He said another woman's name at the moment that should have been mine.
Then he told me I was insecure for being hurt.
Stone has never cheated. He'll tell you that. He'll tell you he works seventy-hour weeks because he's building something. That he comes home. That he provides.
What he won't tell you is where he left his attention.
I've spent ten years waiting for the version of my husband who actually sees me. The one who used to cross a room just to tell me something. The one who made me feel like the most interesting person alive.
That man gave himself to someone else. Not his body. His presence. His sharpness. The part of him that was actually awake.
And he handed me the remainder.
So I left. I took my suitcase and my ring off my finger and the secret I wasn't ready to share, and I went back to the life I'd had before him. The studio he never visited. The work he never asked about.
He found me anyway.
Now he keeps showing up. Fixing things I didn't ask him to fix. Learning things about me he should have known years ago. Saying the true thing without being asked.
I need to know if this is crisis performance or the man I married finally coming home.
Because some secrets can only stay hidden for so long.
And he still doesn’t know mine.
A devastating, high-angst marriage-in-crisis short read romance about the cost of emotional neglect, the pain of being unseen, and a husband who has to prove he still deserves the woman he loves. There is NO CHEATING in this book.
💔 Marriage in Crisis
💔 Billionaire Grovel
💔 Emotional Infidelity (MMC Oblivious)
💔 She Walks Away
💔 Second Chance
'' Dual POV
💔 High Angst
💔 HEA
Genre: Romance
Then he told me I was insecure for being hurt.
Stone has never cheated. He'll tell you that. He'll tell you he works seventy-hour weeks because he's building something. That he comes home. That he provides.
What he won't tell you is where he left his attention.
I've spent ten years waiting for the version of my husband who actually sees me. The one who used to cross a room just to tell me something. The one who made me feel like the most interesting person alive.
That man gave himself to someone else. Not his body. His presence. His sharpness. The part of him that was actually awake.
And he handed me the remainder.
So I left. I took my suitcase and my ring off my finger and the secret I wasn't ready to share, and I went back to the life I'd had before him. The studio he never visited. The work he never asked about.
He found me anyway.
Now he keeps showing up. Fixing things I didn't ask him to fix. Learning things about me he should have known years ago. Saying the true thing without being asked.
I need to know if this is crisis performance or the man I married finally coming home.
Because some secrets can only stay hidden for so long.
And he still doesn’t know mine.
A devastating, high-angst marriage-in-crisis short read romance about the cost of emotional neglect, the pain of being unseen, and a husband who has to prove he still deserves the woman he loves. There is NO CHEATING in this book.
💔 Marriage in Crisis
💔 Billionaire Grovel
💔 Emotional Infidelity (MMC Oblivious)
💔 She Walks Away
💔 Second Chance
'' Dual POV
💔 High Angst
💔 HEA
Genre: Romance
Used availability for Iris Aevyn's The Wife He Diminished