From Neglected Wife to CEO’s Obsession novel Chapter 106

I cried for what felt like forever, until my stomach started to ache and twist from being so empty.

I ended up making myself a simple bowl of egg fried rice, then sat down at the table alone, taking small, slow bites. Tears just kept falling, landing in my bowl and making everything taste bitter and salty.

It had been days since I left home. Cindy hadn’t called. Remy only sent a few useless messages—nothing that actually meant anything, and he didn’t bother trying to find me. With all his connections in Georgia Bay, I knew he could track me down if he really wanted to.

Twenty-seven years old. Parents gone, no other family, a cheating husband, a daughter who’d turned away from me. Was there anyone more pathetic than me?

After just a few bites, I couldn’t eat anymore. I left half the rice and curled up on the sofa, hugging my knees. I couldn’t stop crying.

The wind picked up outside, and then rain started, soft and steady. I realized I’d left the balcony window open. I was just in thin pajamas, and the cold crept in, sharp and biting.

I shut the window and stood there for a moment, staring out at the rainy darkness and the blurred city lights in the distance. The loneliness was overwhelming, seeping into every part of me, making it hard to breathe.

I poured myself a glass of red wine, then another, and another. The room started to blur, but the loneliness just got worse, pressing down on me until I felt hollow.

I’d seen Remy’s betrayal with my own eyes. I knew I didn’t love him anymore, not really. But on a night like this, with nothing but rain and silence for company, my heart still ached so much it hurt to breathe.

Because I really had loved him. And I’d truly believed in him, in us, in the family we could have been.

Another night without sleep. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw my parents—gone forever—or Remy, holding Cindy and telling me he loved me.

I remembered Remy kissing my forehead in the garden, wrapping his arms around me while I cooked, building a snowman together on a snowy evening, pulling me under his jacket when it rained outside my office, both of us laughing and running through puddles.

Back then, his eyes had been full of love. How did it all go wrong? How could he say he loved me and then cheat like it meant nothing? How did we end up here?

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