every document, the signature line for next of kin was blank.The last image was a photo of me, drenched in blood, lying on a stretcher as I was rushed into emergency surgery.The montage ended with a written stat
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