Five Years of Silence The CEO's Discarded Wife

My name is Naomi Swanson. I'm the other half on Elijah Gilbert's marriage certificate, and the woman he accused of leveraging a debt to trap him into marriage.

For five years, I watched him drop everything for the one that got away. Again and again. On a night of torrential rain. Outside an operating room. At my father's funeral.

Until I signed the divorce papers and quietly disappeared from his world.

Then one night, he showed up like a man unhinged, pounding on my apartment door until it gave way, eyes bloodshot, voice cracking: "Naomi Swanson, what gives you the right to throw me away?"