C. D
"Sign it, Seraphine. Marguerite is waiting."
That was the last thing he said to her before the crash. I know because I read it, word for word, on a train that carried me home for the last time.
I hated that ending. I cried over a stranger's death and fell asleep cursing the man who let her die.
Then I opened my eyes in her bed, with her wedding ring on my finger and her unborn child beneath my palm.
"Welcome, Host," a cold voice whispered. "You have ninety days before the plot claims you."
Ninety days. One husband who has never loved her. One ending that has already been written in blood.
But I know what happens next. I know who smiles at the funeral and who really pulled the strings. And this time, the wife isn't begging.
"I want a divorce, Evander."
His face goes white. Good.
Now he is on his knees in the rain, crying out for the woman he threw away, while she walks away with his heir and no intention of looking back.
He wrote me out of his life. I'm rewriting the ending.
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