Half the Fortune, All My Freedom
Everyone in Riverton knew Serena Prescott, the heiress of the Prescott family, collected boyfriends for the short term and never kept them for long.
In five years of marriage, she had gone through ninety-nine new lovers.
People in our circle said I had world-class patience, that I was the perfect husband who could endure anything.
Then a swimming coach named Mason Clark appeared at Serena's side.
Mason came from an ordinary family, yet he made her break her own rule about never bringing new lovers home.
Serena gave me two choices.
Either calmly accept him moving in, or take the money and leave, ending our marriage.
Everyone was waiting to see me swallow my pride for love and keep playing the useless, obedient husband.
This time, I chose divorce.
Because in my last life, I chose to endure it, and all I got was Mason pushing further and further.
He forbade Serena from sharing a room with me and only allowed her to see me once a month.
In the end, the two of them had a son and a daughter and lived in endless glory.
I guarded a marriage that existed in name only, then died of illness in a nursing home.
Now that I've been given another life, I no longer have any attachment to her.
I took half the fortune in exchange for the freedom of the rest of my life.