บททั้งหมดของ The Wife He Chose Too Late: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 5

Claire's POVDamien's words settled over the room with all the force of a collapsing building. "We will need to discuss the divorce arrangements this week."For a moment, I wasn't sure I had heard him correctly. The candles flickered softly between us. The meal I had spent hours preparing filled the penthouse with the scent of garlic and rosemary. Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, Manhattan glittered beneath the darkening sky.Everything looked exactly as it had thirty seconds ago and yet somehow everything felt different. I stared at my husband.My husband.The phrase suddenly felt fragile and temporary like something that was already slipping through my fingers. Damien seemed completely unaware of the damage he had done. He was watching me carefully, but not because he knew he had hurt me. He was simply waiting for a response, waiting for a practical conversation, waiting to discuss lawyers and paperwork and financial settlements and waiting to discuss the end of our marriage.I

Claire's POVThe message remained open on my phone long after I had finished reading it.Outside the penthouse windows, Manhattan glittered beneath the deepening evening sky, its countless lights stretching toward the horizon like stars scattered across black velvet. Normally I loved this view. There was something reassuring about watching the city continue its restless movement no matter what was happening in my own life. Tonight, however, I barely noticed it.My attention remained fixed on the message Damien had sent.Dinner tonight. We need to discuss what happens after the divorce.The words were simple enough. There was nothing cruel about them. Damien had always been direct, and if there was one thing I could never accuse him of, it was dishonesty. Four years ago, when he had first proposed our arrangement, he had made the terms perfectly clear. The marriage would last four years. At the end of those four years, we would go our separate ways.The problem was not that Damien had