The Wife He Left Behind Novels & Stories

Like I was desperate for him to love me. The sound of the front door opening cut through the silence, making my heart jump. I smoothed down my dress quickly before hurrying toward the foyer. “Ethan?” “In here.” His voice sounded distracted. Tired, almost. I rounded the corner with a smile already forming. But once again, it faded as soon as I saw the woman standing beside him. Vivian Laurent, my husband's favorite accessory. She was his newest executive consultant, and had been working closely with him for months now.

and that I wasn't experiencing those kinds of dreams once more. I couldn't help but wonder how my husband would feel when he learned that I was finally bringing him a treasure. Davis Gates, my spouse, is the only heir to the Gates Group and a third-generation billionaire. I have been trying hard every day to win his heart, even though he has been aloof and uninterested in me. Even though he has been distant from me, I have never considered abandoning our family. Now that I was expecting his child, my hopes for a change were even greater.

His once commanding presence now looked small defeated even as the weight of everything crashed in at once. His daughter was on every major news channel. His son had become a mystery, working from the shadows. And his wife the one person who used to stand quietly behind him now looked at him like he was the problem instead of the patriarch. He clenched his fists, muttering under his breath, “First Lena… now Jay… and now woman you are supporting both of them.” Madam Hale paused at the doorway, half-turned, and gave him a knowing smile. “This woman has a name, Richard. It’s your wife. The one who kept forget and abandoned her children and play by your rules while you turned it into a PR disast

"But if you say no, I will lose this bed, I will lose the treatment that is keeping me alive right now. I am not asking you for me. I am asking you because I do not know what else to do." Claire turned away from him and walked to the window. Outside, the city looked exactly the same as it did an hour ago, cars moving, people walking, nothing had changed for anyone else in the whole world except for her. "Does he know anything about me?" she asked without turning around. "Does this man even know my name?" "He knows enough," Richard said quietly. "He agreed to the marriage already." "Of course he did," Claire said. "Men like that do not marry for love. They marry to fix a business problem, and

I think about the divorce signature. The word slams like a door. Like a judgment. Like a punishment. And yet, I'm the one who will sign it. I'm the one who will make it real. Because I no longer have a choice. I already lost myself by staying. I can't afford to lose myself again by retreating. But it hurts. Terribly. I think of him. Of Marius. Of the way he used to look at me. Before. Before she arrived. Before I became too simple, too sad, too transparent. Before he abandoned me to glorify her instead.

Nora Bellweather married a man who never loved her. When she found proof of his betrayal, something in her went quiet and hard. Then, drowning her grief in a dim bar one night, she saw three faces from a past she thought she'd buried for good. The next morning, her husband walked in with three important guests, and she nearly dropped the teapot in her hands. It was them. Older, sharper, wealthier, and dangerous in ways they never used to be. They had once loved her without limits before everything fell apart. Now they were back in her house, in her life, refusing to stay away. Nora cannot forgive what tore them apart years ago, and she will not survive another heartbreak in a marriage that h

Seven years into my mission to win Stephanie Chelle's heart, I had helped her become one of the business world's rising stars. And yet, she divorced me for her first love. All because her first love was terminally ill, and she had promised to marry him. I refused to give up and begged her to stay. "Once we're divorced, I won't remember you anymore." But she impatiently shook off my hand. "Can you stop being so selfish? Grayson is dying, and you're still fighting for my attention?" Later, I remembered everyone except Stephanie. Yet she came to me with red-rimmed eyes, begging me to come back.

At my nephew's college celebration, I ran into my ex-fiancée, whom I hadn't seen in five years. She was dressed to the nines, surrounded by our former classmates. The moment Willow Radcliff saw me, her eyes went red. "You were alive this whole time, Orson. Why didn't you come back to me?" I looked away, wanting to leave. She stopped me and pulled out the engagement ring from years ago. "I sabotaged your college applications three times and forced you to repeat your senior year for three years. And when the fire happened, I chose Gareth over you. I was wrong. "For five years, I've regretted what I did. Now, I want to keep my promise. I want to marry you. Please, give me a chance to make

On the anniversary of her passing, I drove back to my hometown to visit my wife Scarlett Parker’s grave. It had been three long years since she passed. I shattered right there by the headstone, choking on my own sobs. Beside me, her older brother, Silas Parker, stood in complete silence, exhaling thick clouds of cigarette smoke. Later that night, we were sharing a few drinks when he brought it up, acting like it was just a casual thought. "Hey, by the way... Didn't you and Scarlett have a friend back when you worked in federal security? A guy named Mark Miller?" My hand froze, the glass shaking in my grip. Mark Miller wasn't a real person. It was a code name Scarlett and I came up with

It’s obvious that whenever an affair comes out the mistress is the one that gets hurt while the man tries to fix things with his wife. He made it clear to me when we started this that he will never leave his wife; he didn’t lie to me, and he told me what he wanted from me and what his intensions were. He delivered, he did everything he said he would; he loved me more than I have ever been loved and he made me happy just like he said he would. Like he told me before that he is not planning on leaving his wife is the reason, I know he will do anything to make her stay and that includes leaving me.