Chapter 5
When I woke up, the blood under me had completely dried. Even the agonizing pain in my stomach had gone quiet.
I touched where my abdomen was and realized the baby had really left me.
In an instant, tears poured down my face. I couldn’t stop crying.]
Only Ronan’s signature on the divorce papers gave me any comfort.[]
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I picked up the pen he’d thrown on the floor and carefully wrote my name in the other column.
Each stroke felt like it took a century, but it was also ridiculously simple.[]
I couldn’t believe it end my toxic relationship with Ronan after all these years was so easy.
And I still felt lost too.
For so many years, my youth and most of my twenties were tied up with Ronan. Without the chains of being “Mrs. Henstone,” I suddenly didn’t know what to do with myself.]
I only knew one thing: I need to live a new life without Ronan completely.
- me.
I struggled to sit up and looked around the house where there was barely anything left that belonged to me.
Every woman Ronan brought home was like a hurricane. Each one was crazy to kick me out so they could join New York’s elite Henstone family. There’s no doubt that each of them saw me as a threat in their side, wishing they could get rid of me.
And Ronan always encouraged them on those nights. He loved watching them humiliate me.[]
The first one–the business executive-“accidentally” broke the ceramic couple’s mugs we made together.
The second–a young actress–cut up the first scarf I ever knitted for him in college to use in their sex games.
The third–some artist–smashed our wedding photo with a hammer in the master bedroom, with my face beyond recognition. She called it “artistic expression.“[]
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By the 997th, 998th, 999th time, my heart had
grown
numb.
My stuff, our stuff together, kept disappearing from the house.
But traces of his one–night stands were everywhere.[]
By the 1000th time, even my wedding ring was gone.[]
I stared at the bare ring finger of my left hand, a hollow feeling in my chest.
Then I lit a fire and burned the one last thing of what had been mine in this house.
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Three Deatts Our
