seemed to sleep. The skyline glittered with the lights of a thousand buildings, each one representing ambition, success, and hi
e, powerful-a man whose touch she had once believed to be her salvation. But over time, the cracks had begun to show. Slowly at first, then all at once. The late nights, the unexplaine
He underestimated her ability to wait, to watch, and to bide her time. The first instinct had been rage-wild, consuming fury. It had taken everything in her to s
-it had gone on long enough. Felix had no idea what was coming for him. She had spent mon
was. Felix. Her husband, the man who had broken her heart and shattered the trust she had so blindly pl
how to play the perfect husband when it suited him. He moved across the room toward her
smiled at the audacity of his question. Everything okay? She had known about his affair for months. She knew about the woman,
as though she hadn't just spent the last few hours replaying e
into a smirk. "Thinking about what?" he as
me had begun. She had waited so long for this moment, and now, she would take co
imply, her voice
ly as it had come. He stepped closer to her, his hand reaching out as if to touch her shoulder in a ge
between them to make him pause. He looked confuse
hing," she continued, her gaze u
but she held her ground. His eyes searched hers, but there
familiar routine. "I know things have been a little off lately, but we can fix thi
rayal. He thought he could smooth it over with a few sweet words, a few promises. But what he didn't know was that Mariana A
rds felt foreign on her tongue, yet they were the words she had held bac
ed. He tried to laugh it off, a nervous, hollow sound that di
hs, Felix. I've known about the late nights, the messages, the phone calls,
ment where Felix's mask cracked. He
serene calm. She had expected anger, but it wasn't anger that coursed throug
aid quietly. "And I'm not going t
raw, almost desperate vulnerability. He could see it in her eyes now-he had underestimated
carrying the weight of a decision that had been years
k, his face pale. "Yo
wn. "I am," she said, her voice cold. "You've lost
her, but it would also be the catalyst for her transformation. Felix had made the mistake of thinking she
un, and there was