On my twenty-first birthday, my father set two identical velvet boxes on the desk in his study and told me to choose one.
Whichever name I picked would belong to the man I married—and the one who would take over the family business.
One box was for Griffin Romano. The other was for Dante Romano.
The only person I had ever wanted was Griffin. Choosing Dante was never an option.
I dragged it out for three years. I fought. I begged. None of it mattered.
In the end, I bribed my father’s assistant to tell me I’d picked the right box. So I married Griffin.
Not long after the wedding, he dropped the act. Over the next ten years, all he gave me was indifference.
He rarely came home. He never touched me. I could have put a gun to his head, and he still wouldn’t have bothered to look at me.
My life was a miserable half-life, but I refused to let go.
Until the day I had an asthma attack and collapsed on the floor, gasping for air. He just stood there watching me, then kicked my only inhaler out of reach.
“I switched the boxes a long time ago,” he said, his voice cold.
“You were never going to get the one you wanted. You forced me to marry you, and because of that, Ava is gone. You should have died a long time ago.”
When I opened my eyes again, I was back in the study, holding one of the velvet boxes in my hand.
“Then I’ll choose Dante,” I said.
My Cruel Husband Let Me Die So I Married His Brother Chapter 04 “I came for my things.” I pulled out a lighter and set the curtains on fire. “But now that I’m here, I don’t think I’ll be needing them.” The flames surged up the fabric in an instant. Ava stared at the fire,
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My Cruel Husband Let Me Die So I Married His Brother Chapter 03 The gun in Griffin’s hand was the one I’d picked out for him myself, the day he first came to my house as an eight-year-old boy. He had carried it with him all these years. I never imagined that one day he
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My Cruel Husband Let Me Die So I Married His Brother Chapter 02 The friends behind him all froze. “So you already signed the papers? Congratulations! When’s the wedding?” “I told you. Griffin adores her. The second she was old enough, of course he was going to lock it down.” Growing up, Griffin really had
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My Cruel Husband Let Me Die So I Married His Brother Chapter 01 On my twenty-first birthday, my father set two identical velvet boxes on the desk in his study and told me to choose one. Whichever name I picked would belong to the man I married—and the one who would take over the family
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