Two Can Play: I Became My Ex's Mother-in-law のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 5

Clarissa ​My husband of seven years is getting married to a younger girl in four weeks, and I'm accidentally finding out through the wedding card he hid in our bedroom. My hands trembled as I stood there reading the bold embroidered letters. *Drake and Brittany,* it reads in an elegant, looping script. Together with their families, invite you to celebrate… As those words blurred my vision, I felt a strange, cold numbness wash over me, starting from my toes and crawling up to my chest until it stole the air right out of my throat. We were still married. We shared a bed—or at least, we shared the same mattress while he turned his back to me all night. ​I had spent five years of our seven-year marriage trying to save us. I had endured the hormone injections that made my hair thin and my moods swing like a pendulum. I had suffered through six miscarriages, each one taking a piece of my soul with it, leaving me hollow and exhausted. I had endured the doctor's hopeless fertility ap

Clarissa Returning to the Hudson mansion was the last thing I wanted.Ever since things ended with Valentine, I've been living with this constant pit of shame. The words I said to him still made my stomach twist. I wasn't some bold seductress; I was a desperate wife who had crossed a line I never thought I'd attempt.​It felt cheap. Disgusting.​Then, my sister's face flashed in my mind. Pale. Weak. Hooked up to life support in that hospital bed.​That image crushed whatever pride I had left. Shame wouldn't pay her medical bills. Regret wouldn't keep her breathing.​I had already slept with a billionaire almost twice my age. Was that all I was to him? ​No.​A plan finally clicked. I didn't need to become his plaything. I needed to be someone of value to him so that he wouldn't see me as a passing temptation.I couldn't turn my brain off until exhaustion finally dragged me under, right there in the guest room Drake had forced me into.Just as dawn was breaking, I was already awake an

Clarissa​I had signed Drake's divorce papers and finalized my marriage with Valentine.But defying Drake came with a price. Yesterday, when he finally realized I wasn't going to crawl back, he made his next move. He hired another quant to imitate the work I had spent years building and withdrew my twin sister’s medical support. For three weeks after my resignation, he had kept her bills paid—not out of kindness, but as a bargaining chip, hoping the fear of losing her would force me back under his control. But he was wrong.Even the air smelled like victory, but I was just getting started. When he realizes I am Mrs. Gaston, there will be nothing he can do to stop me from protecting my sister anymore.But victory came with its own complications. Maybe including a ‘no sex, no love and no feelings’ clause with Valentine was the right call after all. The first night was a mistake born from anger but a marriage built on desire would be another cage. Aside from that, I was terrified—not jus