She Faked Blindness To Win Me

April suddenly cornered me, her eyes red and rimmed with exhausted tears, demanding to know why I was constantly protecting Gemma. She reminded me, her voice cracking, that she was my wife.

In that exact moment, a bitter clarity washed over me. I finally understood why she had been so relentless about bringing Oliver—her chronically ill childhood sweetheart—into our home.

The untouchable first love. The ghost of what could have been. The damage they can inflict is legendary for a reason.

Just a few hours prior, Gemma had stood on my porch, soaked to the bone, missing the sight in one eye.