All Chapters of Tit For Tat Marriage : Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

I stared at the wedding photographs scattered across the floor. In my anger, I had knocked almost everything over, and my eyes were swollen and red from crying. My head throbbed painfully, but I barely noticed.I didn’t even know how I had made it home. All I could remember was leaving that hotel with a thousand questions running through my mind.When had it started? How long had they been doing this? How could the two people I trusted most betray me so cruelly?I reached into my handbag, took out a painkiller, and swallowed it, hoping it would ease the headache. Unfortunately, no medicine could take away the pain sitting in my chest.After a while, I forced myself to pick up the photographs I had thrown around and put everything back in its proper place.As hurt as I was, I wasn’t going to expose Ethan just yet. I wanted to see how far he intended to take this pretence. I wanted to hear what he would say when he came home and looked me in the eyes.I freshened up, trying to make myse

I stood outside the hotel room longer than I meant to. The corridor was quiet, the kind of quiet that made every small sound feel too loud. The hotel sat far enough from the city centre to feel hidden, yet close enough that the drive had not given me time to change my mind. I adjusted the mask on my face, drew a slow breath that did nothing to steady me, and knocked.The door opened almost at once.Cole stood there with a towel hanging low on his hips. Water still traced the lines of his chest and stomach, catching the low light. His body was lean and solid, nothing like the softer frame I had grown used to at home. I swallowed before I could stop myself.He gave a small, calm smile.“Come in.”I stepped inside. The room was dim and cool, the air carrying a faint trace of soap and clean skin. I sat on the edge of the couch without removing my mask, hands locked tightly together in my lap. Everything about this felt strange. Necessary. Wrong.Cole poured a glass of wine and held it out

Ethan “Why did you give me the wrong information? Huh?”I shouted into the phone until my throat burned.“But sir, that’s what I saw,” my assistant replied timidly on the other end.“She wasn’t the one! And now I have to face the consequences of your neglect. Do I pay you to keep an eye on her for nothing?”Before he could answer, I hung up and threw the phone onto the couch. Frustration burned through every part of me. Everything had been falling into place until now. I had been waiting for one tiny mistake from Sienna—just one—so I could strip her of everything she had and leave her with nothing in the divorce. But if the devil worked hard, Sienna was working harder. I couldn’t find a single piece of usable dirt on her. No late nights. No suspicious calls. No secret meetings. Nothing.She had left me downstairs in the sitting room after our argument, anger still clear in the way she walked away. Now I had to go upstairs and fix it before the night got worse. I forced the usual smil

“Ma’am, are you back at the office?”I looked up. It was Ethan’s personal assistant, the one who had seen me with Cole’s name on my phone and run straight to Ethan with the story. He had been keeping an eye on me for months, always one step behind me, always smiling.“What does it look like to you?” I lifted the paper bag in my hand. “Oh, and I’m here to deliver food.”He laughed awkwardly. “Of course, ma’am. No, I was just happy to see you.”I scoffed inwardly. Happy to watch my moves, more like. His eyes slid past me toward Ethan’s door and back again, a very small movement. I noticed it anyway.“Fine,” I said sweetly. “We’ll see about that.”He hurried off, and a moment later I heard his chair creak, the sound of a man settling in to report.I walked into my office and shut the door. I had been away for months, ever since the miscarriage that nearly took my life. I had spent weeks in a hospital bed learning to breathe without crying, while Ethan sat beside me holding my hand and ch