The Abandoned Wife's Second Chance Novels & Stories

It was about arranged marriages, business partnerships disguised as romance, the human cost of treating people like assets. She'd written it the year before we got married. She'd known exactly what our marriage would be, and she'd married me anyway. Because her father was dying and needed the money. Because she'd sacrificed her own happiness for family. Just like I was asking her to do again. My phone rang. Unknown number. "Mr. Ashford?" A woman's voice, professional. "This is Dr. Sarah Chen from Brooklyn Methodist. I'm Nadia Laurent's OB-GYN." My pulse quickened. "Is she alright? The baby"

She didn't know the man she was seeing was married, so she got pregnant with that man's child. Later, she found out and, angry, she asked the man for money, threatening to abort the child if he didn't pay. She had actually already aborted the child. Originally, she just wanted to get back at the scumbag, but she didn't expect that he would have her sent to prison for blackmailing him. Huh, how ridiculous... During her time in prison, Emily kept saying men were not good at all, and she would never easily trust a man again. After being released, she wanted to use men as stepping stones and climbing up the social ladder step by step.

I ended the call and stood in the empty room in complete silence. My phone rang. My lawyer. "I have a preliminary finding on the shareholder," he said. "The purchases were made through a shell company. It is clean and it is well structured. Whoever set this up did not do it recently." He paused. "Andre, this structure was built years ago. Well before your marriage." I looked at the empty room around me. The empty wardrobe. The made bed. The window that looked out over the garden in the dark. Before the marriage. I said one name out loud in the empty house.

"I love you. We can fix this. I swear, I’ll do anything….." "Stop!" I shouted, my chest rising up angrily with my eyes closed. "I’m not your fixer, Ethan. You don’t get to use me anymore. You don’t get to use her either. Or do you think I don't know anything? You want to wire off the business in your name but Nadine was smart enough to always decline. All I just want now, is my peace, Ethan. Just leave." I whispered tiredly and turned my back to leave but his next words stopped me in my tracks. “You can never find the right person for you, Gabby. It's better you know that now. I will instruct Lila to abort the pregnancy and she will be out of our lives so we can make babies. I am the only on

“I’ve just come from one of the orphanages sponsored by the royal pack, and I’d like to know about your relationship with Abigail,” I opened the conversation and went straight to the point. “Abigail…” she murmured. “The orphanage director told me you once came to adopt a boy but changed your mind and saw me at the playground with Abigail,” I tried to jog her memory. “Yes…” she let out a sigh and began telling me of what happened back then. “Many years ago, my husband, a member of one of the mafia gangs, fell in love with me at first sight and even went so far as to reject his mate, forcing me to marry him,” she said.

Does he know the sacrifices I've endured throughout these three years of marriage? Yet, amidst my role as a wife, I didn't give up on my studies completely. I secretly took online classes, which Crestwood University kindly offered to me. I focused on Advanced Programming, keeping it a secret because I didn't want any trouble from Mrs. Cornell. She believed I should only concentrate on taking care of Philip. That's also why I decided not to hire a maid. Lost in thought, the wind's chill seeping into my skin as I walked along the road.

He said, and I could not believe this bitch. "Of course, you know it is a tall dream that won't be granted. The court has no power to do such. Thus, it was thrown out." He said and sighed, then leaned closer, resting on his desk. "But I believe she and her lawyer knew this already. There was no way her legal council wouldn't have told her it was impossible. I know she did it deliberately. She is building her case of an abandoned wife, and this will only help her prove her case. Her desperation to be with her husband.." he said, and I understood his angle.

Despite her fear of him, Ashley stood her ground for the first time since stepping foot into the Montclair family manor. For her sake and that of her unborn child, she wasn’t going to back down anymore. She was tired of the Montclair family looking down on her and acting as though they were above her. And how dare he call her dumb? Wasn’t he the one who had stopped her from working at the family company? The one who took away the position given to her by patriarch Gerald? He had forced her to abandon her dreams and turned her into a housewife with no ambitions. And now he was handing her divorce papers and acting as if she was nothing.

I’m just your wife…" Sophia’s POV: Yes, I’m only a wife on paper. Legally bound, but not in the way we live our lives. Seven years have passed… and nothing has changed between us. Except that I no longer need to work to fund my studies or feed my family. I live in a beautiful home and no longer fear my father, who does nothing but drink and hurt people.