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The fire trapped my mother-in-law and me inside. I called my husband, Fire Captain Michael Grant, begging him to bring his crew. But he was too busy using a city fire truck to film a rain transition reel for his "friend" Olivia Stone. He snapped, "Emily Carter, that's enough. I know you went to your parents' today. You saw my reel with Olivia and got jealous again? How many times do I have to say it? Olivia and I are friends. "Do you have to turn everything into a drama? Now you're using my mother's life to threaten me?" I tried to explain. He hung up. My mother-in-law died from severe smoke inhalation. My thigh was burned. The baby I'd struggled so hard to conceive through IVF was gone. Meanwhile, Olivia posted: [Perks of having a fire captain friend for rain transition reels!] There she was, in a wedding dress, leaning on his arm under an umbrella. Behind them, his fire truck was spraying fake rain. Later, I filed for divorce. My heart was finally dead. When he learned the truth, it was already too late.