My Safe Harbor
At the banquet, the most wanted bachelor of Rivenport announced that my stepsister was the woman he truly wished to marry.
Without hesitation, I stepped aside and married Simon Barker, who had been pursuing me for years.
Our married life was filled with love and happiness.
That joy lasted until I finally became pregnant, when I discovered he had been slipping contraceptives into the milk he gave me every night.
I also found a custom diamond necklace he kept in his safe that was labelled "For proposal", but the engraving bore my stepsister's initials.
It became clear that I had only ever been an obstacle he needed to remove for the woman he truly loved. All those years, he had pretended to love me, but he was just using me as a stepping stone for my stepsister's bright future.
No matter how blind I had been before, now I was fully awake to the truth.
With a consent form for abortion and a divorce agreement in hand, Simon and I became strangers forever.