All Chapters of I Became The Lunatic's Wife And He Knows I'm Not Her : Chapter 1 - Chapter 3

The first thing I noticed was the smell of antiseptic. The second was that I was not supposed to be alive.My last memory was a kaleidoscope of rain-slicked windows and the glow of my laptop. Three chapters left of a novel I despised from the first page yet couldn't stop reading—The Billionaire’s Obsession. A glossy, bloody thing about a lunatic tycoon and the woman he destroyed. Then headlights. A flash of blinding white. Nothing.Now, I stared at a ceiling I didn’t recognize, an IV taped to the back of a hand that wasn’t mine, and a dull, heavy ache low in my belly that felt like a warning.“Mrs. Black? Can you hear me?”A nurse leaned over the bed, her expression carefully blank with the pity people reserve for women who have done something foolish.Mrs. Black.My heart stuttered, then slammed against my ribs hard enough to bruise.“What’s my name?” My voice came out cracked and thin, a stranger’s throat.The nurse blinked. “Vanessa. Vanessa Black. You were brought in last night af

Morning arrived with a headache and a theory.The theory was this: Julian Hale’s weapon wasn’t something he’d stolen from Adrian. It was something the real Vanessa had left lying around. The novel never said how he got the file, only that the secrets read aloud on that stage were hers. Her shames. Her lies. Her humiliating little pleas.Women like Vanessa always keep a record of their misery.I found a breakfast tray outside my door, still warm, with a note in sharp black handwriting: Eat. Both of you.I stared at the last two words until my skin prickled. Both. He could have meant the wife and the stranger inside her. He could have meant something else entirely. Something that made my stomach drop and my thighs press together under the silk of the robe. I ate everything anyway, chewing slowly while my mind raced through the plot of a book I’d skimmed months ago.Vanessa’s dressing room was the size of my old apartment, and every hanger held something beige. Beige silk. Beige cashmere