Leaving the Billionaire's Shadow

I woke up to the sterile silence of my master bedroom, 27 again.

This wasn' t a dream; it was my second chance to escape a life everyone else called a fairytale.

On my wife Olivia' s side of the king-sized bed, the sheets were undisturbed.

She was Olivia Hayes, the tech mogul, a name that carried weight.

To the outside world, I was Ethan Miller, the lucky architect married to a billionaire, but looking at our family photo, a chilling emptiness consumed me.

I saw a stranger with a forced smile standing next to a woman who was never there, and two children whose affection I' d lost to Liam…