Chapter 4: Pretty Nobodies With No Power
They spoke about my future as though I were not sitting at the table.
Marjorie would oversee the household. Adrian would monitor my spending. I would stop consulting because, according to them, “real wives” did not need careers.
Later, Marjorie said, she would help raise our future children properly.
I smiled through every word.
Then she made her mistake.
“Girls like her always break eventually,” Marjorie told Adrian. “Pretty nobodies with no family influence.”
Adrian laughed. “She had some savings before marriage, but nothing significant.”
I looked directly at him.
“Is that what you think?”
His smile faded. “Don’t start.”
The truth was simple.
I had never depended on Adrian.
Years before meeting him, I had built a cybersecurity company under my mother’s surname and sold it through a trust worth millions. The house belonged to me. The accounts belonged to me. Even the charitable foundation Adrian loved bragging about was funded by my money.
And his own company’s largest silent investor?
That was connected to me too.
Adrian had not married weakness.
He had married the one woman he should never have tried to trap.
… Continue Reading ⬇️