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After My Husband Chose His Mistress Over Our Baby
After My Husband Chose His Mistress Over Our Baby

After My Husband Chose His Mistress Over Our Baby

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The silver needle slipped into the flesh just beneath Cameron’s collarbone. He didn't flinch. He never did. In the heavy, incense-choked air of our hidden ritual chamber, the only sound was my own ragged breathing. The new moon offered no light from the skylight above, leaving us bathed in the flickering, bruised glow of a single black candle. I pressed the tip of my thumb against the needle’s eye, letting a single, heavy bead of my blood slide down the silver shaft and into his skin. *Breathe,* I told myself, fighting the dizziness. I watched his left hand. The creeping, ash-gray necrosis that had begun to claim his fingertips two days ago slowly dissolved, replaced by the stolen, rosy hue of the living. Five years of this.

Chapter 1 of After My Husband Chose His Mistress Over Our Baby

The silver needle slipped into the flesh just beneath Cameron’s collarbone. He didn't flinch. He never did. In the heavy, incense-choked air of our hidden ritual chamber, the only sound was my own ragged breathing. The new moon offered no light from the skylight above, leaving us bathed in the flickering, bruised glow of a single black candle.

I pressed the tip of my thumb against the needle’s eye, letting a single, heavy bead of my blood slide down the silver shaft and into his skin.

*Breathe,* I told myself, fighting the dizziness.

I watched his left hand. The creeping, ash-gray necrosis that had begun to claim his fingertips two days ago slowly dissolved, replaced by the stolen, rosy hue of the living. Five years of this. Five years of stitching his soul to a corpse that didn't know it was dead, bound by a life-debt my mother died to forge.

Exhaustion hit me like a physical blow. My vision blurred, and the intricate, silvery scars webbing my hands throbbed with a dull ache. I sank back on my heels, my hands instinctively dropping to cradle my lower abdomen. Beneath the silk of my nightgown, a faint, impossible warmth pulsed in the dark.

"Safe," I whispered, tracing a protective ward over the flat plane of my stomach. "Grow strong, little spark." The miracle the elders said I could never have with a dead man.

The next morning, the sterile, fluorescent glare of the Brooks Empire boardroom washed out the last dregs of my magic. Cameron stood at the head of the mahogany table, immaculate in a bespoke Tom Ford suit. To the untrained eye, he was Manhattan’s golden boy—ruthless, vibrant, untouchable. But when I had adjusted his tie an hour earlier, his skin had felt like polished marble left out in the winter rain.

Marcus Sterling leaned back in his leather chair, a shark smelling blood in the water. "The board needs transparency, Cameron. There are whispers. Chronic illness. You've been... absent in your vigor lately. The market doesn't like ghosts."

Cameron’s knuckles whitened against the edge of the table. He didn't feel the pain of the wood biting into his skin. His gaze snapped to me, sitting silently in the corner chair reserved for the dutiful wife. There was no warmth in his eyes, only a resentful, suffocating pride.

"My health is flawless, Marcus," Cameron said, his voice a sharp, cutting whip. "If I’ve seemed distracted, it’s because of my wife’s obsessive, holistic hobbies."

The room’s attention pivoted to me. My chest tightened.

"Her monthly treatments," Cameron continued, a cruel sneer twisting his perfect mouth. "It’s superstitious, suffocating control. Teas, needles, and paranoia. I’ve indulged it to keep the peace, but I’m done being smothered. It ends today."

A low murmur rippled through the board members. I kept my face perfectly smooth, burying my nails into my palms. *If you stop the rituals, Cameron, you will rot before their eyes.* I swallowed the bitter truth, my silence my only shield.

That night, the penthouse felt like a tomb. I sat in the center of our bed, the vintage cloth Soul Poppet resting in my lap. The doll was the anchor, the physical manifestation of the blood-tie keeping Cameron tethered to the mortal coil.

At two in the morning, the poppet grew unnaturally hot.

I gasped, dropping it onto the duvet. A violent, artificial thud echoed in my own chest. *Thump. Thump.*

Impossible. Cameron didn't have a heartbeat.

I closed my eyes, letting the arcane bond pull my consciousness down the scarlet thread connecting us. Instantly, the sensory echo slammed into me. I tasted cheap, sugary liquor. I smelled the heavy, cloying smoke of hallucinogenic sage oil—a crude, street-level trick used to stimulate deadened nerve endings.

I felt a woman's presence through him. I felt her hands on his chest, her pulse racing against his sternum, the sage oil tricking his necrotizing brain into feeling a phantom heat.

Through the bond, Cameron’s thoughts bled into mine, loud and intoxicated. *Alive. She makes me feel alive.*

He believed it. He believed this club girl was the source of his sudden, roaring vitality, completely blind to the dark magic currently burning my veins to keep his flesh from liquefying.

The heavy click of a hotel room door echoed through the bond, followed by the rustle of sheets.

A tear slipped down my cheek, hot and stinging against my cold skin. I severed the sensory connection, throwing up a mental wall to block out the sickening twist of his betrayal. I curled onto my side in the empty, cavernous bed, wrapping my arms protectively around my stomach.

He was out there, defiling our marriage, chasing the illusion of life. And I was trapped here in the dark, paying the price for his breath.

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