Chapter 4My Son Died While He Welcomed Yours
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Rhys hung up. I was about to sign the transfer papers with the cemetery director.
He grabbed my wrist, his composure barely holding. “I told you, you are not taking Leo away.”
I stood perfectly still, my expression blank. “Then you can tell my son that yourself, in the grave.”
Rhys’s grip tightened, digging into my flesh. It hurt.
There was a time when this man would have been near tears if I scraped my knee. When I was giving birth to Leo, he was beside himself with fear and guilt, promising through sobs that he would never put me through that again, that he couldn’t bear to lose me.
He broke that promise, of course. Not a thousand days into our marriage, he was already rolling around in his penthouse office with Seraphina.
I fought. I screamed. I made a spectacle. All that got me was Seraphina’s ever-increasing encroachment on my life. With Rhys’s tacit permission, she eventually pushed me out of the company altogether.