Contracted to him
‘He’s a married man.
A wave of nausea, hot and thick, rose in my throat at the realization. The hypocrisy of it was staggering. The press, the rumors, the careful way Theodore conducted himself, it was all a lie. He wasn't a bachelor, he was a man with a wife, a child on the way, and he was currently attempting to buy a woman to serve as his private plaything. I felt like a common thief, a predator lurking in the shadows of a sanctified home. I had spent years being the "loyal" wife to a man who treated me like trash, and now, in my desperation, I was about to become the very thing I despised.
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