Married To The Unknown Novels & Stories

Let her walk out feeling like she won something. Now that same sentence sat differently. Not like the final word of a woman who had lost. Like the quiet warning of a woman who already knew what was coming. And had chosen to tell me anyway. Something wasn't adding up. The woman I had been married to had been careful. Reserved. Always slightly apart from the world around her, like she was watching it from a distance she had chosen for herself. I had mistaken that distance for smallness. For a life that did not extend far beyond what I could see.

CJ shot back, jabbing at Rick. "Yeah, it's you," Josh concurred, jabbing at Rick too. "Oh, now you're blaming one another? You two are hopeless," I said, shaking my head. "Wait—we should be asking." Rick started. "When's the wedding?!" they all chimed in together. "I don't know?!" I shrugged. "Ah! You're a useless groom," Rick dismissed with a wave of his hand. "Hey, look, it's your mom!" CJ said, and we all turned around.

Cain babbled, his voice breaking as he attempted to explain. My father's cold snort reverberated through the crowd. "A misunderstanding? I arrive one step late to Oberis City and find my daughter beaten and humiliated. Do enlighten me—how does such a misunderstanding come to pass?" I couldn't suppress a bitter laugh. "Who in Oberis City doesn't know that Cain married the daughter of Lith City's mayor, Mary? Yet here I am, a perfectly innocent young woman whose reputation has been dragged through the mud, accused of being married to a man I've never even spoken to."

================================= *Back at the present time. "--- If there's anything to blame for your father and Marlene's closeness, it's me, Lance. I didn't really know that he was married. He didn't have any identification, and even though we posted his photo all over the area, no one is still looking for him. And one more thing, he wasn't wearing a ring when we saw him. And because of that the two couldn't help but fall in love with each other. And their love blossomed. Marlene gave birth to a healthy girl." Robert continues on with his story. Lance didn't dare to speak, as he is still overwhelmed with all these shocking revelations.

Something I couldn’t switch off just because he had decided to shut me out. “Stupid,” I whispered to myself. “So stupid.” I rolled over, reaching for my phone on the nightstand. Maybe distraction would help. Maybe Susan had texted me again. But when the screen lit up, it wasn’t Susan’s name I saw. It wasn’t anyone I recognized. Unknown Number. The message was short. Only one line. “You don’t really know the man you’re married to.” My stomach dropped. Before I could process it, another notification buzzed through. An image. I tapped it with trembling fingers.

"Delia, why do you keep insisting on that title? You know as well as I do that you aren't his wife. Not legally, not truly." "We are married; I am his wife." I snapped, looking at him. "But now, it's just... cold." "Except you are not his wife and never were. The marriage is more than just cold," Victor said, sitting forward. He didn't look like he was joking. "I’ve had my people investigate that man top to bottom. Why do you keep acting like you have a claim to him? I investigated that man; he is married, but it's definitely not to you, and the name of the wife is unknown. Unless you are the unknown wife?"

"And if I do, what are you going to do to me? Kill me? Look, what you are asking for is impossible. I'm already married" "I know you are married and that no one knows you are married and who you are married to. In fact, the man you are married to... everyone knows he is married but no one knows he is married to you. Let me guess, he's ashamed of you and cannot afford tainting his reputation by introducing such an unknown human to the world" he laughed mockingly. "Think whatever you wish. I belong to him and to him alone" "Good. I didn't call you up to exchange words with you. My revenge plan has been set into motion. All I have to do is sit and watch it as it unfolds "

Something that was not quite a smile but was worse than one. "It doesn't matter," she said quietly. "None of this matters. Your little power performance, the title, the whole show you've been putting on." She sat back. "Someone is coming tomorrow. Someone very important to Liam. Someone who has always been important to Liam, in ways that have nothing to do with alliance contracts or arranged marriages." She let that sit for exactly one second. "It's strange, isn't it? That you married someone and you don't even know the full story of who he is? What he's done? Who he has loved?"

“I’m just wondering why you’re still with Hannah. You’ve been married to Eunice for four months now.” I didn’t speak. I don’t really know what to answer him. Well, for four months, Hannah hasn’t known that I was married. She stayed the same and I believe that I did, too. “I love Hannah,” I uttered with conviction but I don’t really know who I am convincing, Stan or myself? For the past four months, Eunice has been really off. She’s always ignoring me—especially these past few days. She’s always seeing to it that I don’t see her at home. She’s usually out with friends before I sleep and she’s not around when I wake up.

Married. To him. LATER THAT NIGHT… “What do you mean you’re married to Xavier Knight?” Mira gasped through the phone. “I don’t know! I didn’t mean to!” I whisper-yelled. “I just signed some stupid papers” “You’re telling me you accidentally married the hottest, most arrogant senior in school?! Girl, I’ve had dreams about that!” “This is not a dream,” I groaned. “It’s a nightmare. Someone banged at the door. I flinched.