# THE WIFE HE DESTROYED **By Elara Vance** *He chose his first love in front of the world. Now he must live with losing his wife.* Isabella Blackwood thought being Adrian Blackwood’s wife meant she would always have a place in his heart. She was wrong. As the powerful billionaire chairman of Blackwood Holdings, Adrian has everything money can buy. And as the woman who has loved him through two years of a marriage filled with quiet disappointments, Isabella has only ever wanted one thing from him: to be chosen. But then Victoria Sinclair returns. Adrian’s first love. The woman who once owned his heart. The woman he claims is nothing more than a part of his past—yet somehow, she always comes first. When Isabella discovers she is pregnant, she believes their unborn child might finally give Adrian a reason to put his family before the woman who keeps pulling him away. Instead, she learns a devastating truth: a man can know he is about to become a father and still make his wife feel utterly alone. At the Blackwood Foundation’s grandest gala, Adrian makes his cruelest choice yet. In front of powerful guests, flashing cameras, and the very people who once envied her marriage, he abandons his pregnant wife to stand beside Victoria. That night, Isabella stops begging to be loved. She walks away from the man she would have given everything for—and takes with her the one future he never imagined she would build without him. Only when the house grows silent, her side of the bed remains empty, and his wife’s absence becomes impossible to ignore does Adrian begin to understand what he has destroyed. Now he wants Isabella back. But regret cannot erase humiliation. Apologies cannot rebuild trust overnight. And the woman who once waited for him to choose her is finally learning to choose herself. **Adrian Blackwood may be a man who can buy the world, but can he win back the wife he destroyed?** Or will he realize too late that some women, once they stop loving you, never look back? *Some betrayals end a marriage. Others awaken a woman who will never settle for less again.*