After I Died, My Husband Went Mad
His face was calm, and gentle.
“Naomi,” he whispered, “I’m tired.”
That night, he turned on the gas, and ended his life in the room where I had once waited for him.
When they found him, he was lying beside my ashes, holding our wedding photo in his hand.
Mom and Dad could not bear the blow.
They had lost me first, then Lily to prison and madness, and finally watched Adrian destroy himself. Their guilt became heavier than their bodies could carry.
The Kesly company collapsed soon after. Dad had spent too much trying to make up for my death, and enemies used the scandal to tear the business apart. Everything they once valued vanished.