The Sea Kept My Marriage Quietly

Synopsis

It was the seventh year of my marriage to Ethan when his first love, Celeste Dubois, returned to the country. My mother was left in a vegetative state after Celeste's botched surgery, and my brother, Dylan, was thrown into prison by Ethan himself for trying to seek justice for Mom. When I called the police, Ethan locked me up at home. He forced me to kneel and apologize to Celeste. After stripping me of all my dignity and destroying my family, Ethan said coldly, "Celeste is the woman I vowed to protect for life. The Miller family owes her, and you'll never be able to repay that debt." Heartbroken, I jumped into the sea. Three years later, I returned to the top as Shirley. When he knelt in a pool of blood, begging me to come back, I stepped coldly over his hand. "Ethan, your affection and your life are both too dirty for me to stomach. Get lost. Don't ever show your face to me again." Avery's POV A cold, late-autumn rain, mixed with hail, lashed against the gray steps of the New York Police Department. I was drenched, clutching a detention notice tightly in my hand. The edges of the paper were soft and pulpy from the rain, but the bold sentences on it were still glaring: "Suspected of forging evidence, commercial extortion." The person detained was my brother, Dylan Miller, a renowned lawyer in New York. And the one who had personally handed over the damning evidence to the police was my husband of seven years, Ethan Thorne, CEO of Thorne Group. I don't know how I drove to Thorne Group headquarters. As I pushed open the heavy door to the CEO's office on the top floor, even my breath was