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Chapter 016

Esther's POV

I was lying on the bed, my gaze fixed on the ceiling fan as my heart weighed down with a deep suffocating sadness. The weight of yesterday's tension and pressure pressed down on me.

I could have been in my marital home with my baby and my husband living our best lives.

My child could have been walking by now. My child would have started calling me ‘Mom’ or ‘mama’.

Maya took everything away from me. My husband, my happiness, my child and the trust I had in her. Michael foolishly fell for it.

Who knows, maybe Maya was already carrying Michael's child, or she had probably given birth.

“fuck!” it felt like someone stuck me in my chest, shattering the emotions I had so carefully built.

Yes! Someone stuck with me and it was Michael. I thought the love we shared was real. I thought he would investigate deeply before making the decision he made.

All my life I had been nothing more than an obedient wife to Michael, never wanting to trouble him. Enduring his excu
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