Billionaire Begged Abandoned Ex-Wife Back

One of Ethan Sterling's closest friends got drunk and humiliated me. Called me a nobody orphan who married above her station, said I'd never be accepted by the Sterlings, that I wasn't fit to sit at their table. Ethan smashed a bottle over the man's head.

He announced in front of everyone that if anyone ever disrespected me again, he'd make them pay.

When I was pregnant and the morning sickness was so brutal I couldn't keep anything down, he went and scheduled a vasectomy. He didn't want me to suffer through another pregnancy.

This was a man who loved me like I was his whole world.

And yet — when I was lying on the operating table about to give birth, he was standing right in front of me with his arms around Iris, putting on a show for anyone watching.

Iris was the daughter of another old-money family and she'd donated bone marrow to save Ethan's mother's life.

The night before her own engagement, her fiance betrayed her, and the trauma wiped her memory clean. Now the only thing she knew for certain was that Ethan Sterling was her husband.

In her world, I was the homewrecker — the scheming woman using the bastard in her belly to force her husband into a divorce.

Ethan promised me it was all an act. Just repaying the debt for his mother's life. Once Iris recovered, he'd walk away from her immediately.

But when I picked up the surgical consent form for him to sign, and his first instinct was to pull Iris behind him — to shield her — I knew.

His heart had already drifted off course.

The fairy tale of a Cinderella marrying into high society was over. Time to wake up.

I was a nobody orphan from a humble background, but my husband, Ethan Sterling, was the heir to one of America's wealthiest old-money families.

He defied his entire family to marry me. But as I lay on the operating table, about to give birth, he stood before me, embracing Iris, putting on a show in front of everyone.

Because Iris donated bone marrow to save his mother's life. The night before her own engagement, her fiancé betrayed her, and the trauma wiped her memory clean. Now the only thing she knew for certain was that Ethan Sterling was her husband.

Ethan promised me it was all an act. Just repaying the debt for his mother's life. Once Iris recovered, he'd walk away from her immediately.

……

Ethan's lips parted, but for a long moment, no words came.

Iris peeked out from behind him, her eyes glittering.

"Honey, I only came to warn her — she can't use that baby as leverage against you. I've said what I needed to say. Let's go."

I watched them walk away hand in hand, fingers intertwined, and the pain in my chest was so sharp it felt like something was being carved out of me.

Then the pain went numb.