A Hundred Begs After Goodbye

After my divorce from Julian Rivers, he begged me to remarry him a hundred times. I refused every single one.

On the hundred and first time, I said yes.

Only because his dying mother guilted me into it, trading the favor of saving me from kidnappers three years ago for three months of a contract marriage.

When those three months ended, I should have walked away unscathed. Instead, he personally beat me half to death and threw me out of the house, just to make space for his returning first love.

He thought I would die in that snowy night.