Five Years as My Wife's Lapdog
Marissa Caldwell marries me to save the man she truly loves, Damian Davenhurst. For five years, she never once treats me like her husband.
To her friends, I'm nothing more than a fool who comes running whenever she calls and disappears whenever she tells me to leave.
"Cyrus Halden, you're basically her lapdog. She calls, you come running. She tells you to leave, and you leave."
Whenever they laugh at me like that, Marissa simply smiles and says nothing.
Once, when I'm burning up with a fever that won't break, she leaves the country with Damian just to escape her mother's constant nagging. Another time, I drink until I'm vomiting blood from a stomach ulcer during a business dinner whi