While I Was Fighting For My Life, He Chose Her

As Lena bled on an operating table struggling for her life, her billionaire husband was eating candlelit dinner with another woman three blocks away. The gossip sites had the pictures up before the anaesthesia wore off. His office confirmed he'd received the emergency call. Confirmed. As if his wife haemorrhaging was a text that would get attended to at his leisure.

She lived through surgery.

She just didn't survive the woman she used to be.

Three years spent contorting and shrinking herself into a marriage with a bedrock foundation she never knew was rotten to the core.