Dear Husband, You can never ruin me again!

"His first love is back," I said. "I won't be needed here anymore."

My mother-in-law Eleanor narrowed her eyes. "You know you can't leave our family without punishment. The Severance. Kneeling on shattered porcelain until you bleed. Cry, and you leave with nothing."

For ten years, I was the perfect, invisible wife to Professor Alex Verstappen. I gave up my dreams and ghostwrote the brilliant research that built his elite academic empire. I put him back together when his first love, Lily, broke him. Now she's back, and he's secretly handing her my latest thesis.