I Traded My Voice For Legs, Then He Betrayed Me

I traded my most precious gift—my singing voice—for a pair of legs, becoming the merman wife of the paranoid Victor Cadwell. For thousands of years, I stood by his side, only to discover he had been raising another—a female mermaid by the Azurebrook River.

Every night, I watched them entwined in the river’s embrace, their passion laid bare beneath the moonlight.

“Ah... be gentle,” she whimpered, her voice trembling with both pain and want. “I’ve already wounded your heart with the Soul Ember Stone. I can’t take it so rough...”