My CEO, My Prison

My 30th birthday, and my wife, the brilliant tech CEO Izzy Hayes, was late-again.

Living in her opulent New York apartment, I, Ethan Cole, a once-promising surgeon, felt like a ghost, a consequence of a transactional marriage that saved my mother' s life five years ago and simultaneously crushed my own dreams.

Fed up with her absolute indifference, I finally decided to break free.

I accepted a prestigious surgical fellowship in Germany and served her divorce papers.

She signed them on the spot, without a second glance, mistaking them for adoption forms-a brutal testament to how little I…