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For six years of marriage, I sacrificed everything for my family.
Yet my husband, Arthur Smith, spent his days tending to another woman, while my children wished I would permanently vanish from their lives.
As my fingers brushed away the dust from my mother's Nobel Prize medal, a resolution crystallized within me: from this day forward, I would live for myself!
Husband? Don't need him. Children? Don't need them either.
Back in the laboratory, I stood at last on the podium everyone lo...

A shadow moved in the doorway, and my heart sank. I didn’t need to turn around to know who it was.
"Why?" Ace’s voice was low, gravelly, but it sliced through the quiet like a blade.
I exhaled slowly, not wanting to wake Liam. My hands rested on my knees as I stood, deliberately taking my time before facing him. "Why what?" I asked softly, though I already knew the answer.
His form filled the doorway, his presence almost suffocating. His jaw was tight, his shoulders tense. "Why didn’t you tel...