My Husband Celebrated Her Birthday While I Bled

Synopsis

On what should have been our fifth wedding anniversary, Ari Reynolds abandoned me in a foreign country to celebrate some college student’s birthday he was sponsoring. As I lay there, bleeding from three knife wounds after a sudden attack, he was sharing a cozy moment with her over a slice of spiced honey cake. After losing everything of value, I somehow dragged myself to the embassy, pleading with them to call Ari. His voice on the other end was ice-cold, dripping with mockery. “Why are you asking if she’s bored?! She’s playing games to get me there every day—if she wants to die, she should hurry up! Then I’ll deal with her corpse!” As the call ended, my heart hardened, turning to stone. Back in the States, the first thing I did was draft our divorce papers. *** When I trudged home, exhausted and broken, Ari was nowhere to be found. The remnants of spiced