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To repay Victor for saving my life, I gave up a brilliant career as one of America's finest neurosurgeons and willingly became his trophy wife.
For seven years, Victor lavished money on me and treated me with bone-deep tenderness. Yet his obsessive rules suffocated me.
Every other week, I had to subject my scalp to agonizing bleach treatments to keep my hair icy platinum.
I had to bathe in a discontinued Venetian white iris perfume.
And I had to wear a fake beauty mark at the corner of my right eye.
I once mistook it all for the obsessive devotion of a Mafia Don. Then, on the eve of our wedding of the century, I found a wall covered with portraits of another woman.
The measurements of my gown, the carat weight of my ring, even the beauty mark Victor had tattooed beside my eye, all came from a dead woman's final wishes.
After seven years of consuming passion, I was never his salvation. I was a living specimen, crafted to harbor the ghost of a dead woman.