Our Marriage: A Twisted Revenge

My husband, Aiden, brought his mistress to a gala. She was carrying my clutch bag, a gift from him. He was laughing, daring me to make a scene.

But the ultimate cruelty wasn't the affair. It was when he brought up my kidnapping from ten years ago, using my deepest trauma as a weapon to publicly shame me.

His mistress, Ember, piled on, her voice dripping with false pity.

"Oh, Julia, I just can't imagine what you went through. Aiden told me everything. How you were… so damaged."